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Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Yağmur, E. A. & Kunt, K. B. (2019b). A new mygalomorph spider species from Turkey (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae). Serket 16(4): 179-183.
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Kovblyuk, M. M., Otto, S., Marusik, Y. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2012). Redescription of the Caucasian species Geolycosa charitonovi (Mcheidze, 1997) (Araneae: Lycosidae), with the first description of the male. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15(8): 245-252. doi:10.13156/arac.2012.15.1.245
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Kunt, K. B., Elverici, M., Yağmur, E. A. & Özkütük, R. S. (2019). Kut gen. nov., a new troglomorphic spider genus from Turkey (Araneae, Dysderidae). Subterranean Biology 32: 95-109. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.32.46534
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Ponomarev, A. V., Alekseev, S. K., Kozminykh, V. O. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Stavropol Province, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 155-173. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.09
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Bayram, A., Kunt, K. B., Özgen, İ., Bolu, H., Karol, S. & Danışman, T. (2009a). A crab spider Tmarus piger (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae; Thomisidae) new for Turkish araneofauna. Turkish Journal of Arachnology 1(2, for 2008): 141-144.
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Özkütük, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Danışman, T., Kunt, K. B., Yağmur, E. A. & Elverici, M. (2013a). Genus Scytodes Latreille, 1804 in Turkey (Araneae, Scytodidae). Hacettepe Journal of Biology and Chemistry 41: 9-20.
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Irfan, M., Zhou, G. C., Bashir, S., Mukhtar, M. K. & Peng, X. J. (2020). Yuelushannus gen. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China. European Journal of Taxonomy 642: 1-17. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.642
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Zhu, M. S., Tang, G. M., Zhang, F. & Song, D. X. (2006a). Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea). Zootaxa 1140: 31-51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1140.1.2
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Castalanelli, M. A., Framenau, V. W., Huey, J. A., Hillyer, M. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2020). New species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from arid Western Australia. Journal of Arachnology 48(2): 169-213. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-48.2.169
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Harvey, M. S., Gruber, K., Hillyer, M. J. & Huey, J. A. (2020b). Five new species of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Aname (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) from Western Australia, with a revised generic placement for Aname armigera. Records of the Western Australian Museum 35: 10-38. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-35 3162.35.2020.010-038
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Mammola, S., Arnedo, M. A., Pantini, P., Piano, E., Chiappetta, N. & Isaia, M. (2018). Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes). Invertebrate Systematics 32(5): 1069-1082. doi:10.1071/IS17090
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Zhao, J. X., Wang, L. Y., Irfan, M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2021a). Further revision of the mesh-web spider genus Taira Lehtinen, 1967 (Amaurobiidae), with the description of six new species. Zootaxa 5020(3): 457-488. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5020.3.3
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Pedroso, D. R., Miranda, G. S. de & Baptista, R. L. C. (2019). Further advancements in the taxonomy of Trechona spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae): two new species, redescription of Trechona uniformis Mello‐Leitão, 1935, additions to descriptions of Trechona rufa Vellard, 1924 and Trechona venosa (Latreille, 1832) and key to the species. Austral Entomology 58(1): 204-219. doi:10.1111/aen.12364
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Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2021). A new spider species of the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 30(4): 551-556. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.4.11
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Jin, C., Liu, S.-Y., Wang, L.-X., Luo, M.-P. & Chen, K. (2022). Re-validation and re-description of Tasa koreana (Wesołowska, 1981) (Araneae, Salticidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 10(e87443): 1-9. doi:10.3897/BDJ.10.e87443
