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Huber, B. A., Carvalho, L. S. & Benjamin, S. P. (2014). On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 28(4): 432-450. doi:10.1071/IS13050
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Guerrero-Fuentes, D. R. & Desales-Lara, M. A. (2020). Nuevos registros de arañas (Araneae) del Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 147-149.
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Marusik, Y. M., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2010). A new subfamily of amaurobiid spiders (Aranei: Amaurobiidae) from west Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 19(4): 227-236. doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.4.03
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Kovblyuk, M. M., Kastrygina, Z. A. & Omelko, M. M. (2014). New Lathys Simon, 1884 species from Crimea (Aranei: Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 195-198. doi:10.15298/arthsel.23.2.08
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Marusik, Y. M., Mikhailov, K. G. & Kuzmin, E. A. (2015). On the synonymy of Tetragnatha qiuae (Aranei: Tetragnathidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 443-444. doi:10.15298/arthsel.24.4.07
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Topçu, A., Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2006a). A contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae). In: Deltshev, C. & Stoev, P. (eds.) European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, Supplement 1: 335-338.
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Kulkarni, S., Vartak, A., Deshpande, V. & Halali, D. (2017). The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4291(3): 504-520. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4291.3.4
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Oketch, D. A, Kioko, E. N. & Li, S. Q. (2021). Three new species of the genus Toxoniella (Araneae, Liocranidae) from Mount Kenya National Park, Kenya. African Invertebrates 62(1): 273-286. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.62.62963
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Brescovit, A. D., Sherwood, D. & Lucas, S. M. (2021). First description of the males of Diplura sanguinea (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) and Diplura nigra (F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) from Brazilian Amazonia, with notes on biogeography and opisthosomal patterning (Araneae: Dipluridae). Arachnology 18(7): 681-689. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.681
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Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2021a). Revision of Indian wolf spiders: I. Genus Arctosa C.L. Koch, 1847 (Araneae: Lycosidae, Tricassinae). Zootaxa 4908(4): 489-504. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4908.4.3
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Thumar, R. H., Dholakia, A. H. & Ade, P. P. (2021). First record of the genus Angaeus (Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae) from Gujarat – India. Journal of Research & Development 11(24): 8-11.
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Prajapati, D. A., Tatu, K. & Kamboj, R. D. (2021a). Redescription and junior synonyms of Plexippus clemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 18(8): 809-811. doi:10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.809
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Machado, E. O., Brescovit, A. D. & Francisco, R. C. (2007). Three new ground dweller Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil. Zootaxa 1560: 55-61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1560.1.5
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Astrin, J. J., Misof, B. & Huber, B. A. (2007). The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 1646: 17-30. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1646.1.2
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Zamani, A., Chatzaki, M., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2021a). One new genus and nineteen new species of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Iran, with other taxonomic considerations. European Journal of Taxonomy 751: 68-114. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.751.1381
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Almeida-Silva, L. M., Griswold, C. E. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa. Zootaxa 2630: 30-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2630.1.2
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Hradská, I., Rückl, K., Kůrka, A. & Dolejš, P. (2021). Four spider species (Araneae: Atypidae, Theridiidae, Linyphiidae) new for the Bohemian Forest, Czech Republic. Silva Gabreta 27: 133-142.
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Duffey, E., Locket, G. H. & Millidge, A. F. (1954). On some spiders collected in East Suffolk and Essex. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (12) 7(78): 474-478. doi:10.1080/00222935408656064
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Siliwal, M., Kananbala, A., Bhubaneshwari, M. & Raven, R. (2015). Natural history and two new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell 1878 (Araneae: Ctenizidae) from India. Journal of Arachnology 43(1): 34-39. doi:10.1636/K14-30.1
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Martínez, L., Brescovit, A. D. & Cuervo, L. G. Q. (2022). Revealing the diversity of ant-eating spiders in Colombia I: morphology, distribution and taxonomy of the barronus group of the genus Tenedos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 5130(1): 1-154. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5130.1.1
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Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Helsdingen, P. J. van (1978). Proposed use of Plenary Powers to conserve the specific name tenebricola, as published in Linyphia by Wider, 1834, but in the sense of Kulczynski, 1887 (Arachnida). Z.N.(S.) 2143. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 35(1): 44-46.
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Alviola, G. L., Mohagan, A. B. & Janicki, M. (2021). New species of genus Gasteracantha (Araneae: Araneidae) in Mindanao, Philippines. International Journal of Agriculture, Environment and Bioresearch 6(2): 11-14. doi:10.35410/IJAEB.2021.5617
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Amulya, K. B., Sebastian, H. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022b). A new lynx spider of the genus Hamataliwa Keyserling, 1887 (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from Kerala, India. Serket 18(4): 447-450.
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El-Hennawy, H. K., Al-Saraireh, M. & Afifeh, B. A. (2022). Latrodectus tredecimguttatus (Rossi, 1790) (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Jordan. Serket 18(4): 516-522.
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Locket, G. H., Millidge, A. F. & Merrett, P. (1974). British Spiders, Volume III. Ray Society, London, 315 pp.
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Kulczycki, A., Legittimo, C. M., Simeon, E. & Di Pompeo, P. (2012). New records of Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae, Theridiidae), an introduced species on the Italian mainland and in Sardinia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15(8): 269-272. doi:10.13156/arac.2012.15.1.269
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Quijano-Ravell, A. F. & Castellanos-Sturemark, I. E. (2022). Presencia del género Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae) en la Zona Metropolitana de Pachuca, Hidalgo, México. Biológicas Revista de la DES Ciencias Biológico Agropecuarias Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo 21(1): 17-24.
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De Wet, J. I. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. (1991). A revision of the genus Ceratogyrus Pocock (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Koedoe 34: 39-68.
