The city’s green lung — Aarey Milk Colony — has once again proven its ecological significance, this time by helping scientists unlock new details about a little-known group of jumping spiders. A recent study published in ‘Zootaxa’ described two new species of ground-dwelling jumping spiders from India, while also documenting, for the first time, the female forms of two species earlier discovered in Aarey.

Langelurillus onyx female