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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021r). The Orsolobidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 12 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6802531
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Booysen, R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021u). The Scytodidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 41 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7157802
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021t). The Phyxelididae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 47 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6813843
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020p). The Palpimanidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 25 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.6813794
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021w). The Sicariidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 24 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7162164
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2021y). The Telemidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 7 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7179547
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Šestáková, A., Černecká, Ľ., Naumova, M., Purgat, P., Szita, É. & Gajdoš, P. (2022). A review of two very rare ground spiders from sandy habitats, new for Slovakia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 14-24. doi:10.30963/aramit6402
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020w). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 3 Sm-T. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 79 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513278
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020v). The Thomisidae of South Africa. Part 2 My-R. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 67 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7513276
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2023d). The Filistatidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 7 pp. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7567348
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Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Clark, H. L. & Cazanove, G. (2023d). First blind daddy long-legs spiders from Australia and Réunion (Araneae, Pholcidae). Subterranean Biology 46: 1-19. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.46.105798
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Hoang, Q. D., Wang, L. Y., Tran, T. M. H., Nguyen, A. D. & Zhang, Z. S. (2023a). A new jumping spider species of the genus Indopadilla Caleb et Sankaran, 2019 (Aranei: Salticidae) from the Central Highlands, Vietnam. Arthropoda Selecta 32(1): 89-93. doi:10.15298/arthsel.32.1.08
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Poy, D., Piacentini, L. N., Lin, S. W., Martínez, L. A., Ramírez, M. J. & Michalik, P. (2023b). Copulatory mechanics of ghost spiders reveals a new self-bracing mechanism in entelegyne spiders. Ecology and Evolution 13(10, e10582): 1-11. doi:10.1002/ece3.10582
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Huber, B. A., Meng, G. L., Dupérré, N., Astrin, J. J. & Herrera, M. (2023f). Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species group and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 909: 1-63. doi:10.5852/ejt.2023.909.2351
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Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-R., P., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2023j). On the tarantula genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with description of a new species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527. doi:10.3390/taxonomy3040029
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Haddad, C. R., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Roux, C. & Webb, P. (2022). Observations on the Kalahari ground spider Asemesthes subnubilus Simon, 1887 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). SANSA Newsletter 42: 20-22.
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Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Lotz, L. N., Roux, C. & Webb, P. (2022m). First records of the white widow spider Latrodectus pallidus O.P.-Cambridge, 1872 from South Africa (Araneae: Theridiidae). SANSA Newsletter 43: 21-22. doi:10.5281/zenodo.7142162
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Cajade, M., Hagopián, D., Rodrigues, E. N. L., Laborda, Á., Maldonado, M. B. & Simó, M. (2023b). Two new species of the spider genus Agyneta (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Uruguay and Brazil. Zootaxa 5380(6): 562-576. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5380.6.4
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Brescovit, A. D., Lucas, S. M., Marques-da-Silva, E., Sherwood, D. & Silvério, H. F. (2023a). First description of the female of Psalistopoides fulvimanus Mello-Leitão, 1934 (Araneae: Pycnothelidae). Arachnology 19(5): 802-804. doi:10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.802
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Abdel-Ghani, D. M. A., Hassan, M. F. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2023). Spiders as a bio-agent factor in a mango greenhouse at Giza Governorate, Egypt. Serket 20(1): 26-38.
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Cajade, M., Hagopián, D., Rodrigues, E. N. L., Guerrero, J. C., Laborda, Á. & Simó, M. (2024). A new species and new records of the spider genus Dubiaranea (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from southern Brazil and Uruguay, with an analysis of the potential distribution of the species. Zootaxa 5437(2): 223-224. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5437.2.3
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Blick, T., Finch, O.-D., Harms, K. H., Kiechle, J., Kielhorn, K.-H., Kreuels, M., Malten, A., Martin, D., Muster, C., Nährig, D., Platen, R., Rödel, I., Scheidler, M., Staudt, A., Stumpf, H. & Tolke, D. (2016). Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70(4): 383-510.
