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Ma, N., Gong, D., Mao, A., Zhao, Y., Jiao, X. G., Liu, J., Peng, Y. & Zhang, S. C. (2023a). Traumatic mating causes strict monandry in a wolf spider. Zoological Research 44(1): 101-104. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2022.336
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Lucas, S. M., Filho, H. M. O. G., Paula, F. d. S., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2011). Redescription and new distribution records of Acanthoscurria natalensis (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 28: 525-530.
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Kim, S. T., Yoo, J. S., Lee, S. Y., Lee, J. H., Choi, Y. G. & Lim, J. W. (2014). Description of one new and one unrecorded spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Journal of Forest and Environmental Science 30(4): 378-382. doi:10.7747/JFES.2014.30.4.378
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Feng, P., Zhang, Y., Wu, X. M., Ma, Y. Y., Yang, T. B., Li, C. G. & Yang, Z. Z. (2016). Four new species of Psechrus from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Psechridae). Zootaxa 4088(2): 177-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4088.2.2
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Caleb, J. T. D., Pravalikha, G. B., Johnson, B. E., Manyu, M., Mungkung, S. & Mathai, M. T. (2017a). Hersilia aadi Pravalikha, Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu, 2014 a junior synonym of Hersilia savignyi Lucas, 1836 (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Zootaxa 4254(3): 396-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.11
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Surdo, S., Romano, M., Barraco, L., Altadonna, G., Ditta, A., Barbera, A., Zafarana, M. A., Dentici, A. & Morin, L. (2020). Sicilian naturalistic news: 3 Hermetia illucens; 4 Ancylolomia tripolitella; 5 Gavia immer; 6 Bucanetes githagineus; 7 Clubonia terrestris. Naturalista Siciliano (4) 44(1-2): 241-246. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4095366
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Cargnelutti, F., Bollatti, F., Izquierdo, M. A., Castanheira, P. de S., Baptista, R. L. C., Barrantes, G. & Aisenberg, A. (2022). Together but not intertwined: differences in sexual behavior between two sympatric and synchronic spider species, including one new synonymy (Araneae: Tetragnathidae: Tetragnatha). Journal of Arachnology 50(1): 67-80. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-21-006
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Bidegaray-Batista, L., Sánchez-Gracia, A., Santulli, G., Maiorano, L., Guisan, A., Vogler, A. P. & Arnedo, M. A. (2016). Imprints of multiple glacial refugia in the Pyrenees revealed by phylogeography and palaeodistribution modelling of an endemic spider. Molecular Ecology 25(9): 2046-2064 & appendices. doi:10.1111/mec.13585
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Lenzini, L., Castellucci, F., Poso, M., Kulczycki, A., Simeon, E., Greco, G., Piccinini, A. & Legittimo, C. M. (2022). First records of Anagraphis ochracea (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) for continental Italy and Sicily with new observations on its myrmecophilous lifestyle. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 83-92. doi:10.30963/aramit6410
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Maddison, W. P., Ruiz, G. R. S., Ng, P. Y. C., Vishnudas, E. H. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). Kelawakaju gen. nov., a new Asian lineage of marpissine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Marpissina). ZooKeys 1130: 79-102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1130.87730
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Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Valdez-Mondragón, A., Král, J., Ávila Herrera, I. M. & Carvalho, L. S. (2023c). Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 880: 1-89. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.880.2173
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Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H., Choi, D. Y., Park, S. J., Baek, M. J. & Kim, S. K. (2024). Nine new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae: Pholcidae) from South Korea. Zootaxa 5432(2): 179-212. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5432.2.3
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El-Hennawy, H. K., Medany, D. M., Orabi, G. M., Semida, F. M. & Abdel-Dayem, M. S. (2012). The first record of Halodromus patellidens (Levy, 1977) (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Egypt. Serket 13: 182-186.
