"novel TRAITS from generation to generation, affecting the overall makeup of the population and even leading to the emergence of new species."
"Junk" DNA does not cause any trait or have any outward expression of any kind; no proteins made, no skin color, nothing. (Not talking about blue eyes or some largely fitness-irrelevant trait --- talking about purely irrelevant DNA noise.)
"What are the characteristics that lead you say it's a new species?"
The article said it was "a new species from the Filistatidae family."
Looking in my posts for where I said anything about "junk" DNA .... nope, not there. I do see where *you* started talking about it though.