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Kropf, C., Blick, T., Brescovit, A. D., Chatzaki, M., Dupérré, N., Gloor, D., Haddad, C. R., Harvey, M. S., Jäger, P., Marusik, Y. M., Ono, H., Rheims, C. A. & Nentwig, W. (2019). How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed “pragmatic classification” of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4545(3): 444-446. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.10
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Aakra, K., Morka, G. H., Antonson, A., Farlund, M., Wrånes, R. E., Frølandshagen, R., Løvbrekke, H., Furuseth, P., Fjellberg, A., Lemke, M., Pfliegler, W. P., Andersen, S., Olsen, K. M., Aadland, B. & Berggren, K. (2016). Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63(1): 6-43.
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Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Hadjiconstantis, M., Komnenov, M., Bosselaers, J., Huber, S., McCowan, D., Snazell, R., Decae, A., Zoumides, C., Kielhorn, K.-H. & Oger, P. (2019b). Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 34(Supplement): 1-173.
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Gavish-Regev, E., Armiach Steinpress, I., Salman, I. N. A., Segev, N., Uzan, A., Byun, Y., Levy, T., Aharon, S., Zvik, Y., Shtuhin, R., Shapira, Y., Majer, M., Ganem, Z., Zonstein, S., Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Lubin, Y. (2022). Five-year monitoring of a desert burrow-dwelling spider following an environmental disaster indicates long-term impacts. Insects 13(101): 1-26. doi:10.3390/insects13010101
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Nanayakkara, R. P., Kirk, P. J., Dayananda, S. K., Ganehiarachchi, G. A. S. M., Vishvanath, N. & Kusuminda, T. G. T. (2012). A new species of tiger spider, genus Poecilotheria, from northern Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 28: 6-15.
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Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Grabolle, A., Oger, P., Pantini, P., Van Keer, J., Pfliegler, W. P., Jantscher, E. & Dolanský, J. (2016a). East meets West: on the true identity of Cheiracanthium rupestre and Xysticus albomaculatus (Arachnida: Araneae: Eutichuridae, Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 38-49. doi:10.5431/aramit5208
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Rossi, G. de F., Ghirotto, V. M., Galleti-Lima, A., Indicatti, R. P. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2021). “Flying” or digging? The trapdoor spider genus Neocteniza Pocock, 1895: redescription of three species, new records from Brazil, notes on natural history and first record of ballooning for Idiopidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 5023(4): 451-485. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5023.4.1
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Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H., Choi, D. Y., Park, S. J., Kim, A. Y. & Kim, S. K. (2021b). Five new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae: Pholcidae) from South Korea. Zootaxa 5052(1): 61-77. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5052.1.3
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Guariento, L. A., Bonvicini, M. C., Ballarin, L., Devincenzo, U., Gardini, G., Moretto, E., Pantini, P. & Nicolosi, P. (2018). Giovanni Canestrini's heritage at the Zoology Museum of Padova University (Italy): a rediscovery of his arachnological collections and described species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 36-41. doi:10.30963/aramit5506
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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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Szűts, T., Szabó, K., Zamani, A., Forman, M., Miller, J., Oger, P., Fabregat, M., Kovács, G. & Gál, J. (2023). A study in scarlet: integrative taxonomy of the spider genus Loureedia (Araneae: Eresidae). Diversity 15(238): 1-26. doi:10.3390/d15020238
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Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H., Choi, D. Y., Park, S. J., Kim, A. Y. & Kim, S. K. (2021a). Four new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 10(1): 86-98. doi:10.12651/JSR.2021.10.1.086
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Anju, K. B., Sen, S., Asha, T. J., Sudhin, P. P., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Castanheira, P. de S. (2024). Taxonomic notes and new records of Tetragnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) in India, with the redescription of three species. Arachnology 19(7): 988-997. doi:10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.988
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Sajid, M., Zahid, M., Butt, A., Khan, M. T., Shah, M., Attaullah, S., Khan, M. I. & Ahmad, R. (2023). Faunistic and DNA barcoding of the recorded spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Hersiliidae and Salticidae) from Lower Dir (Pakistan). International Journal of Agriculture and Biology 29(1): 23-30. doi:10.17957/IJAB/15.1999
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Lucas, S. M., Filho, H. M. O. G., Paula, F. d. S., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A. D. (2011). Redescription and new distribution records of Acanthoscurria natalensis (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 28: 525-530.
