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The Diversity of Subterranean Terrestrial Arthropods in Resava Cave (Eastern Serbia)

Diversity
The Balkan region is rich in limestone deposits, which have created one of the largest hotspots of subterranean biodiversity. This paper gives an overview of the diversity of subterranean terrestrial arthropods in Resava Cave in eastern Serbia. This cave
Nikola Vesović, Christo Deltshev, Plamen Mitov, Dragan Antić, Dalibor Z. Stojanović, Dejan V. Stojanović, Katarina Stojanović, Milenka Božanić, Aleksandra Ignjatović-Ćupina, Srećko Ćurčić   +9 more
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Three new species of Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae, Sicariidae) from Brazilian caves

European Journal of Taxonomy
Three new species of recluse spiders are described from Brazilian caves with both males and females. Loxosceles boqueirao Bertani & Gallão sp. nov. is found in the State of Bahia, in the Serra do Ramalho karst area, it belongs to the rufescens species ...
Rogério Bertani, Maria Elina Bichuette, Lívia Medeiros Cordeiro, Jonas Eduardo Gallão   +3 more
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Beronaphaenops paphlagonicus, a new anophthalmous genus and species of Trechini (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Turkey

ZooKeys, 2012
Beronaphaenops gen. n. paphlagonicus sp. n., a new remarkable, eyeless species of Trechini is described from Asian Turkey (type locality: cave Eşek Çukuru Mağarası 2, Milli Park Küre Dağlari, Pinarbasi District, Kastamonu Province).
Borislav Gueorguiev
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Richness and taxonomic distinctness of cave invertebrates from the northeastern state of Goiás, central Brazil: a vulnerable and singular area [PDF]

Subterranean Biology, 2019
The karst area of the northeastern state of Goiás comprises two main municipalities: São Domingos and Posse. São Domingos is inside the limits of a Full Protection Conservation Unit known as Parque Estadual de Terra Ronca (PETeR), where a high number of ...
Maria Elina Bichuette, Luiza Bertelli Simões, Tamires Zepon, Diego Monteiro von Schimonsky, Jonas Eduardo Gallão   +4 more
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Does the Cave Environment Limit Functional Diversity? Rethinking Patterns in Oniscidea Assemblages From a Neotropical Karst

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 1, January 2026.
Cave habitats strongly filter functional traits, constraining the diversity of terrestrial isopod communities along the epigean–hypogean gradient. Functional turnover decreases while richness differences increase in hypogean systems, reflecting uneven occupation of trait space rather than simple trait replacement.
Rafaela Bastos‐Pereira, Leila A. de Souza, Júlia B. Galo, Rafael C. Cardoso, Rodrigo L. Ferreira   +4 more
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Atrazine Transport through a Soil–Epikarst System

Journal of Environmental Quality, Volume 47, Issue 5, Page 1205-1213, September-October 2018., 2018
Row crop and livestock production contaminate soils and groundwater of the karst aquifers within south‐central Kentucky's Pennyroyal Plateau. Transport of atrazine from field application to the epikarstic drainage system beneath a field with active row‐crop farming was investigated. The Crumps Cave study site is a shallow autogenic drainage system with
R. N. Lerch, C. G. Groves, J. S. Polk, B. V. Miller, J. Shelley   +4 more
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Alone no more—Integrative taxonomy of New Zealand odd‐clawed spiders challenges the monotypy of Pianoa and Gradungula (Araneae: Gradungulidae)

Systematic Entomology, Volume 51, Issue 1, January‐March 2026.
Taxonomic revision of New Zealand Gradungulidae reveals unexpected northern South Island diversity through integrated molecular phylogenetics and targeted field sampling. Two new species formally described — Gradungula kahurangi sp. nov. and Pianoa civis sp. nov. — with revised male genitalia diagnoses for all three New Zealand genera.
Peter Michalik, Cor J. Vink, Martin J. Ramírez, Tim M. Dederichs, Phil J. Sirvid, Stephen M. Pawson, Danilo Harms   +6 more
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Phylogenetic evidence from freshwater crayfishes that cave adaptation is not an evolutionary dead‐end

Evolution, Volume 71, Issue 10, Page 2522-2532, October 2017., 2017
Abstract Caves are perceived as isolated, extreme habitats with a uniquely specialized biota, which long ago led to the idea that caves are “evolutionary dead‐ends.” This implies that cave‐adapted taxa may be doomed for extinction before they can diversify or transition to a more stable state.
David B. Stern, Jesse Breinholt, Carlos Pedraza‐Lara, Marilú López‐Mejía, Christopher L. Owen, Heather Bracken‐Grissom, James W. Fetzner Jr., Keith A. Crandall   +7 more
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Mexiterpes Sabinus, New Genus and New Species, a Mexican Troglobite (Diplopoda: Trichopetalidae)

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1963
This troglobitic milliped is of unusual interest because it is the type of a new genus and the first Mexican record of the family Trichopetalidae, which previously has been known from Nova Scotia to Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Colorado.
Nell B. Causey
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Pattern and Process: Evolution of Troglomorphy in the Cave-Planthoppers of Australia and Hawai’i ‒ Preliminary Observations (Insecta: Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Cixiidae)

Acta Carsologica, 2007
The evolution of troglobites comprises three distinct problems: cave colonization by an epigean ancestor, the evolution of troglomorphies, and intra-cave speciation.
Andreas Wessel, Petra Erbe, Hannelore Hoch   +2 more
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