Olfactory learning in two Amblypygi species Paraphrynus laevifrons and Phrynus pseudoparvulus

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  Olfactory learning in two Amblypygi species Paraphrynus laevifrons and Phrynus pseudoparvulus Abstract A wide diversity of arthropod taxa have demonstrated the capacity for learning, but most of our current understanding comes from only a select subset of this highly diverse clade, with most studies focusing on various insect groups. Amblypygids (Order Amblypygi, Class Arachnida), however, are emerging as a model group for studying sensory integration and the neural substrates associated with learning and memory, especially as it relates to navigation. These nocturnal creatures possess specialized sensory appendages and one of the largest and most complex mushroom bodies - the part of the arthropod brain associated with learning and memory - of any arthropod. Prior field studies on multiple species demonstrate sophisticated homing abilities while laboratory-based behavioral assays in  Phrynus marginemaculatus  confirm olfactory-based learning associated with a refuge. I...

ATYPUS AFFINIS EICHWALD, 1830 EN EL ÁREA CANTÁBRICA. CATÁLOGO DE LOS MYGALOMORPHAE (ARACHNIDA, ARANEAE) DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA E ISLAS BALEARES

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ATYPUS AFFINIS EICHWALD, 1830 EN EL ÁREA CANTÁBRICA. CATÁLOGO DE LOS MYGALOMORPHAE (ARACHNIDA, ARANEAE) DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA E ISLAS BALEARES

Abstract
Forty adult specimens of Atypus affinis were collected during one year in Asturias and Cantabria with pitfall traps emptied fortnightly. Specimens were collected in sampling places with different natural and managed plant formations. The captures show the spatial and temporal activity of the males of this species in the Cantabrian area. Their greatest activity was recorded in the first fortnight of December. Knowledge of mygalomorph spiders in the Iberian Peninsula is increasing with new faunal data, the description of new taxa, and the relocation of those already known, especially from the southeast of the Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands. These changes make it necessary to update the Ibero-Balearic catalogue of the infraorder Mygalomorphae. This catalogue includes 39 species from five families. The families Atypidae, Macrothelidae, and Theraphosidae have only one species each, the family Halonoproctidae has two and the family Nemesiidae has 34 in three genera: Amblyocarenum, with one species, Iberesia, with six species and Nemesia, with 27 species.

Izaskun, Merino-Sáinz & Ferrando, Selena & Anadón, Araceli. (2023). ATYPUS AFFINIS EICHWALD, 1830 EN EL ÁREA CANTÁBRICA. CATÁLOGO DE LOS MYGALOMORPHAE (ARACHNIDA, ARANEAE) DE LA PENÍNSULA IBÉRICA E ISLAS BALEARES. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. 43. 43-53. 

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