Discoveries
Caught on film: Wild boar in Sint-Agatha-Rode
Trail cameras recorded some wild boars in Sint-Agatha-Rode. More info in Dutch. https://youtu.be/oJQ8r1IfV-s
Another new species from French Guiana
The discovery of an additional new species form the Roche-la-Virginie (French Guiana) has been published in the journal Zootaxa. The new species is a spider that is adapted to the microhabitat created by the leaves of Bromelias, hence its name…
BINCO describes a new species of opilionid
In 2008 BINCO carried out a biodiversity survey of the inselberg ‘Savanna Roche Virginie’ in French Guiana. We discovered several invertebrate species new to science. One of the species we describe is a cypthothalmid, a small litter inhabiting…
Critically endangered spider found in ‘Haachts broek’
Last summer we discovered an endangered spider In the ‘Haachts broek’ in Haacht . The spider has been named Drassyllus praeficus. This spider belongs to the family of the hunting ground spiders. Most members of this family are benthic creatures and…
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During an inventory of moths at the ‘Hooiberg’ (Haacht, Belgium) we spotted this male Purseweb spider (Atypus affinis). This protected species belongs to the Mygalomorphae, a group that also includes the tarantulas. Only two Mygalomorphae species…
