🪲Darwin's bark spider
Darwin's bark spider is an orb-weaver spider that produces the largest known orb webs, ranging from 0.09 to 2.8 square metres, with bridge lines spanning up to 25 metres (82 ft). The spider was discovered in Madagascar in the Andasibe-Mantadia National Park in 2009. Its silk is the toughest biological material ever studied. Its tensile strength is 1.6 GPa. The species was named in honour of the naturalist Charles Darwin on November 24, 2009—precisely 150 years after the publication of The Origin of Species.
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- kingdomAnimalia
- ›phylumArthropoda
- ›classArachnida
- ›orderAraneae
- ›familyAraneidae
- ›genusCaerostris
- ›speciesCaerostris darwini
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyAraneidae
- genusCaerostris
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- kingdomMetazoa
- phylumArthropoda
- subphylumChelicerata
- orderSpiders · Araneae
- suborderAraneomorphae
- superfamilyAraneoidea
- familyAraneidae
- genusCaerostris
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