Posts Tagged: trapdoor spiders
Lacie Newton: Newly Published Article on Trapdoor Spiders, Including One Named for Barack Obama
UC Davis doctoral alumna Lacie Newton, formerly of the Jason Bond lab and now a postdoctoral...
This is the Barack Obama Trapdoor Spider, Aptostichus barackobamai, that Professor Jason Bond named and which Bond, Lacie Newton an other arachnologists study. This is a spider from Sonoma County. (Photo courtesy of Jason Bond)
This map, published in the journal, Evolution and Ecology, shows the locations of the three sibling trapdoor spiders.
Lacie Newton's Exit Seminar: Evolution and Speciation in a Trapdoor Spider Genus
UC Davis doctoral candidate Lacie Newton covered two chapters of her dissertation when she...
UC Davis doctoral candidate Lacie Newton delivering her exit seminar.
Rebecca Godwin's Heralded Revision of Trapdoor Spider Genus, Ummidia
Trapdoor spiders have long shared space with us, but few people are aware of their presence,...
A male Ummidia rongodwini (named for the husband of researcher Rebecca Godwin). It's found in the southeast, and this one is likely from the Carolinas. (Photo by Jason Bond)
This is a female Ummidia frankellerae, a new species discovered in Belize by UC Davis professor Jason Bond and named for UC Davis doctoral alumnus Fran Keller, a Folsom Lake College professor. Keller led the 2019 UC Bohart Museum Bioblitz to Belize. (Photo by Rebecca Godwin)
Name That Spider--And Did They Ever!
When UC Davis Professor Jason Bond discovered a new genus of trapdoor spiders in...
This is male of the species of a new genus of trapdoor spiders that UC Davis professor Jason Bond discovered in Monterey County. Bond proposes to name the genus, Cryptocteniza, part of which means “hidden or secret.” (Image by Jason Bond)
This is where UC Davis professor Jason Bond discovered a new genus of trapdoor spiders. (Illustrations by Jason Bond)
Searching the California Floristic Province for Trapdoor Spiders
A UC Davis scientist has just received a federal grant to study trapdoor spiders in California,...
A trapdoor spider, Aptostichus sp., one of the species that Jason Bond studies. (Photo by Jason Bond)