Redescriptions of Neobisium (Blothrus) minutum (Tömösváry, 1882) and N. (B.) brevipes (Frivaldszky, 1865) are given, accompanied by new illustrations. Neobisium (B.) brevipes montanum is elevated to full species rank as N. (B.) montanum Beier, 1939. New records of N. (B.) minutum and N. (B.) brevipes from Romania are presented. A key to the members of the subgenus Blothrus occurring in the Carp...

The spider family Anapidae is reported from Laos for the first time. One new species is described: Pseudanapis namkhan n. sp. from Nam Khan Valley, Luang Prabang Province. Another species is recorded for the first time from Champasak Province, Laos and the following new synonymy is proposed: Sinanapis thaleri Ono 2009 = Sinanapis crassitarsus Wunderlich & Song 1995 n. syn. Morphological descrip...

Austropurcellia Juberthie 1988 is a genus of mite harvestmen previously known from numerous localities in the Wet Tropics of northern Queensland and from one locality in central Queensland, Australia. As a result of the current study, the genus is now also known from localities in far southeast Queensland. We describe three new species of Austropurcellia from museum lots: A. acuta sp. nov., A. ...

A new species of Cryptocellus Westwood, 1874 is described, based on males, females and all free-living immature stages. Cryptocellus muiraquitan sp. nov. from Juruti, Pará, Brazil, is a member of the foedus group of species and probably closely related to Cryptocellus icamiabas Tourinho & Azevedo, 2007, C. abaporu Bonaldo & Pinto-da-Rocha, 2003 and C. simonis Hansen & Sørensen, 1904. The new sp...

Most spiders are content to sit and wait for unsuspecting victims to blunder into their silken traps, but webs are only ever as good as the structures that secure them to the surfaces that support them. ‘This [attachment] is done with a special type of silk, called piriform’, says Jonas Wolff, from Macquarie University, Australia, adding that most spiders only produce this silk when they need t...

Two new species of ricinuleids of the genus Pseudocellus are described from Mexico: Pseudocellus cruzlopezi sp. nov. from Oaxaca, and Pseudocellus monjarazi sp. nov. from Chiapas. Both species are described from adult males and females. The first species is epigean and edaphomorphic, whereas the second is cavernicolous and troglomorphic. The number of known species of the genus Pseudocellus inc...

Curso de Pós-graduação em Ecologia e Laboratório de Interações Insetos-Plantas, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Museu de História Natural, Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Campinas, Departamento de Zoologia, Instituto de Biociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo and Instituto de Biologia, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Ub...

Viticulture is one of the oldest and most profitable forms agriculture; it also intensive farming systems. As cultivation threatens environment, there increasing interest in concept sustainability within wine industry, as well new business opportunities, customers begin to pay more attention environmental issues. Recognizing key role soil quality environmentally economically sustainable viticul...