Calponia harrisonfordi
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| Calponia harrisonfordi Platnick, 1993 |
Calponia harrisonfordi is a species of spider discovered in 1993 by the arachnologist Norman I. Platnick, and named after the film actor Harrison Ford to thank him for narrating a documentary for the London Museum of Natural History [1]. It is the only species of the genus Calponia.
C. harrisonfordi is found in the United States.
[edit] Footnotes
- ^ Platnick 1993
[edit] References
- Norman I. Platnick (1993). A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from California. American Museum Novitates 3063: 1–8.
- Platnick, Norman I. (2008): The world spider catalog, version 8.5. American Museum of Natural History.
