Watch A Jumping Spider Dance To Impress A Prospective Mate And Name A Newly Discovered Species

“So the female wants to say no but he puts it in big bright letters ‘new and improved.’ He’s basically finding loopholes in her sensory system.”
 — University of British Columbia zoologist Wayne Madison explains the increasingly complex mating dance of the male jumping spider to The Last Word On Nothing’s Anne Casselman. Madison discovered a whole new species of jumping spider in Ecuador, and you can help name it!

“The spider is a small adult male, about 5mm long. Like all jumping spiders, he has four big eyes on the front of his face, and four smaller eyes on top. He’s mostly reddish brown except for his face, which has a big white band, and his jaws have striking diagonal yellowish stripes. No other known jumping spider has a face quite like this one.”

The first part of the name will be “Lapsias” (for some scientific reason that we have no control over.) But the second part can be one or two words long, and we, the people, can submit suggestions. I can’t decide between “Lapsias Lee Roth”

Or “Lapsias Apache”

Or “Lapsias Pointer Sister”

Or “Lapsias Mack Daddy” (Or “Lapsias Daddy Mack”)

Or “Lapsias Everlast”