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Stefani, V., Garcia, K., Vecchia, C., Silva, L. A., Guimarães, B., Tizo-Pedroso, E., Machado, E. O., Brescovit, A. D. & Del-Claro, K. (2012). Mating behaviour, nympho-imaginal development and description of a new Mesabolivar species (Araneae: Pholcidae) from the Brazilian dry forest. Journal of Natural History 46(33-34): 2117-2129. doi:10.1080/00222933.2012.707243
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Mohagan, A. B., Patano, R. R. Jr., Dargantes, K. S. A. T., Melencion, M. G., Coritico, F. P. & Amoroso, V. B. (2020). New record of Talthybia depressa (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 149(3): 523-527.
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Ramírez, M. J., Grismado, C. J., Labarque, F. M., Izquierdo, M. A., Ledford, J. M., Miller, J. A., Haddad, C. R. & Griswold, C. E. (2014). The morphology and relationships of the walking mud spiders of the genus Cryptothele (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 253(5): 382-393. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2014.03.002
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Kuntner, M., Čandek, K., Gregorič, M., Turk, E., Hamilton, C. A., Chamberland, L., Starrett, J., Cheng, R. C., Coddington, J. A., Agnarsson, I. & Bond, J. E. (2023). Increasing information content and diagnosability in family-level classifications. Systematic Biology 72(4): 964-971. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syad021
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Collier, B. L., Dugon, M. M., Nolan, M., Fort, A., Healy, K., Vitkauskaite, A., Lyons, K., Munnelly, E. J., McSharry, L. & Dunbar, J. P. (2023). A history of accidental widow spider (genus Latrodectus) introductions on the island of Ireland with a new Irish record for Latrodectus hesperus (Chamberlin and Ivie, 1935), and additional records of Latrodectus geometricus (C.L. Koch, 1841). Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Biology and Environment 123B(3): 111-120. doi:10.1353/bae.2023.a915306
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Sobczak, J. F., Sobczak, J. C. M., Padua, D., Fonseca, E. O., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Pires, J. C., Faustino, M. L. & Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A. (2019). First record of Anelosimus jucundus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896) (Araneae, Theridiidae) in the state of Ceará, Brazil. Check List 15(5): 933-936. doi:10.15560/15.5.933
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Harvey, M. S., Hillyer, M. J., Main, B. Y., Moulds, T. A., Raven, R. J., Rix, M. G., Vink, C. J. & Huey, J. A. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111
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Platnick, N. I., Abrahim, N., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Andriamalala, D., Baehr, B. C., Baert, L., Bonaldo, A. B., Brescovit, A. D., Chousou-Polydouri, N., Dupérré, N., Eichenberger, B., Fannes, W., Gaublomme, E., Gillespie, R., Grismado, C. J., Griswold, C. E., Harvey, M. S., Henrard, A., Hormiga, G., Izquierdo, M. A., Jocqué, R., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Kropf, C., Ott, R., Ramírez, M. J., Raven, R. J., Rheims, C. A., Ruiz, G. R. S., Santos, A. J., Saucedo, A., Sierwald, P., Szűts, T., Ubick, D. & Wang, X.-P. (2012a). Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera. American Museum Novitates 3736: 1-52. doi:10.1206/3736.2
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Romero, G. Q., Santos, A. J., Wienskoski, E. & Vasconcellos-Neto, J. (2007). Association of two new Coryphasia species (Araneae, Salticidae) with tank-bromeliads in southeastern Brazil: habitats and patterns of host plant use. Journal of Arachnology 35: 181-192.
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Buckup, E. H., Marques, M. A. L. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2010). Três espécies novas de Cryptachaea e notas taxonômicas em Theridiidae (Araneae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 100: 341-355.
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Carvalho, L. S., Dias, S. C., Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2010). On the female of Metagonia taruma (Araneae: Pholcidae), ecology of the pholcid spiders in the Urucu River Basin, Amazonas, Brazil and new records from Brazilian Amazonia. Zoologia (Curitiba) 27: 431-439.
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Lucas, S. M., Paula, F. dos S., Gonzalez F., H. M. O. & Brescovit, A. D. (2010). Redescription and new distribution records of Acanthoscurria paulensis (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 27: 563-568.
