Want to see how our logo was drawn? Check out this (very) sped-up video showing part of the illustration process! Have you already guessed the spider genus depicted? 😄

Arachnid of the week is Troglochthonius doratodactylus Helversen, 1968

Find our materials at the 35th European Congress of Arachnology, which starts this Sunday in Zadar, Croatia! Our publisher Pensoft will proudly sponsor the event, offering a free publication in one of its journals to the winner of the Best Talk award.

Only five days left until the start of the 35th European Congress of Arachnology. We are very excited to host 175 participants from 41 countries across 5 continents among which 62 are students!  Ruđer Bošković Institute Sveučilište u Zadru (University of Zadar) 🕷️🕸️🦂

Happy to say the 35th ECA in Zadar has officially started!

Starting strong with our first plenary speaker: Miquel A. Arnedo 🕸️

Are Nemesiidae your thing? A lecture by Vera Opatova: Phylogenetic relationships and biogeographic origins of the spider family Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

Today we covered themes related to systematics & phylogenetics, evolutinary biology & genomics, and faunistics & distribution. From Nemesiidae, Salticidae and Theridiidae to scorpions and pseudoscorpions: our lecturers gave their best and gave us insight into their research.

Our plenary talk today: Unraveling Sexual Size Dimorphism in Spiders: Current Insights and Emerging Frontiers by Simona Kralj - Fišer

Symposium on “How arachnids experience their world: senses, Brain, development and behaviour” started with the lecture “Biological point - light displays scanning by the principal eyes of a jumping spider” by Massimo De Agro.

Spiky or smooth: How should widow spiders construct their egg sacs? By Valeria Arabesky

Today we’re going in deep 🕸️ Symposium on the science beneath the surface: cave arachnid ecology, diversity and evolution.