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Yamamoto, F. U., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). Catanduba, a new Theraphosinae spider genus from central Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 3172: 1-19. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3172.1.1
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Rodrigues, E. N. L. & Mendonça Jr., M. de S. (2011). Araneid orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae) associated with riparian forests in southern Brazil: a new species, complementary descriptions and new records. Zootaxa 2759: 60-68. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2759.1.3
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Revollo, I. S., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (2017). Two new Dolichothele Mello-Leitão, 1923 species from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 724: 1-20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.724.20680
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Irfan, M., Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2021). Two new species of the spider genus Pimoa Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 (Araneae, Pimoidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 30(2): 113-117. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2021.02.06
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Mammola, S., Hormiga, G., Arnedo, M. A. & Isaia, M. (2016). Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae: Pimoidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30(6): 566-587. doi:10.1071/IS16017
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Wang, X. P., Jäger, P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2010). The genus Taira, with notes on tibial apophyses and descriptions of three new species. Journal of Arachnology 38(1): 57-72. doi:10.1636/A09-19.1
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Framenau, V. W., Scharff, N. & Harvey, M. S. (2010). Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae: Araneidae). Invertebrate Systematics 24(2): 139-171. doi:10.1071/IS10005
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Zhang, M., Irfan, M., Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2022a). Six new species of Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from southern China, with the first description of the male of T. yanlingensis (Zhang, Yin & Kim, 2000). Zootaxa 5091(2): 357-372. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5091.2.7
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Diniz, V. S., Braga-Pereira, G. F. & Santos, A. J. (2022). Just met and already threatened? A new species of Paratrechalea Carico, 2005 from the Brazilian Cerrado (Araneae: Trechaleidae), with new distribution records for the genus. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 348-357. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.348
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Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2022). On the species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions of type material, the first record of P. grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 from Peru, and the description of four new species. Arachnology 19(3): 650-674. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.650
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Zhang, F., Peng, J. Y. & Zhang, B. S. (2022). Spiders of Mt. Xiaowutai. Science Press, Beijing, 387 pp. [pdf in three parts]
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Bopearachchi, D. P., Eberle, J. & Benjamin, S. P. (2022). Molecular and morphological species delimitation suggest a single species of the beetle-spider genus Ballus in Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 50(3): 314-322. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-21-040
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Sherwood, D., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2023). Paratropis tortue sp. nov., a new species of mud spider from French Guiana (Araneae: Paratropididae). Faunitaxys 11(10): 1-3. doi:10.57800/faunitaxys-11(10)
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Sudhin, P. P., Sen, S. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2023a). Two new Stenaelurillus species (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillina) from Western Ghats, India. Zoosystematics and Evolution 99(1): 123-133. doi:10.3897/zse.99.97985
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Leenders, X. J. R., Beach, D. & Harvey, M. S. (2023). A new species of open-holed trapdoor spider of the genus Proshermacha (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from Western Australia. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 20: 1-10. doi:10.54102/ajt.vyjry
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Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2023). One less monotypic genus: a new species of the enigmatic Magnopholcomma (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Tasmania (Australia) with comments on its genital morphology and the generic placement in Pholcommatinae. Australian Journal of Taxonomy 32: 1-7. doi:10.54102/ajt.v3zyt
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Chen, H. M., Zhu, M. S. & Kim, J. P. (2008). Three new eyeless Draconarius spiders (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from limestone caves in Guizhou, southwestern China. Korean Arachnology 24: 85-95.
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Wilson, J. D., Rix, M. G. & Harvey, M. S. (2023b). Description of five new Aname L. Koch, 1873 (Araneae, Anamidae) species collected on Bush Blitz expeditions. European Journal of Taxonomy 890: 1-22. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.890.2247
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Schiapelli, R. D. & Gerschman de P., B. S. (1967b). La familia Pycnothelidae (Chamberlin, 1917) (Araneae-Mygalomorphae). Segunda Jornada Entomoepidemiológica Argentina 1(1965): 45-64.
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Jones, A. & Haddad, C. R. (2022). Notes on the silver vlei spider Leucauge festiva (Blackwall, 1866) from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA Newsletter 40(2021): 15-18.
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Sudhin, P. P., Jwala, R., Sen, S. & Hegde, V. D. (2024). Taxonomic notes on the genus Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 (Araneae, Salticidae) from India. Zoosystematics and Evolution 100(2): 447-455. doi:10.3897/zse.100.118686
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Biswas, V., Kundu, B., Kundu, M., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (1996). Spiders of the genus Oxyopes Latreille (Araneae: Oxyopidae) of Buxa Tiger Reserve, West Bengal. Acta Arachnologica 45(1): 53-61. doi:10.2476/asjaa.45.53
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Shi, S. T., Mu, Y. N. & Zhang, F. (2024). Description of four new species of Otacilia Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 5447(4): 513-530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5447.4.4
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Barrion, A. T., Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A., Catindig, J. L. A., Villareal M., O., Cai, D., Yuan, Q. H. & Heong, K. L. (2013). New species of spiders (Araneae) from Hainan Island, China. UPLB Museum Publications in Natural History 3: 1-103. doi:10.5281/zenodo.269136
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Zamani, A., Dimitrov, D., Weiss, I., Alimohammadi, S., Rafiei-Jahed, R., Esyunin, S. L., Moradmand, M., Chatzaki, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part VII. Arachnology 18(6): 569-591. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.569
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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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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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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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Zhang, Y. J., Pan, Z. C., Tong, L. J. & Zhu, S. H. (2000). The spiders of family Thomisidae in Ningbo Tiantong Forest Park. Journal of Ningbo University, Natural Science Edition 13(4): 35-38.
