An international research team, including the Leibniz Institute for the Analysis of Biodiversity Change (LIB), has described a new species of spider from the Ecuadorian Amazon: Taczanowskia waska. The species is characterized by an extraordinary form of mimicry: It represents the first documented ca se in which a spider mimics the appearance of a parasitic fungus. The findings are published in the journal Zootaxa. ...read more read less