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Marques, M. A. L., Buckup, E. H. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2011). Novo gênero neotropical de Spintharinae (Araneae, Theridiidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 101: 372-381.
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Blagoev, G. A., Nikolova, N. I., Sobel, C. N., Hebert, P. D. & Adamowicz, S. J. (2013). Spiders (Araneae) of Churchill, Manitoba: DNA barcodes and morphology reveal high species diversity and new Canadian records. BMC Ecology 13(44): 1-17. doi:10.1186/1472-6785-13-44
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Franzini, P. Z. N., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Yessoufou, K. & Van der Bank, F. H. (2013). Combined analyses of genetic and morphological data indicate more than one species of Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae) in South Africa. International Journal of Modern Biological Research 1: 21-34.
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Paula, F. dos S., Gabriel, R., Indicatti, R. P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2014). On the Brazilian Amazonian species of Acanthoscurria (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 31(1): 63-80. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702014000100008
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Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). A revision of Neodiplothele (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(3): 225-240. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000300007
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Grismado, C. J., Izquierdo, M. A., González M., M. E. & Ramírez, M. J. (2015). The Amazonian goblin spiders of the new genus Gradunguloonops (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 3939(1): 1-67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3939.1.1
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Malamel, J. J., Sankaran, P. M., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015b). Cyrtarachne keralensis Jose, 2011 is a junior synonym of Anepsion maritatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4039(3): 478-482. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4039.3.8
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Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017a). A new species of Paratus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Liocranidae, Paratinae) from India. Zootaxa 4286(1): 139-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.12
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Ferretti, N., Cavallo, P., Chaparro, J. C., Ríos-Tamayo, D., Seimon, T. A. & West, R. (2018). The Neotropical genus Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with the description of seven new species and the highest altitude record for the family. Journal of Natural History 52(29-30): 1927-1984. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1506521
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Pedroso, D. R., Giupponi, A. P. L. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2018). Comments on the genus Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850, with description of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). ZooKeys 771: 57-71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.771.24921
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Platnick, N. I., Coddington, J. A., Forster, R. R. & Griswold, C. E. (1991). Spinneret morphology and the phylogeny of haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae). American Museum Novitates 3016: 1-73.
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Fei, R. I., Xing, S. Y., Liang, T. & Xia, Q. A. (1999). One new record genus and one new record species of Erigoninae from China. Journal of Northeast Normal University 2(2): 81-83.
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Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., Ismail, T. G. & El-Masry, S. M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Serket 16(3): 133-160.
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Sánchez-Vega, U., Villegas-Guzmán, G. A. & Durán-Barrón, C. G. (2019). Dos nuevos registros de terídidos (Araneae: Theridiidae) para San Luis Potosí y el Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 163-165.
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Miller, J. A., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N., Řezáč, M., Szűts, T. & Marhabaie, M. (2012). The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1-144. doi:10.3897/zookeys.195.2342
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Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Benjamin, S. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019b). Two new species of the genus Marengo Peckham et Peckham, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 435-444. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.08
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Caleb, J. T. D., Prajapati, D. A., Rameshwar Maheshwari, N. & Sanap, R. V. (2017b). Redescription and synonymy of Stenaelurillus arambagensis (Biswas et Biswas, 1992) comb. n. (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 119-123. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.04
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Bayram, A., Allahverdi, H., Danışman, T., Yiğit, N. & Kunt, K. B. (2008a). A new genus and species record from Turkey: Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911) (Araneae, Pholcidae). Turkish Journal of Arachnology 1(1): 91-97.
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Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020). On a new synonymy in the spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 (Araneidae, Nephilinae) from India with supplementary notes on colour polymorphism in the genus. Zootaxa 4786(4): 592-596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.4.11
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Crews, S. C., Garcia, E. L., Spagna, J. C., Van Dam, M. H. & Esposito, L. A. (2020). The life aquatic with spiders (Araneae): repeated evolution of aquatic habitat association in Dictynidae and allied taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(3): 862-920 & Suppl. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz139
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Basumatary, P., Caleb, J. T. D., Das, S., Jangid, A. K., Kalita, J. & Brahma, D. (2020a). First record of the genus Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina). Zootaxa 4790(1): 178-186. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.11
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Kaya, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Özkütük, R. S. & Kunt, K. B. (2020). New distribution records of Zangherella apuliae (Caporiacco, 1949) from Turkey (Araneae: Anapidae). Serket 17(3): 264-269.