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Agnarsson, I., Jencik, B. B., Veve, G. M., Hanitriniaina, S., Agostini, D., Goh, S. P., Pruitt, J. & Kuntner, M. (2015). Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas. ZooKeys 509: 13-52. doi:10.3897/zookeys.509.8897
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Rossi, G. de F., Ghirotto, V. M., Galleti-Lima, A., Indicatti, R. P. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2021). “Flying” or digging? The trapdoor spider genus Neocteniza Pocock, 1895: redescription of three species, new records from Brazil, notes on natural history and first record of ballooning for Idiopidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 5023(4): 451-485. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5023.4.1
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Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H., Choi, D. Y., Park, S. J., Kim, A. Y. & Kim, S. K. (2021b). Five new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae: Pholcidae) from South Korea. Zootaxa 5052(1): 61-77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.3
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Guariento, L. A., Bonvicini, M. C., Ballarin, L., Devincenzo, U., Gardini, G., Moretto, E., Pantini, P. & Nicolosi, P. (2018). Giovanni Canestrini's heritage at the Zoology Museum of Padova University (Italy): a rediscovery of his arachnological collections and described species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 36-41. doi:10.30963/aramit5506
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El-Hennawy, H. K., Sallam, G. M. E., El-Azim, N. A. I. A. & Fadl, H. A. A. A. (2021). The first record of Minosiella pallida (L. Koch, 1875) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Egypt. Serket 18(2): 176-185.
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Nanayakkara, R. P., Ganehiarachchi, G. A. S. M., Kusuminda, T., Vishvanath, N., Karunaratne, M. K. & Kirk, P. (2020). A new species of Tiger spider in the genus Poecilotheria Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Belihuloya, Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019): 3-17. [publ. in Jan. 2020; one of the authors misspelled as Ganehiarachi]
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Szűts, T., Szabó, K., Zamani, A., Forman, M., Miller, J., Oger, P., Fabregat, M., Kovács, G. & Gál, J. (2023). A study in scarlet: integrative taxonomy of the spider genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae). Diversity 15(238): 1-26. doi:10.3390/d15020238
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Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H., Choi, D. Y., Park, S. J., Kim, A. Y. & Kim, S. K. (2021a). Four new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 10(1): 86-98. doi:10.12651/JSR.2021.10.1.086
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Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Král, J., Herrera, I. M. A., Izquierdo, M. A. & Carvalho, L. S. (2023b). High and dry: integrative taxonomy of the Andean spider genus Nerudia (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198(2): 534-591. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac100
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Wang, F., Ballesteros, J. A., Hormiga, G., Chesters, D., Zhang, Y. J., Sun, N., Zhu, C. D., Chen, W. & Tu, L. H. (2015c). Resolving the phylogeny of a speciose spider group, the family Linyphiidae (Araneae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 135-149 & Appendices. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.005
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Sobczak, J. F., Sobczak, J. C. M., Padua, D., Fonseca, E. O., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Pires, J. C., Faustino, M. L. & Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A. (2019). First record of Anelosimus jucundus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (Araneae, Theridiidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Check List 15(5): 933-936. doi:10.15560/15.5.933
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Harvey, M. S., Hillyer, M. J., Main, B. Y., Moulds, T. A., Raven, R. J., Rix, M. G., Vink, C. J. & Huey, J. A. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111
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Yong, H. S., Song, S. L., Chua, K. O., Suana, W., Eamsobhana, P., Tan, J., Lim, P. E. & Chan, K. G. (2021). Complete mitochondrial genomes and phylogenetic relationships of the genera Nephila and Trichonephila (Araneae, Araneoidea). Scientific Reports 11(10680): 1-13. doi:10.1038/s41598-021-90162-1
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Ivanov, V., Blagoev, G., Danflous, S., Gajdoš, P., Høye, T. T., Lee, K. M., Marusik, Y. M., Mielec, C. L., Muster, C., Pétillon, J., Spelda, J. & Mutanen, M. (2023). Across mountains and ocean: species delimitation and historical connectivity in Holarctic and Arctic-Alpine wolf spiders (Lycosidae, Pardosa). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(5, 1): 1-14. doi:10.1093/isd/ixad018
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Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Acurio, A. E., Astrin, J. J., Inclán, D. J., Izquierdo, M. A. & Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2022). Metagonia spiders of Galápagos: blind cave-dwellers and their epigean relatives (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 36(7): 647-678. doi:10.1071/IS21082
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Henrard, A., Baert, L., De Smedt, P., Gardini, G., Vanhercke, L., Jocqué, R., Oger, P., Kekenbosch, R., Van Nieuwenhove, C., Lock, K. & Drumont, A. (2022). On the arachnofauna of the Jean Massart botanical garden (Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium). Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 37(2): 122-137.
