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This category is for articles related to spiders which have adapted to live within the ecological niche of caves. Pages in category "Cave spiders" The following 43 pages are in this category, out of 43 total.
Cave spiders feed on smaller invertebrates, most frequently myriapods and slugs. [6] The European cave spider is not dangerous to humans and although (in common with nearly all spiders) they have venom, its effect on large mammals is negligible. They are unlikely to bite if carefully handled but if sufficiently provoked they are capable of ...
It has been found on two species of spider occupying different types of environments in the cave systems. Both Metellina merianae (Tetragnathidae: Araneae) and Meta menardi are reclusive, orb or ...
Images, sent by the BBC to the senior author, suggested that this was a novel species of the genus Gibellula and, moreover, that the reclusive cave-spider host – subsequently, identified as the orb-weaving spider Metellina merianae (Tetragnathidae: Araneae) – had moved to an exposed situation before death, indicating a behavioural change.
In the caves, researchers collected juvenile and adult spiders, some bearing egg sacs, the study said. The specimens turned out to be a new species of cellar spider known as Priscula pastaza.
The spiders were found in caves in three different Chinese provinces, the researchers said. While the spiders resembled another genus in the spider family Gnaphosidae, they had a median apophysis ...
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 spiders were first collected in 2010 by Geo Graening, Neil Marchington, Ron Davis and Daniel Snyder, cave conservationists from the Western Cave Conservancy. [2] They were described in 2012 by a research team consisting of arachnologists Charles Griswold, Tracy Audisio and Joel Ledford of the California Academy of Sciences.