They are in Australia and are seven new species known as peacock spiders.
Unfortunatelythere are only 17 solitary species of the katipo spiders left in New Zealand, in 50 different areas!
Spiders are all relatives and when different spiders mate they get different species of spiders. that's how black widow spiders came to england.
There are 111 families and some 40,000 species of spiders. A link can be found below.
Yes. Australia has many native and introduced spiders, with several hundred species found in New South Wales alone.
adaptive radiation formed mant new land plant species
Adaptive radiation is the term for biodiversity that results from few ancestral species.
No there aren't any known Tarantula species found in New Zealand. Bio-Security claims that the introduction of large spiders will in fact ruin New Zealand's wonderful and rare wildlife.
speciation
Adaptive Radiation :)
Worldwide there are 37500 spiders. And did you know the daddy long legs is not a spider.
There are over 45,000 known species of spiders worldwide, belonging to the class Arachnida and the order Araneae. These species vary greatly in size, color, behavior, and habitat. New species are still being discovered and classified by arachnologists.