Photo: Supplied / Bryce McQuillan Photography
A native jumping spider boasting great eyesight and tiny genitalia has been discovered at a Rotorua forest that is being restored.
Rotorua Canopy Tours has been working to make the Dansey Scenic Reserve pest-free for more than a decade.
They are now enjoying the fruits of their labour, with new species being discovered as the old growth forest thrives.
Lincoln University PhD student Kate Curtis found the new species living under rimu bark while hunting for spiders in the Dansey Scenic Reserve in Rotorua over summer.
The forest was part of a years-long restoration project by Rotorua Canopy Tours, and she said it was
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