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Zhang, J. S., Yu, H. & Chen, J. (2020). First description of the female of Clubiona milingae Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Heong, 2013 (Araneae, Clubionidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 8(e51789): 1-8. doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e51789
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Řezáč, M., Král, J. & Pekár, S. (2008). The spider genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Central Europe: revision and natural history. Journal of Arachnology 35(3): 432-462. doi:10.1636/H06-38.1
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Řezáč, M., Pekár, S. & Johannesen, J. (2008). Taxonomic review and phylogenetic analysis of Central European Eresus species (Araneae: Eresidae). Zoologica Scripta 37(3): 263-287. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00328.x
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Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1997). Fauna Sinica: Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae, Philodromidae. Science Press, Beijing, 259 pp.
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Bertani, R. & Carla-da-Silva, S. (2003). Notes on the genus Iracema Pérez-Miles, 2000 with the first description of the male of I. horrida (Schmidt, 1994) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 362: 1-8. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.362.1.1
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Siliwal, M., Gupta, N. & Molur, S. (2013). The striated parachute spider Poecilotheria striata Pocock, 1895 (Araneae: Theraphosidae): a note on taxonomy, distribution and conservation status. Journal of Threatened Taxa 5(12): 4630-4640. doi:10.11609/jott.o2956.4630-40
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Tuneva, T. K. & Esyunin, S. L. (2003a). A review of the Gnaphosidae fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 3. New species and new records, chiefly from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 11(3, 2002): 223-234.
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Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2014). A redescription of Damarchus cavernicola Abraham, 1924, with notes on Damarchus Thorell, 1891 and Atmetochilus Simon, 1887 (Aranei: Nemesiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23(3): 273-278. doi:10.15298/arthsel.23.3.06
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Song, D. X. & Zhu, M. S. (1994). On some species of cave arachnids of China. In: Chen, Y. Z. (ed.) Sixtieth Anniversary of the Founding of China Zoological Society: Memorial Volume Dedicated to the Hundredth Anniversary of the Birthday of the Late Prof. Sisan Chen (Z. Chen). China Science and Technology Press Beijing, pp. 35-46.
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Bedoya-Róqueme, E. & Lopez-Villada, S. (2020b). Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Department of Córdoba in the Caribbean Region of Colombia. Peckhamia 224.1: 1-23.
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Tikader, B. K. & Malhotra, M. S. (1981). Revision of spiders of the genus Ctenus Walckenaer from India (Araneae: Ctenidae). Records of the Zoological Survey of India 79(1-2): 105-124.
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Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Longhorn, S. J. (2020). The revised taxonomic placement of the genus Acentropelma Pocock, 1901 and restoration of the genus Pseudoschizopelma Smith, 1995 (Aranei: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 453-466. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.4.07
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Heiss, J. S. & Draney, M. L. (2004). Revision of the Nearctic spider genus Calymmaria (Araneae, Hahniidae). Journal of Arachnology 32(3): 457-525. doi:10.1636/H02-12
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West, R. C. & Nunn, S. C. (2010b). A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Coremiocnemis Simon 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with further notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2443: 1-64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2443.1.1
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Schwendinger, P. J. & Zonstein, S. L. (2011). A taxonomic revision of the genus Phyxioschema (Araneae, Dipluridae), II: species from central Asia. Zootaxa 2815: 28-48. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2815.1.2
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Bhatnagar, R. D. S. & Rempel, J. G. (1962). The structure, function, and postembryonic development of the male and female copulatory organs of the black widow spider Latrodectus curacaviensis (Müller). Canadian Journal of Zoology 40(3): 465-510. doi:10.1139/z62-043
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Huber, B. A. & Benjamin, S. P. (2005). The pholcid spiders from Sri Lanka: redescription of Pholcus ceylonicus and description of a new genus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 39(37): 3305-3319. doi:10.1080/00222930500145123
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Shafaie, S., Nadolny, A. A. & Mirshamsi, O. (2022). A new species of Lycosa and three new species and a new record of Karakumosa from Iran (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa 5120(4): 501-522. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5120.4.3
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Lin, S. W., Lopardo, L. & Uhl, G. (2022). Evolution of nuptial-gift-related male prosomal structures: taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Oedothorax (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 195(2): 417-584, suppl. figs S1-S5. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab033
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Crosby, C. R. & Bishop, S. C. (1933b). American spiders: Erigoneae, males with cephalic pits. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 26(1): 105-172, pl. 1-10. doi:10.1093/aesa/26.1.105
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Sancak, Z., İyiçalışkan, N. & Damar, Y. S. (2022). A new record of Walckenaeria in the spider fauna of Türkiye (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Serket 19(1): 29-31.
