2nd Biospeleological Expedition – Pelješac 2019 – short report The 2nd Biospeleological Expedition - Pelješac 2019 was finished on May 1st, and now, after preliminary processing of the samples, we can announce the first results. Field research was carried out in three terms: November 13 - 21, 2018, March 25 - April 7, and April

Encyclopedia of caves, 3rd Edition The 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia of Caves was printed. On 1250 pages rich in illustrations and photographs it brings information and details on different aspects of cave exploration and cave knowledge. Everyone interested in geology, climatology, biology, hydrology, archeology, paleontology, or speleology can find a lot of interesting texts.

Two new subterranean gastropod species from Croatia Paladilhiopsis insularis and Plagigeyeria jalzici - their size is like the match head, they have a whitish shells and spend all their lives in groundwaters/caves. They are found only in Rudnica VI near Ogulin and probably their distribution would be limited to Rudnica VI as this cave is

Lecture "International Speleological Expedition Mt Sedom 2019, Israel" Salt, sand, and Sodom - caving below (every) sea level "International speleological expedition Mount Sedom 2019" From February 22nd to March 4th, 2019, the "Israel Cave Explorers Club" and the "Israel Cave Research Center" from the "Hebrew University of Jerusalem" from Israel, and the speleological club "Sofia"

The exhibition of cave-dwelling spiders “HiddenLife” in Barcelona If you plan to visit Barcelona this summer, we recommend you to visit the exhibition“HIDDENLIFE - Shedding light on the World's darkest biodiversity hotspot”, in which more than 100 endemic species of cave-dwelling spiders from Dinarides are presented. Martina Pavlek and Tin Rozman have prepared exhibition. The

Lecture „Evolution in the dark“ On Monday, June 3rd, on the premises of the Croatian Biospeleological society, Lomnička 3, Helena Bilandžija, PhD, will give a talk about the formation of a new cave biology research group at Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Department of Molecular Biology. She will present some of her previous research that led to

May 22 - International Day of Biodiversity and Nature Protection Day Today we want to remind you that the Dinarides are the world's hotspot of subterranean fauna biodiversity. Here is also a new article with the revision of the troglobiotic genus Zospeum (Gastropoda) with the description of five new species from the Dinarides.

Biospeleological research in the Kornati National Park This year we are exploring cave animals in the Kornati National Park. In 2017 and 2018 we conducted cave fauna inventory in 28 caves and pits and 3 wells on the Kornati islands. Altogether 74 taxa were recorded, with 13 taxa ecologically classified as troglobionts. As some of

Seven new species of subterranean beetles Six new species of subterranean beetles from the genus Thaumastocephalus are described from Croatia, and one more species from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Two species are described from Biokovo Mt. Here we highlight the species T. troglavi from the pit Sistem Velika-Velika. This pit was discovered and explored in 1985

Derossiella lukici – new species of subterranean beetles from Biokovo Mt in Croatia New species of subterranean beetle is described from the pit Biokovka, Biokovo Mt by our members Roman Lohaj and Teo Delić. This species is endemic to Biokovo Mt. Beside type locality, it is also found in the pit Pretnerova jama. Although the