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Liu, K. K., Luo, H. P., Xu, X., Chen, Z. & Xiao, Y. H. (2020c). Description of two new species of Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992 with an updated key to species (Araneae, Agelenidae). ZooKeys 944: 31-46. doi:10.3897/zookeys.944.48575
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Jäger, P. (2020c). The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae) – Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus- and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa 4866(1): 1-119. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4866.1.1
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Maddison, W. P., Beattie, I., Marathe, K., Ng, P. Y. C., Kanesharatnam, N., Benjamin, S. P. & Kunte, K. (2020b). A phylogenetic and taxonomic review of baviine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Baviini). ZooKeys 1004: 27-97. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1004.57526
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Jäger, P. (2020b). Platnickopoda gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Tanzania (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 18(5): 499-506. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.499
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Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2020b). First record of Synagelides Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka: description of four endemic species from tropical wet forest of the island. Zootaxa 4790(1): 43-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.2
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Yamasaki, T., Hyodo, F., Itioka, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T. & Meleng, P. (2020b). A new corinnid species of the genus Aetius Pickard-Cambridge (Araneae: Corinnidae) from Sarawak, Borneo. Acta Arachnologica 69(2): 105-108. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.105
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Lan, T. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G., Wongprom, P. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). Five new species of the spider genus Savarna Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa 4778(2): 311-328. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.4
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Basumatary, P., Caleb, J. T. D., Das, S. & Brahma, D. (2020b). Redescription of the net-casting spider Asianopis goalparaensis (Tikader et Malhotra, 1978) comb.n. (Araneae: Deinopidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 29(3): 325-329. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.3.04
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Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020b). A new Indian species of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887, with a new combination and a new synonymy of Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) (Araneae, Tetragnathinae). Zootaxa 4808(1): 196-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.12
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Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020a). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi:10.3897/zookeys.925.39691
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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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Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2020a). On three new species of jumping spiders of the genera Habrocestum Simon, 1876, Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 and Tamigalesus Żabka, 1988 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 5-19. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.4.47578
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Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020a). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: II. Genera Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922 and Nodocion Chamberlin, 1922 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 673: 1-14. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.673
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Jäger, P. (2020a). Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 4790(2): 245-260. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3
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Yamasaki, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T., Hyodo, F., Takao, I. & Meleng, P. (2020a). A new species of the genus Agorius (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sarawak, Borneo. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 37-41. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.37
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Lin, Y. J., Shao, L., Hänggi, A., Caleb, J. T. D., Koh, J. K. H., Jäger, P. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia. ZooKeys 911: 67-99. doi:10.3897/zookeys.911.38761
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Magalhaes, I. L. F., Azevedo, G. H. F, Michalik, P. & Ramírez, M. J. (2020a). The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic. Biological Reviews 95(1): 184-217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Webb, P., Foord, S. H. & Haddad, C. R. (2020a). New locality data for the orb-web spider Araneus coccinella Pocock, 1898 from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). SANSA News 36(Supplement): 15-16.
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Montemor, V. M., West, R. C., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M., Wirth, V. von, Wendt, I., Huber, S. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2020). Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoology in the Middle East 66(1): 76-90. doi:10.1080/09397140.2020.1675994
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Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Maréchal, P. (2020). Description of the male of Alpaida elegantula (Araneae, Araneidae) and new records of spider genera from Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 50(1): 48-53. doi:10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a7
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Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2020). Notes on slender species of the long-jawed spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4768(1): 43-75. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.4
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Fukushima, C. S., Cardoso, P. & Bertani, R. (2020). Description of the male of the Critically Endangered tarantula Typhochlaena curumim Bertani, 2012 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with comments on tarantula trade and conservation. ZooKeys 938: 125-136. doi:10.3897/zookeys.938.51442
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Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). Redescription of Asemonea cristata Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Asemoneinae), with notes on its synonymy and distribution. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 251-256. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.11
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Esyunin, S. L., Vlassov, J. P. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2020). Taxonomic remarks on the genus Caspicosa Ponomarev, 2007 (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 273-282. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.14
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Gajdoš, P., Szinetár, C., Román, K., Šestáková, A., Purgat, P. & Černecká, Ľ. (2020). Clubiona pseudoneglecta and Paratrachelas maculatus, two spider species new to the Slovak fauna (Araneae: Clubionidae, Trachelidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 44-49. doi:10.30963/aramit6009
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Lecigne, S. & Oger, P. (2020). Philodromus musteri spec. nov. of the Philodromus aureolus group from Turkey (Araneae: Philodromidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 30-33. doi:10.30963/aramit6006
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Schwendinger, P. J., Lehmann-Graber, C., Hongpadharakiree, K. & Syuhadah, N. (2020). New euagrid spider species from Thailand and Malaysia, and new localities of Leptothele bencha (Arachnida: Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(2): 423-453. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0031
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Barrientos, J. A., Silva, A., Patanita, M. I., Benhadi-Marín, J., Melic, A. & Santos, S. A. P. (2020). Diversidad de arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) en olivares del distrito de Beja (Portugal) en diferentes sistemas de cultivo. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 212-224.
