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Researchers have named three newly discovered types of jumping spiders after Taiwan and Chiayi County.
The discoveries are the result of more than eight years of research by Kun Shan University professor Ueng Yih-tsong (翁義聰) and his team in Chiayi County’s Aogu Wetlands (鰲鼓濕地).
For a year, starting in August 2013, the team comprised of Ueng and graduate students Chen Kuo-ming (陳國明) and Lin Tai-yu (林泰宇) conducted a survey of jumping spider populations in the Dongshih Township (東石) ecosystem.
Out of thousands of samples, the team discovered 15 species of jumping spider, three that had never been discovered before and six that