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Ledford, J., Derkarabetian, S., Ribera, C., Starrett, J., Bond, J. E., Griswold, C. & Hedin, M. (2021). Phylogenomics and biogeography of leptonetid spiders (Araneae: Leptonetidae). Invertebrate Systematics 35(3): 332-349. doi:10.1071/IS20065
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Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., El-Masry, S. M. & Ismail, T. G. (2022). Redescription of Cheiracanthium isiacum (Arachnida: Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) from Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Sohag Journal of Sciences 7(2): 47-60. doi:10.21608/sjsci.2022.233690
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Zamani, A., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2022b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IX. Arachnology 19(Special Issue): 358-384. doi:10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.358
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Rix, M. G., Wood, H. M., Harvey, M. S. & Michalik, P. (2021). Micro-computed tomography reveals a remarkable twin intromittent organ in spiders – a novelty for arachnids with direct sperm transfer. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9(794708): 1-7. doi:10.3389/fevo.2021.794708
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Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Tripathi, R., Sampathkumar, M., Dharmara, J. & Packiam, S. M. (2022a). Taxonomic notes on some South and Southeast Asian members of the genus Rhene Thorell, 1869 (Aranei, Salticidae, Dendryphantini). Zootaxa 5125(4): 389-407. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.4.3
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Rodrigues, E. N. L., Brescovit, A. D., Freitas, G. C. C. & Vasconcelos, S. D. (2008). Spiders of Fernando de Noronha Island. Part I: Linyphiidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14(5): 247-252. doi:10.13156/arac.2008.14.5.247
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Tyagi, K., Kumar, V., Kundu, S., Pakrashi, A., Prasad, P., Caleb, J. T. D. & Chandra, K. (2019). Identification of Indian spiders through DNA barcoding: cryptic species and species complex. Scientific Reports 9(14033): 1-13 & Supplement. doi:10.1038/s41598-019-50510-8
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Wang, L. Y., Irfan, M., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2022a). Seven new species of Meta Koch, 1836 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from southwest China. European Journal of Taxonomy 834: 117-147. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.834.1905
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Griotti, M., Grismado, C. J., Roig-Juñent, S. & Ramírez, M. J. (2022). Taxonomy and phylogenetic analysis of the South American genus Petrichus Simon (Araneae: Philodromidae) provide new insights into the running crab spiders' phylogeny. Invertebrate Systematics 36(4): 306-353. doi:10.1071/IS21068
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Yang, K. W., Zhao, H. F., Bai, S. C. & Tong, Y. F. (2023a). A new species of the genus Apneumonella Fage, 1921 (Araneae, Telemidae) from Guangdong Province, China. Zootaxa 5256(4): 392-396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5256.4.7
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Yang, W. C., Yang, J. X., Zhang, J. S. & Yu, H. (2023c). A survey of Tmarus Simon, 1875 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China. Biodiversity Data Journal 11(e105352): 1-13. doi:10.3897/BDJ.11.e105352
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Rossi, G. de F., Castanheira, P. de S., Baptista, R. L. C. & Framenau, V. W. (2023). Venomius, a new monotypic genus of Australian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae). Evolutionary Systematics 7(2): 285-292. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.7.110022
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Poy, D., Piacentini, L. N., Michalik, P., Lin, S. W. & Ramírez, M. J. (2023a). MicroCT analysis unveils the role of inflatable female genitalia and male tibial complex in the genital coupling in the spider genus Aysha (Anyphaenidae, Araneae). Journal of Morphology 284(5, e21586): 1-9. doi:10.1002/jmor.21586
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Marta, K. da S., Almeida, D. J. K., Ott, R. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2023). On jumping spider genera Rudra and Anokopsis (Araneae, Salticidae, Dendryphantina). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 58(2): 221-225. doi:10.1080/01650521.2021.1933701
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Wiese, L. & Webb, P. (2022l). First record of Leucauge argyrescens Benoit, 1978 from South Africa (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 11-12. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162
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Benhadi-Marín, J., Barrientos, J. A., Ferrández, M. Á., Henriques, S. & Morano, E. (2013). Second annotated list of selected spider families (Arachnida: Araneae) held at the University of León (Spain). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 22: 71-78.
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Hormiga, G., Kulkarni, S., Arnedo, M. A., Dimitrov, D., Giribet, G., Kallal, R. J. & Scharff, N. (2023). Genitalic morphology and phylogenomic placement of the Australian spider Paraplectanoides crassipes Keyserling, 1886 (Araneae, Araneidae) with a discussion on the classification of the family Araneidae. Invertebrate Systematics 37(12): 797-818. doi:10.1071/IS23050
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Pérez-Miles, F., Lucas, S. M., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (1996). Systematic revision and cladistic analysis of Theraphosinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Mygalomorph 1: 33-68.
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Zhu, M. S., Song, D. X., Zhang, J. X. & Gu, D. X. (2002). The Tetragnatha spiders familiar to paddy field from China. Natural Enemies of Insects 24: 77-95.
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Sunil Jose, K., Davis, S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2003a). Description of female Amyciaea forticeps (Cambridge), Araneae: Thomisidae, with a redescription of its male from Kerala, India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 100: 157-160.
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Yoo, J. S., Lee, Y. B., Choi, Y. G. & Kim, J. P. (2004a). A redescription of the male of Eldonia kayaensis (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 20: 1-5.
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Snow, L. S. E., Abdel-Mesih, A. & Andrade, R. M. G. de (2006). Broken copulatory organs are low-cost adaptations to sperm competition in redback spiders. Ethology 112: 379-389.
