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A critically endangered spider, which hasn’t been seen in the UK for four decades, has been rediscovered on the Isle of Wight.

The National Trust’s Newtown National Nature Reserve hailed the discovery of the tiny orange-legged arachnid a “major conservation success”.

The team that found the Aulonia albimana, which was last recorded in the UK in 1985, have informally named the species the white-knuckled wolf spider.

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[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 5 months ago

I squashed one of these the other day