Description of a new cave centipede from Velebit Mt., Croatia A scientific article describing a new species of troglophilic centipede Eupolybothrus liburnicus sp. n. has been published. Specimens were collected in caves of Velebit Mountain in Croatia. The article is part of an ongoing revision of the subfamily Ethopolyinae. Along with the description of the

A short report from the 1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017 The 1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017 was successfully held from June 17 to June 25 in the Biokovo Nature Park. The expedition was attended by 48 participants, including 43 biospeleologists and/or speleologists from 15 speleological associations, out of which 6 foreigners from Slovenia,

Visit us! We invite you to OPEN DOOR DAYS OF NGOs 2017. We'll present the work of the Croatian Biospeleological Society through its own publications, photographs, and presentation of the video material. Visitors will be able to look at specimens of cave animals under the magnifier with explanations from the experts and/or volunteers of the

Don't visit Vrlovka Cave - bats have a nursery there! Vrlovka cave is an internationally important underground site for bats under UNEP/EUROBATS Agreement and part of the Natura 2000 ecological network. Despite that fact - it is open for tourists in the most sensitive time for bats - when pregnant females are gathering and delivering

1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017, 2. circular Dear friends, enclosed please find the 2nd circular for the 1st Biospeleological Expedition – Biokovo 2017, which will last from 17th to 25th of June, 2017. Please forward this e-mail to all colleagues who might be interested in the Expedition. If the date of the Expedition does

The first European cave fish Subterranean biodiversity in Europe is spectacularly rich, with the Western Balkans being home to about 400 cave species, representing the highest number of species per area worldwide. Nonetheless, cave fish, which are the most commonly found vertebrates in underground habitats, have not been described in Europe so far. Two years

Krypyonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov., description of new genus and new species of spiders Member of Croatian Biospeleological Society Martina Pavlek published an article describing a new genus and a new species of spiders. You can read the article at the link.

A project of our member has been acknowledged as one of the 30 most representative projects of the EU program Marie Curie in the last 20 years A project of our member, Martina Pavlek, has been acknowledged as one of the 30 most representative projects of the EU program Marie Curie in the last 20

Elective general meeting Dear members and friends, we invite you to the Annual and elective general meeting of CBSS on Thursday, 23rd February 2017 at 19:00, at the address Savski kuti, Lomnička 3 in Zagreb (right next to the office of the CBSS: http://www.hbsd.hr/Kontakt.html).  

The media's interest in the underground richness of Krka National Park That the results presented in the lecture by the Croatian Biospeleological Society "Exploring underground invertebrate fauna in Šibenik-Knin County for monitoring methodology development" is significant not only for the scientific community but also for the general public, was confirmed by the BBC by publishing