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Han, G. X. & Zhu, M. S. (2010a). A new species of the genus Araneus (Araneae: Araneidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica 58(2, 2009): 67-68. doi:10.2476/asjaa.58.67
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Alegre, B., Meneses, O. & Aguilar, P. G. (1977). Peligrosidad de diez arañas comunes en la costa central Peruana. Revista Peruana de Entomología 20(1): 63-66.
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Mikhailov, K. G. & Marusik, Y. M. (1996). Spiders of the north-east of the USSR. Families Clubionidae, Zoridae, Liocranidae and Gnaphosidae (genus Micaria) (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Entomological Studies in the North-East of the USSR. USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of Biological Problems of the North, Vladivostok, pp. 90-113. (dated "1991," first distributed March, 1996)
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Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2012a). Australian assassins, part II: A review of the new assassin spider genus Zephyrarchaea (Araneae, Archaeidae) from southern Australia. ZooKeys 191: 1-62. doi:10.3897/zookeys.191.3070
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Brescovit, A. D. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2011). Two new species of Antillorena Jocqué from northeastern Brazil (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 2973: 57-65. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2973.1.2
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Millidge, A. F. & Locket, G. H. (1952). New and rare British spiders. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 163(1): 59-78. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1952.tb00641.x
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Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1962). The identity of Entelecara erythropus (Westring) and E. media Kulcz. (Araneae). Annals and Magazine of Natural History (13) 5(55): 433-434. doi:10.1080/00222936208651268
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Millidge, A. F. & Locket, G. H. (1947). On new and rare British spiders. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 158(2): 110-118. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.1947.tb00456.x
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Nolasco, G. S. & Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2022). Four new species of the spider genus Physocyclus Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Mexico, with updated taxonomic identification keys. European Journal of Taxonomy 813: 173-206. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.813.1739
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Pravalikha, G. B., Srinivasulu, C. & Srinivasulu, B. (2014). New species of genus Hersilia Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Hersiliidae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 6(3): 5553-5557. doi:10.11609/JoTT.o3723.5553-7
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Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1951). British spiders. Vol. I. Ray Society, London, 310 pp.
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Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2007c). Onofre, a new genus of jumping spider from Brazil (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(2): 77-80. doi:10.13156/arac.2007.14.2.77
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Vöcking, O., Uhl, G. & Michalik, P. (2013). Sperm dynamics in spiders (Araneae): ultrastructural analysis of the sperm activation process in the garden spider Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772). PLoS One 8(9, e72660): 1-7. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0072660
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Pupin, G. B. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). The alien synanthropic Salticidae in Brazil (Araneae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 113(e2023002): 1-16. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2023002
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Azarkina, G. N. & Logunov, D. V. (2006). Taxonomic notes on nine Aelurillus species of the western Mediterranean (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13(7): 233-248.
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Alayón García, G. & Platnick, N. I. (1993). A review of the Cuban ground spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Araneae, Gnaphosoidea). American Museum Novitates 3062: 1-9.
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Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2023). Further notes on the Afrotropical genus Festucula Simon, 1901 (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 1185: 285-308. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1185.110365
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Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2013). Redescriptions of poorly known species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Namibia. Zootaxa 3686(2): 165-182. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3686.2.3
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Kulkarni, S., Wood, H. M. & Hormiga, G. (2023). Advances in the reconstruction of the spider tree of life: a roadmap for spider systematics and comparative studies. Cladistics 39(6): 479-532. doi:10.1111/cla.12557
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Sankaran, P. M., Kadam, G. & Tripathi, R. (2024). First records of Medmassa Simon, 1887 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 5433(1): 133-143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5433.1.6
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Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2024). A new species of pelican spider (Araneae: Archaeidae) from the Whitsunday hinterland of central-eastern Queensland. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 64: 1-7. doi:10.54102/ajt.8sf6i
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Edwards, G. B., Rinaldi, I. M. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2005). A review of some South American species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) described by Mello-Leitão from Brasil, with resolution of the genus Asaphobelis. Biota Neotropica 5(2): 1-31. Link
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Sánchez-Vega, U., Villegas-Guzmán, G. A. & Durán-Barrón, C. G. (2019). Dos nuevos registros de terídidos (Araneae: Theridiidae) para San Luis Potosí y el Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 163-165.
