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Parasitoid wasps that prey on spiders, subjugating them to lay eggs, changing behaviour and altering web spinning behaviour. Spectacular evolutionary diversity and intriguing biology in the Pimplinae from Keizo Takasuka Keito Takasuka and Gavin Broad doi.org/10.1163/187598…

Our research on podcast! Thanks Zoe for hosting us and give us the chance to explain our study. Nice to discuss about modern taxonomy challenges and opportunities.

34th European congress of Arachnology will be held in Rennes next August, be sure to follow 34th ECA - European Congress of Arachnology (2024) not to miss any info :) 🕷️🕸️ (did you see how cool is the logo? ⬇️)

Color variatios in Dolomedes sulfureus. No wonder it has quite a lot of synonymized names.

Check out our latest very neat paper on traits in european cave spiders 🕷️
It's a result of collaboration between many great people led by Stefano Mammola
Ruđer Bošković Institute

What a beauty! 😍

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New publication!

DNA barcoding insufficiently identifies European wild bees (Hymenoptera, Anthophila) due to undefined species diversity, genus-specific barcoding gaps and database errors

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Please RT: Interested in the conservation of subterranean biodiversity? Wanna work with a multidisciplinary team – DarCo? I've opened a postdoc with me at
MEG Verbania (20 months, extendable).

Deadline: 22 Mar 2024.

Feel free to contact me for details + info below

What a fantastic paper. Congratulations Kuang-Ping Yu !

New publication of PhD student Kuang-Ping Yu! New species of Dolomedes from Madagascar increase the species count from 1 to 5 (400%)! :)

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A new perspective was just published in Frontiers Arachnid Science, titled “Grand Challenges in arachnid genetics and biomaterials” by our chief editor Sean Blamires frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Mate search is complex for spiders. Can draglines of silk released by females inform males about the direction females wandered about?All in our latest #BEAS paper led by Michelle Beyer with Tomer Czaczkes Monika Eberhard 💙💛 Jonas Wolff Kardelen Özgün Uludağ & Maylis Leiller.
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More cool data out on a fascinating genus of fishing spider - #Dolomedes . Congrats Simona Kralj-Fišer and team!

'It's working as a spider web for catching spiders.'

Laura Segura Hernández (Laura Segura-Hdez) & colleagues were venturing through a rainforest when they came along a pirate spider — one about to unleash a hunting technique never before seen. Nebraska CAS Nebraska Bio Sci

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How well 🦠🍄🌱🦀🪼🪱🦟🦂🦋🐫🐑🦃🦜🐈‍⬛🐉🐿️🦨 represent the Earth's Tree of Life?

Since people were dying to know (sic!), we explored the comprehensiveness of available nature-related emojis. Read #OA in iScience journal:

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A new view of #SpeciesConcepts by Jeannette Whitton and me, clarifying time frames while unifying interbreeding, genealogy, and traits. A general-purpose species should be a reproductive community (bound by cohesive processes) viewed retrospectively (RRCC). doi.org/10.18061/bssb.…

In a new study on Dolomedes fimbriatus, we unveil intriguing sex differences in behavior: females show higher boldness, voracity, and attack prob. compared to males. Age and body mass play key roles, hinting at a feedback loop between assets and behavior.
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A new study clarifies the evolutionary tree for a broad group of spiders and shows the power of extracting genetic info from museum arthropod collections.

🔗 Marronoids: The (Mostly) Little Brown Spiders With a Big Story to Tell entomologytoday.org/2023/11/30/mar…