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

  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...

A New Species of the Genus Ozyptila Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Thomisidae) From Türkiye

 


A New Species of the Genus Ozyptila Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Thomisidae) From Türkiye

Abstract

In this article, Ozyptila baraki sp. n., a new species of the genus Ozyptila Simon, 1864, is described from Sivas province of Türkiye based on male sex. The differences between the new species and related species are discussed.

Danışman, T., Ayhan, M., & Coşar, İ. (2026). A New Species of the Genus Ozyptila Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Thomisidae) From Türkiye. Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Tarım Ve Doğa DergisiAdvanced Online Publication, 715-719. https://doi.org/10.18016/ksutarimdoga.vi.1721962