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Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2023). Micaria micans (Blackwall, 1858) and M. pulicaria (Sundevall, 1831) (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) in the southeast of the Russian Plain and the Russian Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 19(1): 49-56. doi:10.23885/181433262023191-4956
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Berry, J. W., Beatty, J. A. & Prószyński, J. (1996). Salticidae of the Pacific Islands. I. Distributions of twelve genera, with descriptions of eighteen new species. Journal of Arachnology 24(3): 214-253.
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Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Henrard, A. & Fowler, L. (2023b). The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306(3): 397-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.8
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Bauab-Vianna, M. J. & Soares, B. A. M. (1978d). Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae do Brasil. III. (Araneae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 38: 359-361.
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Bauab-Vianna, M. J. & Soares, B. A. M. (1978a). Contribuição ao estudo dos Salticidae do Brasil (Araneae). Revista Brasileira de Biologia 38: 19-22.
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Feitosa, N. M., Ott, R. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2023). Meeting the southern brothers: a revision of the Neotropical spider genus Hexapopha Platnick, Berniker & Víquez, 2014 (Araneae, Oonopidae). Zootaxa 5329(1): 1-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5329.1.1
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Castellucci, F., Schifani, E., García, F., Luchetti, A. & Scharff, N. (2023). First record of the genus Thyreosthenius (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from the Iberian Peninsula with notes on the host preference of the myrmecophilic T. biovatus. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 65: 27-30. doi:10.30963/aramit6506
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Esyunin, S. L., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2023). Redescriptions of two poorly known species of Zodariellum Andreeva & Tystshenko, 1968 (Araneae, Zodariidae) from Uzbekistan. Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics 9(4): 703-709. doi:10.52547/jibs.9.4.703
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Coşar, İ., Danışman, T., Yağmur, E. A. & Kunt, K. B. (2023). Notes on the genus Stalagtia from Turkey with description of a new species (Araneae, Dysderidae). Zootaxa 5352(2): 289-295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5352.2.10
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Asima, A., Caleb, J. T. D. & Prasad, G. (2023b). A new species of Pancorius Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Western Ghats, India. Arachnology 19(6): 931-935. doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.931
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A., Walt, V. van der & Webb, P. (2022). New locality records for the white spotted crab spider Firmicus bragantinus (Brito Capello, 1866) from South Africa (Araneae: Thomisidae). SANSA Newsletter 40(2021): 10-12.
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Sibi, K. K., Gigi, P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2023). First report of the jumping spider Epeus daiqini (Patoleta, Gardzińska & Żabka, 2020) (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Natura Somogyiensis 41: 79-84. doi:10.24394/NatSom.2023.41.79
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Cajade, M., Laborda, Á., Hagopián, D. & Simó, M. (2023a). The spider genus Pseudotyphistes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in Uruguay: a new species and new records. Zootaxa 5284(2): 390-396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5284.2.10
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Marusik, Y. M., Mikhailov, K. G. & Zamani, A. (2023). The first case of an abnormally developed bulb in Dictynidae, and the first case of a malformed conductor in spiders (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 32(4): 455-458. doi:10.15298/arthsel.32.4.09
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Yağmur, E. A., Kaya, R. S. & Anlaş, S. (2023). First record of rare spider Walckenaeria incisa (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1871) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Türkiye. Commagene Journal of Biology 7(2): 147-151. doi:10.31594/commagene.1396206
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Kunt, K. B., Yağmur, E. A. & Özkütük, R. S. (2023). Harpactea umay sp. n., a new spider species from Türkiye (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 20(1): 20-25.
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Faustino-Magalhaes, M. D., Piacentini, L. N. & Santos, A. J. (2024). The desert wolf-spider genus Xenoctenus: two endemic species from the Brazilian Caatinga, and a redescription of the type-species, X. unguiculatus (Araneae: Xenoctenidae). Zootaxa 5399(5): 517-539. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5399.5.3
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Carvalho, L. S., Braga-Pereira, G. F. & Santos, A. J. (2024). Two new species of Fernandezina Birabén, 1951 (Araneae, Palpimanidae) from cave and epigean habitats in Brazil. Zootaxa 5415(1): 181-192. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5415.1.9
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Brescovit, A. D., Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A., Sobczak, J. C. M. S. M., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Oliveira, L. F. M., Arruda, I. D. P. & Sobczak, J. F. (2019a). Macrophyes pacoti n. sp. (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with notes on an araneopathogenic fungus. Zootaxa 4629(2): 294-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.12
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Henrard, A., Baert, L., De Smedt, P., Gardini, G., Vanhercke, L., Jocqué, R., Oger, P., Kekenbosch, R., Van Nieuwenhove, C., Lock, K. & Drumont, A. (2022). On the arachnofauna of the Jean Massart botanical garden (Brussels-Capital Region, Belgium). Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 37(2): 122-137.
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Gorneau, J. A., Crews, S. C., Cala-Riquelme, F., Montana, K. O., Spagna, J. C., Ballarin, F., Almeida-Silva, L. M. & Esposito, L. A. (2023). Webs of intrigue: museum genomics elucidate relationships of the marronoid spider clade (Araneae). Insect Systematics and Diversity 7(5, 5): 1-18. doi:10.1093/isd/ixad021
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Miller, J. A., Carmichael, A., Ramírez, M. J., Spagna, J. C., Haddad, C. R., Řezáč, M., Johannesen, J., Král, J., Wang, X. P. & Griswold, C. E. (2010). Phylogeny of entelegyne spiders: affinities of the family Penestomidae (NEW RANK), generic phylogeny of Eresidae, and asymmetric rates of change in spinning organ evolution (Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 55: 786-804.
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