A DISTINCTIVE tiny colourful dancing spider, unsighted publicly for over two decades, has been discovered in the Millewa.

Macro photographer Garry Deale located a male specimen of a previously unidentified species of peacock spider near Wargan on November 22 last year.

The live specimen was sent to acarologist and arachnid enthusiast Jürgen Otto, who verified it as a match to an unnamed maratus...