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Sinopoda scurion is a species of huntsman spider discovered in 2012 in a Laotian cave. It has a leg span of about 6 centimetres (2.4 in) and a body span of about 12 millimetres (0.47 in). It is the first recorded huntsman spider to lack eyes. [1] Due to its dark cave habitat, it has no requirement of vision for hunting. [2]
The Kauaʻi cave wolf spider (Adelocosa anops, the only species in the genus Adelocosa), also known to local residents as the blind spider, is only known to occur in a few caves in a lava flow with an area of 10.5 km 2 (4.1 sq mi) in the Kōloa–Poʻipū region of Kauaʻi, Hawaiian Islands, and only six populations are known to exist. [3]
The species is classified as a member of troglofauna, more precisely a troglobiont species, meaning such spiders are obligate cave-dwellers adapted to living in dark surroundings. [3] [4] Stalita taenaria is a species of a few European countries. [5] The spider is thought to be the first described species of true (eyeless [6]) cave spider in ...
The animal also had a “pinkish” belly and “elongated” body, researchers said.
Cicurina baronia is a rare species of spider in the family Cicurinidae known by the common name Robber Baron cave meshweaver. The species is endemic to the San Antonio, Texas area of the United States. It is one of nine species deemed the Bexar County Invertebrates, as all nine are found in similar cave environments in the central region of ...
Lygromma anops is one of only three known eyeless spiders in the superfamily Gnaphosoidea, and one of only two known troglobites (cave species). It is found in lava caves on Isla Santa Cruz, Galápagos.
Ciba is a genus of Caribbean wandering spiders first described in 2014. [2] As of April 2019 it contains only two species. [1] It is one of two species of eyeless spiders found in a Hispaniola cave. The non-expression of eyes and eye pigment in Ciba spiders is an energy-saving adaption in response to their dark cave habitat. [2]
Cicurina madla is a rare species of spider in the family Cicurinidae, [1] known by the common name Madla Cave meshweaver. It is endemic to Texas , United States, where it is known to originate from only eight or nine caves in Bexar County . [ 3 ]