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[STEAM] A new, eyeless spider just dropped, and its namesake fittingly comes from Monster Hunter

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lover" will be very excited to hear about the newly discovered Otacilia khezu.

If there's one thing that can be said about those in the sciences that study animals, it's that they're nerds. Seriously, there's a
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, with a section dedicated to ones just named after games (shoutout to Dicranocentrus pikachu). And as spotted by a user on the
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, a brand new species of eyeless spider has just been discovered in China, and it's been named after a monster from the classic
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series. The Otacilia khezu, which you can see in detail
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(obvious arachnophobia warning if you do click through) is named after Monster Hunter's Khezu, a type of flying wyvern whose eyes have greatly receded, making it look like they are essentially eyeless.

You can easily see where this new spider gets its namesake from then, and the data journal linked above isn't shy about making note of its Monster Hunter origins (the Otacilia part is just the genus of araneomorph spiders, i.e., that part is for all the smarty pants out there who know big fancy ****** words like that). Someone also noticed on
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that the same person who named this particular spider has done this before with other organisms, including a couple of Jojo's Bizarre Adventure references (Funny Valentine and Gryo Zeppeli), as well as another Monster Hunter reference in the form of the genus "Rathalos," another classic monster from the series.

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