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Sunil Jose, K., Sebastian, P. A., Davis, S. & Varghese, A. P. (2003b). First record of Thalassius albocinctus (Doleschall) (Araneae: Pisauridae) from India. Entomon 28: 309-314.
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Murugesan, S., Mathew, M. J., Sudhikumar, A. V., Sunish, E., Biju, C. R. & Sebastian, P. A. (2006). A new species of green lynx spider of the genus Peucetia Thorell (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from Tamil Nadu, India. Entomon 31: 287-292.
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Guadanucci, J. P. L., Lucas, S. M., Indicatti, R. P. & Yamamoto, F. U. (2007). Description of Guyruita gen. nov. and two new species (Ischnocolinae, Theraphosidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24: 991-996.
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Indicatti, R. P., Lucas, S. M., Ott, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2008b). Litter dwelling mygalomorph spiders (Araneae: Microstigmatidae, Nemesiidae) from Araucaria forests in southern Brazil, with the description of five new species. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 25: 529-546.
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Yang, Z. Z., Zhang, Z. S., Zhang, Y. G. & Kim, J. P. (2009b). Two new species of the genus Allozelotes Yin & Peng, 1998 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from China. Korean Arachnology 25: 105-111.
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Baehr, B. C., Harvey, M. S., Smith, H. M. & Ott, R. (2013). The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 58: 107-338.
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Bertani, R., Cruz, W. R. & Oliveira, M. E. do E. S. (2013). Masteria manauara sp. nov., the first masteriine species from Brazil (Araneae: Dipluridae: Masteriinae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 30: 437-440. doi:10.1590/s1984-46702013000400010
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Bonaldo, A. B., Ruiz, G. R. S., Brescovit, A. D., Santos, A. J. & Ott, R. (2014). Simlops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from northern South America. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 388: 1-60. doi:10.1206/829.1
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Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H., Kim, T. W. & Kim, D. H. (2015c). Description of the male of Paratheuma shirahamaensis (Oi, 1960) (Araneae: Desidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 109-112.
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Azarkina, G. N., Esyunin, S. L., Kuzmin, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia. Zootaxa 4205(4): 339-348. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.2
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Kunt, K. B., Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Marusik, Y. M. & Karakaş, G. (2016). Harpactea karaschkhan sp. n., a new cave-dwelling blind spider species from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 78(1): 36-40. doi:10.4311/2015LSC0106
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Moss, D. F., Feitosa, N. M., Bonaldo, A. B. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2016). Description of eleven new species of the goblin spider genus Neoxyphinus Birabén, 1953 (Araneae, Oonopidae). Zootaxa 4098(1): 95-133. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.4
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Prajapati, D. A., Murthappa, P. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016a). Two new species of the ant-eating spider genus Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 (Araneae, Zodariidae, Zodariinae) from India. Zootaxa 4061(5): 575-584. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.7
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Indicatti, R. P., Chavari, J. L., Zucatelli-Júnior, M., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2017). Six new species of silk-lined burrow spider genus Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 (Araneae, Nemesiidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4254(4): 435-456. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.2
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Rix, M. G., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018a). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1
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Tan, J. C. H., Koh, J. K. H. & Ang, C. S. P. (2018). New record of a pseudo-orb weaver, Fecenia ochracea (Doleschall, 1859) in Singapore (Araneae: Psechridae). Nature in Singapore 11: 15-26.
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Marusik, Y. M., Eskov, K. Y., Koponen, S. & Vinokurov, N. N. (1993a). A check-list of the spiders (Aranei) of Yakutia, Siberia. Arthropoda Selecta 2(2): 63-79.
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Yin, C. M., Xie, L. P., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1996b). Four new species of the genus Castianeira from China (Araneae: Corinnidae). Korean Arachnology 12(1): 87-95.
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Xie, L. P., Peng, X. J., Zhang, Y. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1997). Five new species of the family Uloboridae (Arachnida: Araneae) from China. Korean Arachnology 13(2): 33-39. [N.B.: name of first author mistakenly given as L. P. Xian in publication]
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Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1999). One new species of the genus Ozyptila from China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Korean Arachnology 15(1): 33-36.
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Milano, F., Mammola, S., Rollard, C., Leccia, M.-F. & Isaia, M. (2019). An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zoosystema 41(4): 29-58. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a4
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