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Harvey, M. S., Rix, M. G., Hillyer, M. J. & Huey, J. A. (2020a). The systematics and phylogenetic position of the troglobitic Australian spider genus Troglodiplura (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), with a new classification for Anamidae. Invertebrate Systematics 34(8): 799-822. doi:10.1071/IS20034
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Arnedo, M. A., Oromi, P., Múrria, C., Macías-Hernández, N. & Ribera, C. (2007). The dark side of an island radiation: systematics and evolution of troglobitic spiders of the genus Dysdera Latreille (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands. Invertebrate Systematics 21(6): 623-660. doi:10.1071/IS07015
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Dimitrov, D., Lopardo, L., Giribet, G., Arnedo, M. A., Álvarez-Padilla, F. & Hormiga, G. (2012). Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Biological Sciences 279: 1341-1350 & Suppl. 1-5. doi:10.1098/rspb.2011.2011
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Kallal, R. J., Dimitrov, D., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Monophyly, taxon sampling, and the nature of ranks in the classification of orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). Systematic Biology 69(2): 401-411. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz043
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Lucas, S. M., Indicatti, R. P., Brescovit, A. D. & Francisco, R. C. (2006). First record of the Mecicobothriidae Holmberg from Brazil, with a description of a new species of Mecicobothrium (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 1326: 45-53. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.1326.1.5
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Xu, H., Zhang, X. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Ali, A. & Li, S. Q. (2021a). Thirty-five new species of the spider genus Pimoa (Araneae,Pimoidae) from Pan-Himalaya. ZooKeys 1029: 1-92. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1029.64080
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Isaia, M., Paschetta, M., Lana, E., Pantini, P., Schönhofer, A. L., Christian, E. & Badino, G. (2011). Subterranean arachnids of the western Italian Alps. Museo Regionale Scienze Naturali Torino, Monografie 47: 1-325.
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Bond, J. E., Hamilton, C. A., Garrison, N. L. & Ray, C. H. (2012a). Phylogenetic reconsideration of Myrmekiaphila systematics with a description of the trapdoor spider species Myrmekiaphila tigris (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Euctenizinae) from Auburn, Alabama. ZooKeys 190: 95-109. doi:10.3897/zookeys.190.3011
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Kunt, K. B., Elverici, M., Özkütük, R. S. & Yağmur, E. A. (2011a). Two new species of Harpactea (Araneae, Dysderidae) from Turkey. ZooKeys 145: 129-141. doi:10.3897/zookeys.145.1713
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Tonini, L., Silva, J. P. da, Filho, A. S. & Freitas, J. (2016). Replacement names for two preoccupied generic names in Arthropoda. Zootaxa 4097(1): 125-126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.7
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Özkütük, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Elverici, M., Gücel, S., Altunsoy, F. & Kunt, K. B. (2022). New data on the East Mediterranean Nemesiidae (Aranei: Mygalomorphae). Arthropoda Selecta 31(1): 67-78. doi:10.15298/arthsel.31.1.08
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Marathe, K., Sanap, R., Joglekar, A., Caleb, J. T. D. & Maddison, W. P. (2022). Three new and notes on two other jumping spider species of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Salticidae: Aelurillina) from the Deccan Plateau, India. Zootaxa 5125(1): 1-19. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5125.1.1
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Wen, Y. L., Liao, R. R., He, A. L., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2022). A new species of the genus Hersilia from Shiwandashan Mountain, China (Araneae, Hersiliidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(1): 32-37. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.01.005
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Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Simmons, Z. M. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2016). On the type species of the genus Aetius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: the first description of male with notes on cymbial notch and mating plug (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4154(4): 489-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4154.4.9
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021g). The Desidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 7 pp. [the 2nd pdf is version 2 from 2022, which differs only slightly and has no different doi] doi:10.5281/zenodo.6619783
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021d). The Cheiracanthiidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 62 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6033586
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