Jerzego sunillimaye – Jumping Spiders | UPSC – IAS

Jerzego sunillimaye – Jumping spiders and their Significance | UPSC – IAS

(New species of Arachnid found in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony)

In a study published on Saturday by Russian peer reviewed journal Arthropoda Selecta, a teamled by arachnologists Rajesh Sanap, Dr. John Caleb and biologist Anuradha Joglekar announced that they had discovered a new species of jumping spiders in the city’s Aarey Milk Colony. A new species of jumping spider has been discovered in Mumbai’s Aarey Colony.  It has been named after additional principal chief conservator of forest, Sunil Limaye, Jerzego sunillimaye

• first time found in 2016

Jumping spiders and their Significance

Spiders are Significant creatures as they are pest controllers. They are like the tigers of the microhabitat world. Pulling them out could cause ecological imbalance.

Jumping spiders comprise 13 percent of the global spider population. According to the researchers, the jumping spider family (Salticidae) is the most diverse spider family, with their world fauna consisting of 6,126 described species. A whole team of spider experts spent about three years to study the species. Their observations were published in the journal Arthropod Selecta.

In the World – 4,800 species

Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As at 1 February 2019, this family contained 636 described genera and 6115 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species.

While other species of jump­ing spiders such as the Lan­ gelurillus Onyx, Langeluril­ lus Lacteus – both described in 2017 – and Piranthus de­corus – recorded for the first time in 122 years in the area – have inhabited the Aarey Colony, more studies per­taining to their complete biology, habits and interac­tions with other species are yet to be carried out. While there are 4,800 species of spiders in the world, India alone accounts for 1,800 spider species.