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Bishop, S. C. & Crosby, C. R. (1926). Notes on the spiders of the southeastern United States with descriptions of new species. Journal of the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society 41: 163-212, pl. 20-25.
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Caleb, J. T. D. & Acharya, S. (2019). First record of the genus Schenkelia Lessert 1927 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 73-75. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.73
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Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2002). A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 1. Genera Drassodes Westring, 1851 and Sidydrassus gen.n. Arthropoda Selecta 10(2, 2001): 169-180. [publ. in Feb. 2002]
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Svatoň, J., Prídavka, R. & Pekár, S. (2002). Two spider species new to Slovakia (Araneae: Theridiidae, Salticidae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae Biologica 45: 299-302.
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Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2020). A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 6. Taxonomic remarks and new records, with description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 103-120. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.09
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Huang, W. J. & Chen, S. H. (2012b). Clubionidae (Arachnida: Araneae). pp. 39-100, 104-122, 126-130. In: Chen, S. H. & Huang, W. J. (eds.) The spider fauna of Taiwan. Araneae. Miturgidae, Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae. National Taiwan Normal University Taipei, 130 pp.
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Bertani, R. & Carla-da-Silva, S. (2004). Notes on Acanthoscurria chacoana Brèthes, 1909 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil, and its synonymy with Acanthoscurria altmanni Schmidt, 2003. Zootaxa 648: 1-8. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.648.1.1
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Indicatti, R. P. & Lucas, S. M. (2005). Description of a new genus of Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from the Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 1088: 11-16. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1088.1.2
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Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2012). On two rare spider species of the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the south Urals. Arthropoda Selecta 21(3): 269-272. doi:10.15298/arthsel.21.3.09
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Zhang, B. S., Liu, L. & Zhang, F. (2011b). Two new species of the genus Lasaeola Simon (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Hainan Island, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 20(1): 4-8.
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Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2020b). The first record of Zantheres and Z. gracillimus Thorell, 1887 (Araneae, Lycosidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(2): 99-102. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.02.004
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Bustamante, A. A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2020). New species and records of thiodinines from North and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Thiodinini). Zootaxa 4899(1): 115-140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.6
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Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). [An invading "black widow" spider was discovered in China]. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 124-127. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.009
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Okumura, K., Honki, K. & Ohba, S. (2018b). Male description of Coelotes nasensis Shimojana 2000 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Amami-ōshima Island, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 77-79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.77
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Yu, K., Zhang, S. Y. & Zhang, F. (2021a). Chinothele jixiang gen. et sp. nov., a new euagrid spider from China (Araneae, Euagridae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30(1): 26-30. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.01.004
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Arizala, S., Labarque, F. M. & Polotow, D. (2021). Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae). Zootaxa 4920(1): 1-55. [incl. Erratum: Zootaxa 5032(4): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4920.1.1
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Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2012b). Australian assassins, part III: A review of the assassin spiders (Araneae, Archaeidae) of tropical north-eastern Queensland. ZooKeys 218: 1-55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.218.3662
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Tuneva, T. K. & Esyunin, S. L. (2003b). A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 4. The first record of Gnaphosa tigrina Simon, 1878 and remarks on two species from the rufula group. Arthropoda Selecta 11(4, 2002): 277-281.
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West, R. C. & Nunn, S. C. (2010a). A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Lyrognathus Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with notes on the Selenocosmiinae. Zootaxa 2362: 1-43. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2362.1.1
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Zhang, B. S., Zhang, F. & Chen, P. (2011). Species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Hainan Island, China. Zootaxa 2986: 55-62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2986.1.2
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Crosby, C. R. & Bishop, S. C. (1927). New species of Erigoneae and Theridiidae. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 35: 147-154.
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Bishop, S. C. & Crosby, C. R. (1938). Studies in American spiders: Miscellaneous genera of Erigoneae, Part II. Journal of the New York Entomological Society 46: 55-107.
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Framenau, V. W. & Castanheira, P. de S. (2022a). Two new species in the orb-weaving spider genus Larinia Simon, 1874 (Araneae, Araneidae) from Western Australia. Zootaxa 5092(3): 350-360. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5092.3.6
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Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2007a). On the Venezuelan species of jumping spider described by Schenkel (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 34: 646-648.
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Patel, B. H. & Reddy, T. S. (1988). Two new species of genus Ctenus Walckenaer (Araneae: Ctenidae) from coastal Andhra Pradesh, India. Entomon 13: 103-107.
