arachnids

• New species of spider named in honour of Sir David Attenborough
• Presentation made to Sir David Attenborough at the WA Museum
• Prethopalpus attenboroughi is only found on one island in Queensland

Discover which new species of creepy crawlies have been found lurking around the State’s South Coast in the next In the Wild West lecture at the Western Australian Museum – Albany on 16 and 17 August.

A rare species of trapdoor spider has been found by chance in the backyard of a Grass Valley home in Western Australia’s Wheatbelt region.