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Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Main, B. Y., Harrison, S. E., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017a). The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. doi:10.1071/IS16065
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Mohagan, A. B., Patano, R. R. Jr., Dargantes, K. S. A. T., Melencion, M. G., Coritico, F. P. & Amoroso, V. B. (2020). New record of Talthybia depressa (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 149(3): 523-527.
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Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press Changsha, 1590 pp.
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Marta, K. S., Bustamante, A. A., Ruiz, G. R. S., Teixeira, R. A., Hagopián, D., Brescovit, A. D., Valiati, V. H. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2022). A new huriine genus and notes on morphological characters (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae). Zootaxa 5124(4): 431-457. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5124.4.2
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Rix, M. G., Bain, K., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017b). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 395-423 & Suppl. 1-3. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1
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Wright, B. M. O. G., Wright, C. D., Sole, C. L., Lyle, R., Tippett, R., Sholto-Douglas, C., Verburgt, L. & Engelbrecht, I. (2019). A new forest dwelling button spider from South Africa (Araneae, Theridiidae, Latrodectus). Zootaxa 4700(4): 584-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4700.4.12
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Aakra, K., Morka, G. H., Antonson, A., Farlund, M., Wrånes, R. E., Frølandshagen, R., Løvbrekke, H., Furuseth, P., Fjellberg, A., Lemke, M., Pfliegler, W. P., Andersen, S., Olsen, K. M., Aadland, B. & Berggren, K. (2016). Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63(1): 6-43.
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Brescovit, A. D., Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A., Sobczak, J. C. M. S. M., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Oliveira, L. F. M., Arruda, I. D. P. & Sobczak, J. F. (2019a). Macrophyes pacoti n. sp. (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with notes on an araneopathogenic fungus. Zootaxa 4629(2): 294-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.12
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Russell-Smith, A., Albertini, M., Allison, R., Askins, M., Bee, L., Dawson, I., Fountain, M., Hitchcock, G., Nellist, D., Partridge, J., Payne, R., Price, R., Read, H., Rigby, R., Spilling, C. & Woolley, C. (2013). A survey for the nationally endangered spider Midia midas in southern England. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 127: 6-10.
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Platnick, N. I., Abrahim, N., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Andriamalala, D., Baehr, B. C., Baert, L., Bonaldo, A. B., Brescovit, A. D., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Dupérré, N., Eichenberger, B., Fannes, W., Gaublomme, E., Gillespie, R., Grismado, C. J., Griswold, C. E., Harvey, M. S., Henrard, A., Hormiga, G., Izquierdo, M. A., Jocqué, R., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Kropf, C., Ott, R., Ramírez, M. J., Raven, R. J., Rheims, C. A., Ruiz, G. R. S., Santos, A. J., Saucedo, A., Sierwald, P., Szűts, T., Ubick, D. & Wang, X.-P. (2012a). Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera. American Museum Novitates 3736: 1-52. doi:10.1206/3736.2
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Wheeler, W. C., Coddington, J. A., Crowley, L. M., Dimitrov, D., Goloboff, P. A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., Prendini, L., Ramírez, M. J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L. M., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Arnedo, M. A., Benavides, L. R., Benjamin, S. P., Bond, J. E., Grismado, C. J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M. A., Labarque, F. M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W. P., Miller, J. A., Piacentini, L. N., Platnick, N. I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C., Wood, H. M. & Zhang, J. X. (2017). The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33(6): 576-616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182
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