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Ruiz, G. R. S., Brescovit, A. D. & Freitas, G. C. C. (2007). Spiders from Fernando de Noronha, Brazil. Part II. Proposal of a new genus and description of three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24: 771-776.
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Yamamoto, F. U., Lucas, S. M., Guadanucci, J. P. L. & Indicatti, R. P. (2007). Revision of the genus Tmesiphantes Simon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 24: 971-980.
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Ferretti, N., Pompozzi, G., Copperi, S., González, A. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2010). Arañas Mygalomorphae de la provincia de Buenos Aires, Argentina: clave para la determinación de especies. BioScriba 3: 15-34.
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Kaya, R. S., Kunt, K. B., Marusik, Y. M. & Yağmur, E. A. (2010a). The first record of genus Argyrodes Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Turkey. Serket 12: 7-12.
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Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H., Park, J. E., Jang, J. H. & Son, J. H. (2013b). Redescription of Gasteracantha geminata (Fabricius, 1798) (Araneae: Araneidae) from Sri Lanka. Korean Arachnology 29: 175-181.
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Ahmed, M., Anam, J., Saikia, M. K., Manthen, S. V. & Saikia, P. K. (2014b). New records spider species under Wadicosa genus (Sub-order: Araneae; Family: Lycosidae) from agricultural field of Sonitpur District, Assam, India. Journal on New Biological Reports 3(1): 60-65.
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Huber, B. A., Neumann, J., Rehfeldt, S., Grabolle, A. & Reiser, N. (2015). Back in Europe: Quamtana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Germany. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 51-56. doi:10.5431/aramit5007
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Kim, J. P., Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H. & Hong, S. H. (2015b). A new species of the genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999 (Araneae, Sparassidae) in Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 37-44.
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Nanayakkara, R. P., Ganehiarachchi, G. A. S. M., Vishvanath, N. & Kusuminda, T. G. T. (2015). Discovery of the critically endangered tarantula species of the genus Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae), Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica, from Sri Lanka. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.01.002
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Özkütük, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Elverici, M. & Kunt, K. B. (2016). A new species of Lathys from Turkey (Araneae, Dictynidae). ZooKeys 632: 35-45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.632.10130
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Chomphuphuang, N., Smith, D., Wongvilas, S., Sivayyapram, V., Songsangchote, C. & Warrit, N. (2017). New species of Southeast Asian dwarf tarantula from Thailand: Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae). ZooKeys 684: 57-73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.684.12558
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Feitosa, N. M., Moss, D. F., Ruiz, G. R. S. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). Twenty-seven new species of the goblin spider genus Neoxyphinus Birabén, 1953 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4259(1): 1-107. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4259.1.1
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Smith, H. M., Harvey, M. S., Agnarsson, I. & Anderson, G. J. (2017). Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 69(1): 1-13. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672
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Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S. & Prado, A. W. do (2018). Notes on the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) with description of four new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 4407(3): 321-345. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.2
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Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018). First record of the spider genus Wolongia Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 from India with the description of a new species (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4407(1): 145-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.13
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Shafaie, S., Mirshamsi, O., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018a). A new Pardosa species from northern Iran (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4387(2): 350-364. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.6
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Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Gong, L. S. & Kim, J. P. (1996a). Description of three new species of the genus Hitobia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China. Korean Arachnology 12(2): 47-54.
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Hedin, M., Derkarabetian, S., Alfaro, A., Ramírez, M. J. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci. PeerJ 7(e6864): 1-24. doi:10.7717/peerj.6864
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Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019a). Taxonomic revision of the monotypic genus Psellonus Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Philodromidae). Zootaxa 4543(3): 442-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.9
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Bauer, T., Feldmeier, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Wieczorrek, C., Reiser, N. & Breitling, R. (2019). Steatoda nobilis, a false widow on the rise: a synthesis of past and current distribution trends. NeoBiota 42: 19-43. doi:10.3897/neobiota.42.31582
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Yang, Z. Z., Yang, Z. B., Zhao, Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019b). Review of the tent-web spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Zootaxa 4679(1): 126-138. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.8
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Yuan, T., Niu, C. L., Ye, X. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). A newly recorded crab-spider Monaeses israeliensis (Thomisidae) from Xinjiang, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 106-108. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.004
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Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M., Soofi, M., Koponen, S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Šestáková, A. (2019a). First record of Poltys nagpurensis (Araneae: Araneidae) from Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 4-7. doi:10.30963/aramit5702
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Tan, J., Chan, Z. J., Ong, C. A. & Yong, H. S. (2019a). Phylogenetic relationships of Actinacantha Simon, Gasteracantha Sundevall, Macracantha Hasselt and Thelacantha Simon spiny orbweavers (Araneae: Araneidae) in Peninsular Malaysia. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 32-55. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0003
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Tan, J., Chan, Z. Y., Wong, C. X., Koh, J. K. H. & Yong, H. S. (2019b). Morphological and molecular evidence supports Argiope chloreis Thorell 1877 and A. chloreides Chrysanthus 1961 (Araneidae: Argiopinae) as distinct species. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 41-58. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.41
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Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Sumesh, N. V. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019a). A new spider species of the genus Cocalus C.L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 125-130. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.10
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Zamani, A., Tanasevitch, A. V., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei). Part VI. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18(4): 233-243. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.18.4.01
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Özkütük, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Kunt, K. B. & Danışman, T. (2011). New records for spider (Araneae) fauna of Turkey: Paratrachelas maculatus (Thorell, 1875) [Corinnidae], Sintula retroversus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1875) [Linyphiidae] and Agroeca proxima (O. P.-Cambridge, 1871) [Liocranidae]. Biological Diversity and Conservation 4: 224-232.
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