Bizarre Pelican Spiders Found

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Smithsonian Article: https://www.si.edu/stories/newly-discovered-pelican-spiders-madagascar

Research article by Hannah Wood and Nikolaj Scharff: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/20222/element/2/128//

Spider photos and thumbnail photo from : Wood HM, Scharff N (2018) A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1-96. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.727.20222

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