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Yoo, J. S. & Framenau, V. W. (2006). Systematics and biogeography of the sheet-web building wolf spider genus Venonia (Araneae: Lycosidae). Invertebrate Systematics 20(6): 675-712. doi:10.1071/IS06013
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Abhijith, R. S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). First record and redescription of wolf spider Pardosa oriens (Araneae, Lycosidae) from India. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 65(2): 7-13. doi:10.3897/travaux.63.e95756
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Yang, Y. S., Liu, B. & Zhang, F. (2023). First record of the genus Talanites Simon, 1893 from China, with taxonomic study on Drassodes involutus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885) (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 32(1): 25-30. [not published in May, pdf online on July 26, printed version not distributed before end of August] doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2023.01.005
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Koponen, S., Hoffmann, J. & Marusik, Y. M. (2002). Kikimora palustris Eskov, 1988 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) found in Europe. Entomologica Fennica 13(3): 129-133. doi:10.33338/ef.84151
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Brandt, S., Sole, C. & Lyle, R. (2023). An integrative taxonomy of the genus Stasimopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) of the Karoo with the description of nine new species and a Stasimopus maraisi Hewitt 1914 male. Zootaxa 5341(1): 1-60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5341.1.1
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Sudhin, P. P., Sen, S. & Jäger, P. (2023). Taxonomic notes on the nursery-web spider genus Dendrolycosa Doleschall, 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 5353(1): 67-74. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5353.1.4
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Kunt, K. B. & Özkütük, R. S. (2023). New data on the Harpacteinae of Turkey (Araneae, Dysderidae). Zootaxa 5375(3): 379-408. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5375.3.4
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Zyl, J. van (2022). Observations on the trapdoor spider Ancylotrypa nigriceps (Purcell, 1902) (Araneae: Cyrtaucheniidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 18-20. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Zyl, J. van (2023a). First record of the theridiid spider Rhomphaea affinis Lessert, 1936 from South Africa (Arachnida: Theridiidae). SANSA Newsletter 44: 14-16. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7539731
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Vertyankin, A. V. & Danilov, S. V. (2020). On the find of the wolf-spider Lycosa ishikariana (Saito, 1934) (Araneae: Lycosidae) in Sakhalin Island. Journal of Sakhalin Museum (4) 33: 96-107.
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Nobre, W. B. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2024). On the boundary of the jumping spider genus Rhyphelia Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), with description of ten new species. Zootaxa 5418(5): 471-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5418.5.3
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Wang, X. G. & Xi, G. S. (1998). A new species of the genus Tmarus from Shaanxi Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 7(1): 33-35. doi:10.2476/asjaa.47.33
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Saha, S., Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (1995). A new name for Heteropoda acuta Saha, Biswas et Raychaudhuri, 1994 (Araneae: Heteropodidae). Acta Arachnologica 44(1): 15-16. doi:10.2476/asjaa.44.15
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Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2000a). Taxonomic study on Selenocosmia huwena Wang et al., 1993 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ornithoctoninae). Journal of Hubei University 20: 53-56.
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Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2001). A new species of the genus Devade Simon, 1884 from Mongolia, with notes on D. tenella (Tyshchenko, 1965) (Aranei: Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 9: 129-131.
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Kim, J. P. & Gwon, S. P. (2001). A revisional study of the spider family Thomisidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 17: 13-78.
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Lazarov, S., Deltshev, C. & Blagoev, G. (2001). The spiders (Araneae) of Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mountain (Bulgaria). Faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 53: 3-28.
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Raven, R. J. & Stumkat, K. S. (2002). Pteroneta Deeleman-Reinhold and a remarkable sympatric Clubiona (Clubionidae: Araneomorphae: Arachnida) in northern Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 48: 199-206.
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Zhu, M. S. & Chen, H. M. (2002). A new cave spider of the genus Telema from China (Araneae: Telemidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 27: 82-84.
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Pekár, S., Cardoso, P. & Meierrose, C. (2003). Additions to the knowledge of Portuguese zodariid spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12: 385-395.
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Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2003). Description of six new species of Kalcerrytus Galiano from the Brazilian Amazon (Araneae: Salticidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 8: 73-79.
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Chen, H. M. & Zhu, M. S. (2004). A new cave spider of the genus Nesticella from China (Araneae, Nesticidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 29: 87-88.
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Dias, S. C. & Brescovit, A. D. (2004). Microhabitat selection and co-occurrence of Pachistopelma rufonigrum Pocock (Araneae, Theraphosidae) and Nothroctenus fuxico sp. nov. (Araneae, Ctenidae) in tank bromeliads from Serra de Itabaiana, Sergipe, Brazil. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 21: 789-796.
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Felton, C., Judd, S. & Merrett, P. (2004). Agroeca dentigera Kulczyński, 1913, a liocranid spider new to Britain (Araneae, Liocranidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 90-92.
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Zhu, M. S. & Tso, I. M. (2005). The redescription of Yamia watasei Kishida, with taxonomic study (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 14: 13-16.
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Dankittipakul, P., Sonthichai, S. & Wang, X. P. (2006). Ten new species of coelotine spiders (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Thailand. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 113: 3-21.
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Zhu, M. S. & Tso, I. M. (2006). Two new species of the family Sparassidae from Taiwan, with description of the female of Olios scalptor (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 267-270.
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Deltshev, C., Lazarov, S. & Stojkoska, E. (2007). A contribution to the study of spiders (Araneae) from the caves of the Republic of Macedonia. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 59: 337-340.
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Harten, A. van (2007). Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia 23: 169-188.
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