Six Months of Prompt Engineering: Building Scientific Altitudinal, Topographical, and Geological Visualizations for Spiders

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  Six Months of Prompt Engineering: Building Scientific Altitudinal, Topographical, and Geological Visualizations for Spiders By: Luis A. Roque,  Arácnido Taxonomy Six months ago, I set out on what seemed like a relatively straightforward goal: create better visual representations of where spiders live. What I quickly discovered was that producing scientifically meaningful ecological visualizations requires far more than simply asking artificial intelligence to draw a landscape. It requires learning how to communicate ecology, geology, geography, climate, and biodiversity in a language that AI can understand. Over the past six months, I have spent hundreds of hours developing, testing, refining, and rewriting prompts designed to generate publication-quality altitudinal, topographical, geological, and habitat-based visualizations for spiders, particularly tarantulas and other species whose distributions are closely tied to specific environmental conditions. What began as a curi...

First Record of Steatoda trianguloides Levy, 1991 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Spain

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First Record of Steatoda trianguloides Levy, 1991 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Spain

Abstract

This paper reports the first record of Steatoda trianguloides in Spain, extending its known distribution range. The study is complemented by a map showing the current records of the species. Additionally, an analysis of the dorsal patterns and genitalia of both male and female specimens is provided, including illustrations and photographs. 

Pablo Olivares1 Javier Sánchez-Álvarez2 & Miguel H. Martínez3, (2025). PRIMERA CITA DE STEATODA TRIANGULOIDES LEVY, 1991 (ARANEAE: THERIDIIDAE) PARA ESPAÑA. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología, nº 46 (30/06/2025): 94–96. Grupo Ibérico de Aracnología (S.E.A.). ISSN: 1576 - 9518.