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Esyunin, S. L. & Efimik, V. E. (2022). Sacarum nemkovi gen. et sp. n. (Aranei: Nesticidae), from the steppe Cisurals, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 31(2): 246-250. doi:10.15298/arthsel.31.2.13
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Jwala, R., Sen, S. & Sureshan, P. M. (2022). Two new species of orb-weaving spiders of the genera Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 and Pasilobus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Araneidae) from India. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 72(2): 217-222. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2022.72.2.005
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Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2022). A new species of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Eucyrtops (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 4: 1-6. doi:10.54102/ajt.unvpo
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Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2022b). Sincybaeus liaoning gen. & sp. nov., a new genus and species of cybaeid spiders from China (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 92-95. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.005
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Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2022c). A new species of genus Artoria Thorell, 1877 from Sichuan, China (Araneae: Lycosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 109-112. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.008
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Zhang, R., Zhang, Z. S. & Zhang, F. (2022). A new record species of the genus Hahnia (Araneae: Hahniidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 121-123. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.010
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Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2022a). Three new species of Ariadna Audouin, 1826 from China (Araneae: Segestriidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(2): 81-86. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.02.003
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Ruiz, G. R. S. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008a). On some Chilean jumping spider type specimens described by Nicolet (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 35(3): 535-537. doi:10.1636/H06-31.1
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Zamani, A., Österman, E. M. & Koponen, S. (2022a). The first record of Gibbaranea gibbosa (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae:Araneidae) in Finland. Sahlbergia 28(1): 23-24.
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Sarkar, I. D., Quasin, S. & Siliwal, M. (2023). Two new species of sac spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae) from the Indian western Himalayas. Serket 19(2): 126-131.
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Castanheira, P. de S. & Framenau, V. W. (2023b). Kangaraneus, a new genus of orb-weaving spider from Australia (Araneae, Araneidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(2): 307-323. doi:10.3897/zse.99.101417
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Michelotto, A. S. & Santos, A. J. (2023). A new alien species in Brazil: Heliophanus hamifer Simon, 1886. Peckhamia 300.1: 1-7.
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West, R. C. & Marshall, S. D. (2000). Description of two new species of Ephebopus Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae). Arthropoda ISSN 0943-7274 (1993-2009) and EISSN 2813-3323 (2023 onwards) 8(2): 6-14.
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Preez, K. du & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (2022). Notes on the red ladybird beetle spider Paraplectana thorntoni (Blackwall, 1865) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 41: 23-25.
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Webb, P. (2022c). First record of the crab spider Diaea rohani Fage, 1923 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 42: 15-16.
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Webb, P. (2022d). First record of the crab spider Synema simoneae Lessert, 1919 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 13-14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Zyl, J. van (2023b). First record of the trash-line spider Cyclosa conica (Pallas, 1772) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 45: 13-14. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7828887
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Webb, P. (2023b). First record of the crab spider Diaea longisetosa Roewer, 1961 from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 45: 15-16. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7831492
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Webb, P. (2023f). More on the black-palp wolf spider Pardosa crassipalpis Purcell, 1903 in South Africa (Araneae: Lycosidae). SANSA Newsletter 47: 21-23. doi:10.5281/zenodo.8421664
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Pekár, S., Svatoň, J. & Thomka, V. (1999). Reconsideration of Lepthyphantes montanus Kulczyński, 1898 and Lepthyphantes milleri Staręga, 1972 (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11(6): 254-256.
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Vertyankin, A. V. & Danilov, S. V. (2022). Records of Dolomedes senilis Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Pisauridae) and Agelenopsis potteri (Blackwall, 1846) (Araneae: Agelenidae) on Sakhalin Island. Amurian Zoological Journal 14(3): 404-408. doi:10.33910/2686-9519-2022-14-3-404-408
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Marusik, Y. M., Koponen, S., Vinokurov, N. N. & Nogovitsyna, S. N. (2002a). Spiders (Aranei) from northernmost forest-tundra of northeastern Yakutia (70°35'N, 134°34'E) with description of three new species. Arthropoda Selecta 10: 351-370.
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Zhang, Z. S., Yang, Z. Z., Zhu, M. S. & Song, D. X. (2003). A new species of the genus Coelotes from China, with a redescription of Coelotes modestus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 12: 79-84.
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Zhu, M. S., Zhang, J. X., Zhang, Z. S. & Chen, H. M. (2005). Arachnida: Araneae. In: Yang, M. F. & D. C. Jin (eds.) Insects from Dashahe Nature Reserve of Guizhou. Guizhou People's Publishing House Guiyang, pp. 490-555.
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Parveen, R., Khan, A. A., Mushtaq, S., Ahmad, Z. & Rana, S. A. (2008). A new species of the genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Punjab Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Agricultural Sciences 45: 119-121.
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