Adrià Bellvert Bantí

• PhD
• PostDoc Position at Italian National Research Council

First record of Dolomedes plantarius, from a permanent pond in Catalonia, in north-eastern Spain.

Negotiations are underway on the new European Union (EU) Water Directive (1), which will regulate the protection and sustainable use of Europe’s water resources. However, the proposal foregoes environmental quality standards specifically tailored to sensitive groundwater species and fails to require biomonitoring for groundwater ecosystems. Despite...

The study of adaptive radiations has shed light on our current understanding of evolution. However, previous studies examining the mode in which species diversified, how diversification rates varied, and how ecological specialisation affected these processes have found few different results across different taxa and geographic and ecological system...

The study of adaptive radiations has shed light on our current understanding of evolution. However, previous studies examining the mode in which species diversified, how diversification rates varied, and how ecological specialization affected these processes have found few different results across different taxa and geographic and ecological system...

This paper reviews little-known species of the dysderid spider genera Dysdera Latreille, 1804, and Dysderella Dunin, 1992 based on specimens collected in the Caucasus, Middle East, and Central Asia. After combining molecular phylogeny of five mitochondrial and three nuclear genes with morphological evidence, Dysderella is proposed as a junior synon...

Supp. file 3. List of partition schemes and corresponding preferred evolutionary models used in the analyses.

Supp. file 1. Specimen and sequence information.

Supp. file 2. Supplementary figures. SFig. 1. Maximum likelihood tree inferred with bet partion scheme and models in IQTREE2. Numbers on nodes refer to ultrafast bootstrap values. SFig. 2. Majority rule consensus tree inferred with MrBayes with the best partion scheme and models as selected by PartionFinder. SFig. 3. Strict consensus tree of most p...

Natural selection plays a key role in deterministic evolution, as clearly illustrated by the multiple cases of repeated evolution of ecomorphological characters observed in adaptive radiations. Unlike most spiders, Dysdera species display a high variability of cheliceral morphologies, which has been suggested to reflect different levels of speciali...

Understanding what drives the existing phenotypic variability has been a major topic of interest for biologists for generations. However, the study of the phenotype may not be straightforward. Indeed, organisms may be interpreted as composite objects, comprised of different ecophenotypic traits, which are neither necessarily independent from each o...

Theraphosidae is the most diversified family of mygalomorph spiders, commonly known as tarantulas. Two genera inhabit the Mediterranean region: Chaetopelma in the east and Ischnocolus mostly in the western part of the Basin. Their phylogenetic position and the validity of some Ischnocolus species remain unclear. We implemented a multilocus target a...

We present the first record of Attulus saltator (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1868) for Spain. The single male was collected in Blanes, Catalonia. Additionally, we offer nine new records for the Spanish region of Galicia (province of Lugo) and seven for Catalonia (province of Girona), one of which is Cepheia longiseta (Simon, 1881), which represents the f...

Inferring the ecological and evolutionary processes underlying lineage and phenotypic diversification is of paramount importance to shed light on the origin of contemporary patterns of biological diversity. However, reconstructing phylogenetic relationships in recent evolutionary radiations represents a major challenge due to the frequent co-occurr...

Since the description in 1900 of the iconic Happy Face spider, Theridion grallator, Simon, along with nine relatives, the Theridion fauna of the Hawaiian Islands has remained unstudied. Here, we present a systematic revision of the Hawaiian Theridion, which includes the examination of abundant material collected during the last 50 years, with scann...

Here we report the first record of Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 from the Iberian Peninsula based on a male collected as part of a forensic entomology experiment in Ondara (Spain). Aquí presentamos el primer registro de Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 de la Península Ibérica a partir de un espécimen macho colectado durante un experimento de ent...

A small number of spiders was collected on the island of La Palma in the course of a taxonomic survey. As a result, we report several faunistic additions at different scales: Pelecopsis inedita (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875), is a first record from Macaro-nesia, Zelotes manzae (Strand, 1908), Haplodrassus dalmatensis (L. Koch, 1896), Xysticus canarie...

Despite being endemic to the south of the Iberian Peninsula, Macrothele calpeiana has been repeatedly reported far from its native range (e.g. northern Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland). Here, we confirm, using DNA barcode data, that the specimens collected in northern Catalonia, Majorca, and northern Italy are indeed recent introductions. Addi...

First record for the Iberian Peninsula of an adult male of Sintula retroversus, and a second record of the spider Hypomma cornutum for the Spanish fauna. No males of the latter had ever been recorded from the country. Primera cita de un macho de Sintula retroversus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) y confirmación de una población de Hy-pomma cornutum (B...