Costa Rica fieldcourse 2014 – Harvestmen

Harvestmen (Opiliones) represent a diverse group of arachnids, with more than 6,500 species described worldwide; see here for a complete list. Everyone seems to be familiar with these animals which have an oval/round body and long-long thin legs; this why their English common name: ‘daddy-long-legs’. However, there are short-legged species as well. The harvestman fauna…

Systematics and biogeography of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Juliomys (Rodentia: Cricetidae): A test of diversification hypothesis using mitochondrial data

June, 2014

Araneae

PDF) Vertical stratification and effect of petiole and dry leaf size on arthropod feeding guilds in Cecropia pachystachya(Urticaceae)

June, 2014

July, 2015

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Araneae

June, 2014

June, 2014

Macroecology of parental care in arthropods: higher mortality risk leads to higher benefits of offspring protection in tropical climates - Santos - 2017 - Biological Reviews - Wiley Online Library

The fascinating Harvestmen of Costa Rica → Veragua Rainforest

First description of the male genitalia in a short-tailed whipscorpion (Arachnida: Schizomida), description of the female, and comments on pygidial glands and cuticular ultrastructure of Surazomus algodoal Ruiz & Valente, 2017

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