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Cebrennus Rechenbergi
''Cebrennus rechenbergi'', also known as the Moroccan flic-flac spider and cartwheeling spider, is a species of huntsman spider indigenous to the sand dunes of the Erg Chebbi desert in Morocco. If provoked or threatened it can escape by doubling its normal walking speed using forward or backward flips similar to acrobatic flic-flac movements used by gymnasts. ''C. rechenbergi'' is the only spider known to use this unique form of rolling locomotion. The discovery of the Moroccan flic-flac spider has influenced biomimetic robot research, resulting in the development of an experimental robot based on the spider's motion.King, R.S. (2013). ''BiLBIQ: A Biologically Inspired Robot with Walking and Rolling Locomotion''. Biosystems and Biorobotics. 2. Springer, Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg. Etymology The spider is named after its discoverer, Ingo Rechenberg, bionics professor at the Technische Universität Berlin. Rechenberg may have first encountered the spider on a trip to Mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cebrennus Villosus
''Cebrennus'' is a genus of huntsman spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1880. It is considered a senior synonym of ''Cerbalopsis''. The Moroccan flic-flac spider (''C. rechenbergi''), that uses a flic-flac motion to escape threats, was first described in 2014. Species it contains nineteen species, found in Africa, Asia, on Malta, and in Spain: *''Cebrennus aethiopicus'' Simon, 1880 – Egypt, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Sudan, Djibouti, Saudi Arabia *''Cebrennus atlas'' Peter Jäger, Jäger, 2014 – Morocco *''Cebrennus castaneitarsis'' Simon, 1880 – Algeria to Israel *''Cebrennus concolor'' (Denis, 1947) – Egypt *''Cebrennus cultrifer'' Fage, 1921 – Algeria *''Cebrennus flagellatus'' Jäger, 2014 – Afghanistan *''Cebrennus intermedius'' Jäger, 2000 – Saudi Arabia *''Cebrennus kochi'' (Octavius Pickard-Cambridge, O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) – Syria, Israel *''Cebrennus laurae'' Jäger, 2014 – Canary Is. *''Cebrennus logunovi'' Jäger, 2000 – T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
