Tags: Arachnid.
Calponia harrisonfordi is a species of spider discovered in 1993 by the arachnologist Norman I. Platnick and named after the film actor Harrison Ford to thank him for narrating a documentary for the Natural History Museum in London. It is the only species of the genus Calponia and is one of the most primitive members of the Caponiidae family.C. harrisonfordi is found in California in the United States. Unlike most members of its family C.