New spiders named after Neil Gaiman, Peter Gabriel, and others

A recent study from the scientific journal ZooKeys has re-examined and reclassified 33 different kinds of trapdoor spiders of the Ummidia species. As the paper's authors explain:

Taxonomic work on New World Ummidia has been sparse aside from these original descriptions, the most recent of which are over half a century old.

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