An international team of biologists has discovered a new genus of velvet spider and named it after Lou Reed, an American rock musician and songwriter. This is the velvet spider Loureedia annulipes from Tel Krayot, Israel. It belongs to a new genus named after American rock musician Lou Reed (Martin Forman) Velvet spiders include some of the most beautiful arachnids in Europe and some of the world’s most cooperative species. Social species can...
