Apr 25, 2022Catapulting to safetyIn the animal world, various mechanisms allow for extremely fast actions or reactions through storage of energy in elastic structures,...
Mar 11, 2022New obligate groundwater species of Asellus (Isopoda) from IranWith only 43 described stygobionts and only two isopod species the obligate groundwater fauna of Iran, a vast country with over 10% of...
Jan 31, 2022Another Origin of Extreme Sexual Size Dimorphism Discovered in Araneid SpidersCyphalonotus is a poorly studied, Old World araneid spider genus whose phylogenetic proximity remains unknown due to the paucity of...
Dec 23, 2021Improving taxonomy - example from arachnologyWe scrutinize spider taxonomy over the last decade, evaluating what type of data were used to delineate species, whether data were made...
Dec 12, 2021Jumping spider does not see its own sexually dimorphic red colorationExamining the role of color in mate choice without testing what colors the study animal is capable of seeing can lead to ill-posed...
Dec 2, 2021Biogeography of Long-Jawed SpidersDispersal ability can affect levels of gene flow thereby shaping species distributions and richness patterns. We focused on the...
Nov 18, 2021Iranian cave beetle diversity, description of two Duvalius speciesThrough field efforts and morphological examination, we describe two new Duvalius species from caves of Zagros Mts., Iran: the...