In
2004 I received
in loan
this magnificent piece of Dominican amber from Jörg Wunderlich.
The
spider
inside is the first representative known of the genus Micropholcus
in amber, dating back about 23 million years. I tried to find more
specimens
in amber during a trip to the Dominican
Republic, without success. What I did find were several new
species
of extant Micropholcus species, and these are described,
together
with the fossil species, in this paper. |