The Journal of Arachnology VOL. 53 · NO. 3 | 2025–2026

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The Journal of Arachnology VOL. 53 · NO. 3 | 2025–2026 The Journal of Arachnology A new issue is now available online at https://www.bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-arachnology/volume-53/issue-3 The table of contents for this issue is listed below. Click on the links below to view the abstract for each article, or click on the link above to read the table of contents online. If you wish to update your preferences or alerts, please sign into your account at https://bioone.org If you need any further help, please visit https://bioone.org and click on "help". Growth, development, and survival in the brown widow spider, Latrodectus geometricus, under different feeding regimes Jeffrey A. Harvey, Francesco Gerosa, Rieta Gols & Wilco C.E.P. Verberk The Journal of Arachnology Dec 2025 Vol. 53, No. 3: 154-161 https://www.bioone.org/journals/the-journal-of-arachnology/volume-53/issue-3/JoA-S-24-013/Growth-development-and-survival-in-the-brown-widow-spider-Latrodectus/10.1636/Jo...

Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia III: dry habitats of Cabo Verde Archipelago (São Vicente and Santo Antão)

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Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia III: dry habitats of Cabo Verde Archipelago (São Vicente and Santo Antão)

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With this publication, we contribute to the knowledge of the arachnofauna of Cabo Verde, focusing specifically on the Islands of Santo Antão and São Vicente. Data were obtained from samples collected as part of the project "Macaronesian Islands as a testing ground to assess biodiversity drivers at multiple scales" (FCT - MACDIV, 2015-2018). This project aimed to identify the factors influencing community assembly in Macaronesian islands. For the Cabo Verde Islands, we focused on dry habitats with the additional aim to revise the aracnofauna of this poorly-known fauna. We applied the COBRA (Conservation Oriented Biodiversity Rapid Assessment) sampling protocol in ten 50 m x 50 m dry shrub plots, with five on each of the two islands, using pitfall traps, sweep-netting and active search. Additional ad-hoc samples were also collected and reported.


Crespo LC, Cardoso P, Malumbres-Olarte J, Pereira F, Romeiras M, Ros-Prieto A, Rigal F, Borges PAV (2024) Standardised inventories of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Macaronesia III: dry habitats of Cabo Verde Archipelago (São Vicente and Santo Antão). Biodiversity Data Journal 12: e115464. https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.12.e115464