Setting out with a goal to describe over 100 new species of Australian Wishbone spiders, Dr. Jeremy Wilson, alongside Queensland Museum Network arachnologist, Dr. Michael Rix have traveled thousands of kilometers in eastern Australia to collect 136 specimens over the last six months.

Setting out with a goal to describe over 100 new species of Australian Wishbone spiders, Dr. Jeremy Wilson, alongside Queensland Museum Network arachnologist, Dr. Michael Rix have traveled thousands of kilometers in eastern Australia to collect 136 specimens over the last six months.

“All this information will be included in our revision of the eastern Australian wishbone spiders and will help us understand and protect them in the future.”

Wishbone spiders are burrowing spiders that live throughout dry and tropical regions of Australia.

They are called wishbone spiders because many of them have two entrances to their burrow—a main entry and a second hidden entrance that the spider uses as an escape chute.