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Dolejš, P. (2020). Revize materiálu Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) ve sbírkách Národního muzea v Praze [Revision of Micaria pulicaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the collection of National Museum, Prague]. Pavouk 49: 14-16.
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Sivayyapram, V., Kunsete, C., Songsangchote, C., Thanoosing, C., Traiyasut, P. & Warrit, N. (2020). Two new species of the Southeast Asian dwarf tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1887 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae) and a discussion on the taxonomic problem of the genus. Zootaxa 4859(4): 487-506, 4869(4): 599-600. , 10.11646/zootaxa.4869.4.7 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4859.4.2
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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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Ballarin, F. & Pantini, P. (2020). Three new species and new records of the genus Centromerus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Italy. European Journal of Taxonomy 660: 1-23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.660
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Pantoja, P., Drago-Bisneto, M. & Saturnino, R. (2020). Updates on Berlandiella (Araneae: Philodromidae): a new species, description of the male of B. querencia and new diagnosis for the genus. Zoologia 37(e37384): 1-13. doi:10.3897/zoologia.37.e37384
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Pantini, P., Bonelli, D. & Bonacci, T. (2020). I ragni epigei (Arachnida, Araneae) di un ambiente litoraneo della Calabria. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 32: 25-32.
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Vidal, E., Déjean, S., Danflous, S. & Oger, P. (2020). Découverte en France de Silometopus bonessi Casemir, 1970 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 7: 2-7.
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Lecigne, S., Lips, J., Moutaouakil, S. & Oger, P. (2020). Two new cave-dwelling spider species from the Moroccan High Atlas (Araneae: Liocranidae, Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 60: 12-18. doi:10.30963/aramit6002
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Pantini, P., Mazzoleni, F., Gobbi, M. & Pedrotti, L. (2020). Ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) di interesse biogeografico e conservazionistico nel parco nazionale dello Stelvio (Italia). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 33: 23-53.
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Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2020). Ischnocolinae and Schismatothelinae. In: Pérez-Miles, F. (ed.) New World Tarantulas. Zoological Monographs, 6, pp. 77-91. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48644-0_3
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Nanayakkara, R. P., Ganehiarachchi, G. A. S. M., Kusuminda, T., Vishvanath, N., Karunaratne, M. K. & Kirk, P. (2020). A new species of Tiger spider in the genus Poecilotheria Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Belihuloya, Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019): 3-17. [publ. in Jan. 2020; one of the authors misspelled as Ganehiarachi]
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Muster, C. & Michalik, P. (2020). Cryptic diversity in ant‐mimic Micaria spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and a tribute to early naturalists. Zoologica Scripta 49(2): 197-209 & Appendices. doi:10.1111/zsc.12404
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Molina-Gómez, D., Pizzetti, D. D. P. & Teixeira, R. A. (2020). Taxonomic notes on Stephanopoides (Araneae: Thomisidae): new records and description of the male of S. cognata. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 55(1): 51-57. doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1694800
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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi:10.30963/aramit5904
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Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Simonov, P. S. (2020). A redescription of Aculepeira matsudae (Aranei: Araneidae), a species recently found in Far East Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 121-126. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.10
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Paquin, P., Dupérré, N., Buckle, D. J. & Ubick, D. (2020). Caves as a key habitat for rare and endemic species of the west coast of North America: a taxonomic revision of the spider genus Oaphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4819(2): 349-363. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4819.2.7
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Derepas, B., Michaud, A., Mattei, M., Bloor, J. & Carrère, P. (2020). Découverte en France de Porrhomma errans (Blackwall, 1841) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique (2) 7: 32-34.
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Prajapati, D. A., Malamel, J. J. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020). First record of Uroballus Simon, 1902 from India, with description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Simaethina). Arachnology 18(6): 629-631. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.629
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Hajdamowicz, I., Rozwałka, R., Stańska, M., Rutkowski, T. & Sienkiewicz, P. (2020). Xerophilic Alopecosa sulzeri (Pavesi, 1873) (Araneae: Lycosidae) – a new wolf spider species in Poland. Zootaxa 4899(1): 175-185. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.9
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Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2020). Forty-seven new species of Sinopoda from Asia with a considerable extension of the distribution range to the south and description of a new species group (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 4797(1): 1-101. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4797.1.1
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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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Matysiak, J.-P. (2020). La Noble Fausse Veuve Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) - Araneae, Theridiidae, dans le Nord de la France. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 63-66.
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