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Caleb, J. T. D., Francis, C., Bhat, V. K. & Packiam, S. M. (2022b). A new species and two new synonyms in the genus Plexippus C.L. Koch, 1846 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina). Arthropoda Selecta 31(3): 312-318. doi:10.15298/arthsel.31.3.07
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Pedroso, D. R., Baptista, R. L. C. & Ferreira, P. S. F. (2008). Trechona rufa (Araneae, Dipluridae): new status, redescription and neotype designation with notes on the genus. Journal of Arachnology 36(2): 360-367. doi:10.1636/CA07-109.1
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Tripathi, R., Jose, A., Nafin, K. S., Babu, N. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023a). The first description of the female of Myrmarachne uniseriata Narayan, 1915 and the first report of Myrmarachne spissa (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1892) from India. Peckhamia 289.1: 1-10. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7542028
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Pittella, R. S., Bassa, P. G., Zefa, E. & Bianchi, F. P. (2023). Using the integrative approach to update a gap of one century: redescription and new distribution records of the South American tarantulas Grammostola pulchra (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoological Studies 62(5): 1-15. doi:10.6620/ZS.2023.62-05
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Morrill, E., Crews, S., Esposito, L., Ramírez, M. J. & Griswold, C. (2023). A revision of the genus Porteria and the phylogeny and biogeography of Porteriinae (Araneae: Desidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198(2): 368-461. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac093
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Aharon, S., Ballesteros, J. A., Gainett, G., Hawlena, D., Sharma, P. P. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2023). In the land of the blind: exceptional subterranean speciation of cryptic troglobitic spiders of the genus Tegenaria (Araneae: Agelenidae) in Israel. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 183(107705): 1-28. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107705
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Zyl, J. van, Sander, A., Blake, B. & Webb, P. (2023b). New information on the green tree crab spider Oxytate argenteooculata (Simon, 1886) from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 44: 10-13. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7539729
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Seropian, A., Bulbulashvili, N., Otto, S., Krammer, H.-J., Kachlishvili, N. & Datunashvili, A. (2023). Picking pearls from the Silk Road: insights into the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) diversity in Georgia from the Caucasus barcode of life project. Part II. Caucasiana 2: 231-297 & Suppl. doi:10.3897/caucasiana.2.e110536
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Esyunin, S. L., Zolotarev, M. P., Nesterkov, A. V., Plakkhina, E. V. & Ustinova, A. L. (2024). New data on the spider fauna of Urals (Arachnida: Araneae). Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2024(1): 42-53. doi:10.17072/1994-9952-2024-1-42-53
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Lee, Y. B., Yoo, J. S., Lee, D. J. & Kim, J. P. (2004). Ground dwelling spiders. Korean Arachnology 20: 97-115.
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Sunil Jose, K., Davis, S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2004). Redescription of Tetragnatha viridorufa Gravely from Kerala, India, Araneae: Tetragnathidae. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 101: 182-184.
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Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (2004a). Two new species of the genus Tmarus (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China. Korean Arachnology 20: 13-19.
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Yoo, J. S., Park, Y. C., Lee, Y. B. & Kim, J. P. (2004b). One newly recorded species of Syedra (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 20: 33-38.
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Ponomarev, A. V., Abdurakhmanov, G. M., Alieva, S. V. & Dvadnenko, K. V. (2011). [Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of coastal and island territories of northern Daghestan]. South of Russia: Ecology, Development 2011(4): 126-143.
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Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Kunt, K. B. & Yağmur, E. A. (2013b). Faunistic notes on the cybaeid spiders of Turkey (Araneae: Cybaeidae). Journal of Applied Biological Sciences 7: 71-77.