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Dimitrov, D., Lopardo, L., Giribet, G., Arnedo, M. A., Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2012). Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 279: 1341-1350 & Suppl. 1-5. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011
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Kallal, R. J., Dimitrov, D., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Monophyly, taxon sampling, and the nature of ranks in the classification of orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). Systematic Biology 69(2): 401-411. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz043
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Bloom, T., Binford, G., Esposito, L. A., Alayón García, G., Peterson, I., Nishida, A., Loubet-Senear, K. & Agnarsson, I. (2014). Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave. Journal of Arachnology 42(2): 148-154. doi:10.1636/k13-84.1
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Babu, N., Tripathi, R., Sampathkumar, M., Caleb, J. T. D., Prasad, G., Mohanasundaram, M., Mahendiran, G. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). Two new species of Afraflacilla Berland et Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 32(4): 459-465. doi:10.15298/arthsel.32.4.10
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Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D., Rix, A. G., Wojcieszek, A. M., Huey, J. A. & Harvey, M. S. (2019). Population demography and biology of a new species of giant spiny trapdoor spider (Araneae: Idiopidae: Euoplos) from inland Queensland: developing a ‘slow science’ study system to address a conservation crisis. Austral Entomology 58(2): 282-297. doi:10.1111/aen.12367
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Tang, G. M., Song, D. X. & Zhang, F. (2001a). On one new species and one new record of the genus Gnaphosa from China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 10(2): 15-17.
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Tang, G. M., Song, D. X. & Zhang, F. (2001b). On one new species of the genus Drassodes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China. Acta Zoologica Sinica 47(Suppl.): 59-61.
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Barrientos, J. A., Ribera, C. & Pons, G. X. (2002). Nuevos datos sobre los agelénidos de las islas Baleares (Araneae: Agelenidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 6: 85-90.
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Huber, B. A., Pérez G., A. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2005). Leptopholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) in continental America: rare relicts in low precipitation areas. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 53: 99-107.
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Tang, G. M., Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (2005). A review of the spiders of the genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Inner Mongolia, China. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 81: 76-93.
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Tang, G., Yin, C. M. & Peng, X. J. (2006b). A new name of Theridion fruticum Tang, Yin et Peng, 2005 (Araneae, Theridiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 31: 922.
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Rix, M. G., Roberts, J. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2009). The spider families Synotaxidae and Malkaridae (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneoidea) in Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 295-304. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.295-304
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Zheng, G., Marusik, Y. M. & Li, S. Q. (2009). Discovery of Stenochilidae Thorell, 1873 (Araneae) in China, with description of a new species from Yunnan. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 116: 303-311. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.79498
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Yang, Z. Z., Ma, Y. Y. & Zhang, Y. G. (2011). Description of a new species of the genus Clubiona from Cangshan Mountain of Yunnan Province (Araneae: Clubionidae). Journal of Dali University 10(4): 48-50.
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Azarkina, G. N., Marusik, Y. M. & Antonenko, T. V. (2015). First description of the male of Alopecosa azsheganovae Esyunin, 1996 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4033(2): 265-269. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4033.2.5
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Han, G. X., Dong, X. Y. & Zhang, F. (2015). Redescription of Lepthyphantes cultellifer (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with the first description of the female. Acta Arachnologica 64(1): 45-48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.45
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Baba, Y. G., Suguro, T., Naya, N. & Yamauchi, T. (2016). A gynandromorph of the funnel-web spider Allagelena opulenta (Araneae: Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica 65(1): 11-13. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.11
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Guo, X., Yu, Z. G. & Chen, H. M. (2016). One new spider species of genus Leptonetela (Araneae: Leptonetidae) from cave in Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(3): 395-399. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20150274
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Phartale, N. N., Kadam, J. A. & Gyananath, G. (2016). First report of Geolycosa charitonovi (Mcheidze, 1997) (Araneae: Lycosidae) from India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(5): 937-939.
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Zhang, X. Q., Zhao, Z., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2016b). A further study of the spider genus Notiocoelotes (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Hainan Island, China. ZooKeys 601: 75-87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.7698
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Baba, Y. G., Ohno, S., Rie, U.-H. & Tanikawa, A. (2017). A new record of the wall spider, Oecobius marathaus (Araneae: Oecobiidae), from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 17-18. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.17
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Costa, E. L. S. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2017). On four new species of the jumping spider genus Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 from South America (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4329(6): 584-593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.4
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Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Kunt, K. B. & Kiliç, G. (2017b). First faunistic record of Tegenaria vankeerorum Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey with description of unknown female. Biological Diversity and Conservation 10(3): 178-183.
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Zhang, X. Q., Zhao, Z., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2017). A survey of five Pireneitega species (Agelenidae, Coelotinae) from China. ZooKeys 663: 45-64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.663.11356
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Huang, G. Q., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). A new species of the genus Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841 (Araneae: Hahniidae) frim Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 37(4): 456-460. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20170392
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Monga, K., Sadana, G. L. & Singh, J. P. (1988). A new species of Heteropoda Latreille (Araneida: Heteropodidae). Haryana Agricultural University Journal of Research 18: 266-268.
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Brescovit, A. D., Bonaldo, A. B. & Mikhailov, K. G. (1994). Revalidation of the spider genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Aranei Clubionidae). Arthropoda Selecta 3(1-2): 35-38.
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