Out of the darkness: A new spider found deep within an Indiana cave

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Tagged Arachnida, arachnids, arachnology, Araneae, biodiversity, cave fauna, cave spiders, Indiana, new species, new spider, sheet weaver, spider diversity, spiders, Subterranean Biology, subterranean fauna, taxonomy, University of Indianapolis, weaver spiderLeave a comment

June 28, 2018

Spiders are ubiquitous within our forests, fields, and backyards. Although you may be used to seeing the beautiful yellow and black spiders of the genus Argiope in your garden, large ground-scurrying wolf spiders in your yard, or spindly cellar spiders in your basement, this new sheet-web-building spider is probably one you haven’t seen before. The […]

Saving the Underworld: Clarifying the subterranean fauna classification for improved conservation

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Tagged biodiversity, biospeleology, cave-dwelling, ecology, stygofauna, subterranean fauna, subterranean species, taxomyLeave a comment

March 2, 2017

Inevitably, many habitats, including the particularly vulnerable subterranean ones, will continue being erased from our planet as a result of human activities and interests. The challenge is to protect the ones that are the sole habitats to certain organisms, so that their species are safe from extinction. Hence, it is essential that the distribution of […]