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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 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 ...
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 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 ...
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]
Theridion strepitus is a blind cave spider found only on the ... W.A. (1987). A new eyeless, stridulating Theridion spider from caves in the Galapagos Islands ...
That work led them to the conclusion that this was a native fungus specific to indigenous cave-dwelling spider species. The fungus favours man-made habitats like culverts, tunnels and cellars.
Telemidae, also known as long-legged cave spiders, is a family of small haplogyne spiders. Most are cave dwelling spiders with six eyes, though some do not have any eyes at all. Most are cave dwelling spiders with six eyes, though some do not have any eyes at all.