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Indicatti, R. P., Folly-Ramos, E., Vargas, A. B., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). Two new tiny Nemesiidae species from Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(2): 123-138. [errata: Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(6): 541] doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000200003
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Malek-Hosseini, M. J., Grismado, C. J., Sadeghi, S. & Bakhshi, Y. (2015). Description of the first cave dwelling species of the spider genus Trilacuna Tong & Li from Iran (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 3972(4): 549-561. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.4.6
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Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Jannesar, B., Marusik, Y. M. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015). New data on spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part II. Zoology and Ecology 25(4): 339-346. doi:10.1080/21658005.2015.1068508
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Chomphuphuang, N., Deowanish, S., Songsangchote, C., Sivayyapram, V., Thongprem, P. & Warrit, N. (2016). The Mediterranean recluse spider Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) established in a natural cave in Thailand. Journal of Arachnology 44(2): 142-147. doi:10.1636/R15-61
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Cifuentes, Y., Estrada-Gomez, S., Vargas-Muñoz, L. J. & Perafán, C. (2016). Description and molecular characterization of a new species of tarantula, Pamphobeteus verdolaga, from Colombia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(6, e20160113): 1-6. doi:10.1590/s1984-4689zool-20160113
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Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017c). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.55
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Wang, L. Y., Chen, H. M., Wu, P. L., Zhang, F. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). Spider diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, II: Clubionidae (Araneae). Zoological Systematics 43(4): 317-333. doi:10.11865/zs.201827
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Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1997a). Three new species of the genus Phrurolithus (Araneae: Liocranidae) from China. Korean Arachnology 13(1): 25-30.
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Yamasaki, T., Yamaguchi, M., Phung, L. T. H., Huang, P. S. & Tso, I. M. (2018a). Redescription of Chrysilla lauta Thorell 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae) based on the comparison with the holotype, and DNA barcoding. Acta Arachnologica 27(1): 23-29. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.23
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Fardiansah, R., Dupérré, N., Widyastuti, R., Potapov, A., Scheu, S. & Harms, D. (2018). Description of three new species of Aposphragisma Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 797: 71-85. doi:10.3897/zookeys.797.29364
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Yu, K. P., Lo, Y. Y., Huang, W. C., Hsiao, Y. & Ding, T. S. (2019). Redescription of a wall crab spider species from Taiwan: Siamspinops formosensis (Kayashima, 1943) comb. nov., with the first description of males and taxonomic notes (Araneae: Selenopidae). Zootaxa 4543(4): 590-594. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.8
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Höfer, H., Meyer, F., Bauer, T., Bayer, S., Harry, I. & Kastner, L. (2019). Überraschende Erstnachweise und neue Daten zu seltenen Spinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae) aus Blockhalden in Baden-Württemberg. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 62-84. doi:10.30963/aramit5811
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Castanheira, P. de S., Pérez-González, A., Prado, A. W. do & Baptista, R. L. C. (2019a). Three new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4657(3): 523-544. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.6
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Özkütük, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Kunt, K. B. & Karaduman, N. (2019e). Redescription of Harpactea christodeltshevi Bayram, Kunt & Yağmur, 2009 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from Turkey. Commagene Journal of Biology 3(2): 75-78. doi:10.31594/commagene.615623
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Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S., Oliveira, G. A. & Prado, A. W. do (2020). Descriptions of three new species of jumping-spiders, genus Arnoliseus (Araneae, Salticidae), from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, with comments on their genital morphology and a key to species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(1): 73-90. doi:10.3897/zse.96.46509
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Fardiansah, R., Dupérré, N., Widyastuti, R., Potapov, A., Scheu, S. & Harms, D. (2019). Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 820: 95-118. doi:10.3897/zookeys.820.29363
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Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). Two new species of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the genera Epeus Peckham et Peckham, 1886 and Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 267-276. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.10
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Kunt, K. B., Yağmur, E. A., Danışman, T., Bayram, A. & Kaya, R. S. (2009). Genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Turkey. Serket 11: 93-101.
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Sherwood, D., Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Gabriel, R. & Lucas, S. M. (2020). Redescription of Nesipelma insulare Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996 with a revised generic diagnosis for Nesipelma Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996 and a transfer from Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 462-467. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.462
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Prajapati, D. A., Kumbhar, S. B., Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V. & Kamboj, R. D. (2021). Description of two new species of the tribe Chrysillini Simon, 1901 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 30(2): 230-238. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.2.10
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