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Climatic vulnerabilities and ecological preferences of soil invertebrates across biomes. [PDF]
Unlike plants and vertebrates, the ecological preferences, and potential vulnerabilities of soil invertebrates to environmental change, remain poorly understood in terrestrial ecosystems globally.
Abades, Sebastián+12 more
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A group of Amazonian harvestmen is recognized and described as Amazochroma gen. nov. This taxon includes Discocyrtus carvalhoi Mello-Leitão, 1941 (type species), the only species of Discocyrtus previously thought to occur in Amazonia, and Amazochroma ...
Rafael Carvalho, Adriano Kury
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The knowledge of spiders in the Eastern Cape province lags behind that of most other South African provinces. The Eastern Cape province is renowned for its conservation areas, as the largest part of the Albany Centre of Endemism falls within this ...
Anna S. Dippenaar-Schoeman+3 more
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The coevolution between telson morphology and venom glands in scorpions (Arachnida)
As in previous contributions to the JVATiTD, the aim of this note is to bring some general information on a particular aspect of the scorpion biology.
Wilson R. Lourenço
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The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman from Baltic amber [PDF]
The first fossil cyphophthalmid harvestman (Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) from Palaeogene (Eocene) Baltic amber is described. This is only the third fossil example of this basal harvestman lineage; the others being from the probably slightly younger ...
Dunlop, Jason A., Mitov, Plamen G.
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Spider diversity (Arachnida: Araneae) in Atlantic Forest areas at Pedra Branca State Park, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil [PDF]
BACKGROUND: There has never been any published work about the diversity of spiders in the city of Rio de Janeiro using analytical tools to measure diversity.
Baptista, Renner L. C.+2 more
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Chelicerates are a diverse group of arthropods, represented by such forms as predatory spiders and scorpions, parasitic ticks, humic detritivores, and marine sea spiders (pycnogonids) and horseshoe crabs.
J. Lozano-Fernandez+6 more
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Stenochrus portoricensis new to the Czech Republic (Schizomida, Hubbardiidae) [PDF]
A schizomid, Stenochrus portoricensis Chamberlin, 1922 (family Hubbardiidae), was collected in a greenhouse in Brno.
Harvey, Mark+2 more
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The phylogeny and evolution of the flashiest of the armored harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones).
Gonyleptoidea, largely restricted to the Neotropics, constitutes the most diverse superfamily of Opiliones and includes the largest and flashiest representatives of this arachnid order.
Ligia R. Benavides+2 more
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