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Spider and harvestmen biodiversity in New Zealand horticultural ecosystems
New Zealand Journal of Zoology, Volume 52, Issue 3, Page 255-273, September 2025.ABSTRACT Spiders contribute to pest suppression in agroecosystems by direct and non‐direct consumption. They provide an ecosystem service which provides economic gains to horticultural growing systems, such as apples, wine grapes, and kiwifruit. Very few studies on spider biodiversity in cropping systems have been completed in New Zealand, and no ...
Nicola Sullivan +5 more
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HARVESTMEN AS COMMENSALS OF CRAB SPIDERS
Journal of Arachnology, 2001 Abstract Harvestmen Phalangium opilio regularly feed upon the carcasses of bees and moths discarded by crab spiders Misumena vatia Clerck 1757 hunting on flowers. I report one observation of a harvestman unsuccessfully attempting to secure a bee still being fed on by a crab spider.
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Discontinuous distributions in relict harvestmen (Opiliones, Arachnida)
Acta Arachnologica, 1977 Discontinuous distributions in the following relict harvestmen are studied: Sabacon (Troguloidea, Ischyropsalididae); Dendrolasma parvula (Troguloidea, Trogulidae); Crosbycus dasycnemus (Troguloidea, Nemastomatidae); Caddo agilis, C. pepperella (Caddinae), Acropsopilio boopis (Acropsopilioninae) (Caddoidea, Caddidae); Triaenonychidae (Travunoidea ...
Seisho SUZUKI +3 more
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Stem-inhabiting harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in a spruce, a mixed, and a beech stand in the Solling mountains [PDF]
, 2009 In the Solling mountains (Southern Lower Saxony, Germany) the fauna was sampled for one year with stem eclectors in adjacent spruce, mixed (spruce/beech), and beech stands. The tree age was more than 90 years.
Rothländer, Axel, Sührig, Alexander
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On Speleosiro argasiformis—a troglobitic Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida: Opiliones: Pettalidae) from Table Mountain, South Africa [PDF]
, 2013 We report the recent collection and observation of large numbers of specimens of the troglobitic harvestman Speleosiro argasiformis Lawrence 1931 in the Wynberg Cave system, Table Mountain, South Africa.
de Bivort, Benjamin Lovegren +3 more
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Report of harvestmen’s diet (Arachnida, Opiliones)
, 2021 Diferentes estudos sugerem que os Opiliones apresentam hábitos alimentares generalistas. Entretanto, considerando a diversidade de opiliões no Brasil, o conhecimento da dieta desse grupo é limitado. Neste estudo, apresentamos 10 registros de alimentação praticados por três espécies e quatro morfoespécies, com primeiras informações para Gonyleptes atrus.
Rubim, Luis Gustavo Talarico +3 more
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Zoologia (Curitiba), 2014 We describe Avima anitas sp. nov. based on material collected in the Brazilian state of Roraima, representing the first record of Agoristenidae in the State.
Willians Porto, Pío A. Colmenares
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Geological and ecological assessment of the exposure degree of the Zăton-Bulba karst system (Mehedinţi Plateau) to anthropogenic hazards: intrinsic vulnerability and biodiversity study [PDF]
, 2010 The Mehedinţi Plateau represents an area highly marked by the intensity of the karst processes and by the diversity of the exokarst and endokarst features.
Alin Tudorache +7 more
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Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2005 New data on the sex ratio of 16 populations of the endemic harvestman Megabunus lesserti Schenkel, 1927 in the northeastern Alps confirm the previously assumed pattern of geographic parthenogenesis.
Muster, Christoph +3 more
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