Described in a paper published in Nature Ecology & Evolution by an international team of researchers, the new creature, named Chimerarachne yingi, shares traits with a modern spider, like fangs,
male pedipalps, four walking legs and silk - producing spinnerets.
Digital dissection shows that two horseshoe crab appendages — the pushing leg and
the male pedipalp — each have one more muscle than had been thought, according to a study published Feb..
Not exact matches
All
male spiders have a pair of sex organs called
pedipalps, held like two boxing gloves in front of their face, but in this particular daddy - long - legs spider the right
pedipalp was twice as large as the left.
(A) shows the final approach of the
male before he inserts his
pedipalp (the sperm delivery organ) into the genital opening of the female (B).
The female bites the abdomen of the
male while the
pedipalp is still attached (C).