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Zhang, J. S., Marusik, Y. M., Oketch, D. A, Kioko, E. N., Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2021a). Resurrection of the spider genus Bucliona Benoit, 1977, with a description of a new species from Kenya (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa 5006(1): 195-207. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5006.1.21
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Murphy, N. P., Framenau, V. W., Donnellan, S. C., Harvey, M. S., Park, Y. C. & Austin, A. D. (2006). Phylogenetic reconstruction of the wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) using sequences from the 12S rRNA, 28S rRNA, and NADH1 genes: implications for classification, biogeography, and the evolution of web building behavior. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 38(3): 583-602. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2005.09.004
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Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Kronestedt, T., Alderweireldt, M., Bosselaers, J. & De Koninck, H. (2013). Spiders of Crete (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from the Greek island of Crete. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 28(supplement 1): 1-147.
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Piacentini, L. N., Scioscia, C. L., Carbajal, M. N., Ott, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Ramírez, M. J. (2017). A revision of the wolf spider genus Diapontia Keyserling, and the relationships of the subfamily Sosippinae (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 75(3): 387-415 & Suppl. 1+2.
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Breitling, R., Merches, E., Muster, C., Duske, K., Grabolle, A., Hohner, M., Komposch, C., Lemke, M., Schäfer, M. & Blick, T. (2020). Liste der Populärnamen der Spinnen Deutschlands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 38-62. doi:10.30963/aramit5907
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Dimitrov, D., Benavides, L. R., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. (2017). Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). Cladistics 33(3): 221-250 & Suppl. doi:10.1111/cla.12165
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Maddison, W. P., Ruiz, G. R. S., Ng, P. Y. C., Vishnudas, E. H. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2022). Kelawakaju gen. nov., a new Asian lineage of marpissine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Marpissina). ZooKeys 1130: 79-102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1130.87730
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Wang, L. Y., Lu, T., Cai, D. C., Barrion, A. T., Heong, K. L., Li, S. Q. & Zhang, Z. S. (2021a). Review of the wolf spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zoological Systematics 46(1): 16-74. doi:10.11865/zs.2021102
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Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Patel, K. G., Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2018a). First description of the female of Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879) (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India, with notes on the species’ distribution and life history. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 143-153. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.06
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Greene, A., Breisch, N. L., Boardman, T., Pagac, B. B., Kunickis, E., Howes, R. K. & Brown, P. V. (2009). The Mediterranean recluse spider, Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour): an abundant but cryptic inhabitant of deep infrastructure in the Washington, D.C. Area (Arachnida: Araneae: Sicariidae). American Entomologist 55(3): 158-167. doi:10.1093/ae/55.3.158
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Gonzalez-Filho, H. M. O., Lucas, S. M., Paula, F. dos S., Indicatti, R. P. & Brescovit, A. D. (2012). On the taxonomy of Acanthoscurria Ausserer from southeastern Brazil with data on the natural history of A. gomesiana Mello-Leitão (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). International Journal of Zoology 721793: 1-11. doi:10.1155/2012/721793
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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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Bodkhe, A. K., Uniyal, V. P., Kamble, S. S., Quasin, S., Santape, G. B., Chikhale, M. P. & Deshmukh, S. M. (2021). First record of male Tropizodium viridurbium Prajapati, Murthappa, Sankaran & Sebastian, 2016 from Melghat forest (Araneae: Zodariidae) India. Serket 17(4): 413-419.
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