• A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig

  • Nov 12 2024
  • Length: 45 mins
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A New Schizomid with Sean Birk Bek Craig

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  • What happens when a hymenopterist finds a mysterious arachnid in a Danish hothouse? Sean Birk Bek Craig was exploring the floor of a hothouse, also known as a greenhouse, when he came upon an interesting creature. “I could see that it was an arachnid when I looked up close,” he said, “but immediately just looking at it with my eyes… I was really perplexed about what the devil that was!” Short-tailed whip-scorpions, or members of the order Schizomida, are tiny arachnids who aren’t typically in Denmark, but with a lot of research, Sean concluded it had probably been accidentally imported on one of the tropical plants, possibly from Thailand. With a few ups and downs, Sean described it as his very first new species, and gave it a specific epithet of “serendipitus” after the unexpected way it came into his life. Sean’s paper “First records of the order Schizomida from tropical hothouses in Denmark: Stenochrus portoricensis and a new species of Bamazomus (Schizomida: Hubbardiidae)” is in issue 67 of Arachnology Letters. It can be found here: https://arages.de/en/1030963?tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Baction%5D=showDoi&tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Barticle%5D=1011&tx_psbpublicationmanagement_publicationmanagement_showdoi%5Bcontroller%5D=Article&cHash=e268cf69e617c9feaa929fb54fe289ad A transcript of this episode can be found here: Sean Birk Bek Craig - Transcript New Species: Bamazomus serendipitus Episode image credit: Sean Birk Bek Craig Find Sean on X/Twitter: @BekBirk Read the paper describing Materia boggildi: https://bioone.org/journals/arachnology/volume-19/issue-6/arac.2023.19.6.888/A-new-Masteria-Araneae--Dipluridae-from-tropical-hothouses-in/10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.888.short Read the paper that nearly made Sean’s new species a synonym: https://zookeys.pensoft.net/article/121754/ Read the paper describing a new Schizomid genus from Germany: https://arages.de/10.5431/aramit4906 Read Abrams’ paper “Too Hot to Handle”: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1055790319301824 Enjoy the World Schizomida Catalog: https://wac.nmbe.ch/order/schizomida/5 Read Matty’s thesis on biologists: https://research.ku.dk/search/result/?pure=en/publications/for-the-love-of-the-living(049e101d-c89d-472f-ba7a-f7a62e8337a4).html Be sure to follow New Species on Twitter (@PodcastSpecies) and Instagram (@NewSpeciesPodcast) and like the podcast page on Facebook (www.facebook.com/NewSpeciesPodcast) Music in this podcast is "No More (Instrumental)," by HaTom (https://fanlink.to/HaTom) If you have questions or feedback about this podcast, please e-mail us at NewSpeciesPodcast@gmail.com If you would like to support this podcast, please consider doing so at https://www.patreon.com/NewSpeciesPod
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