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Marusik, Y. M. & Mikhailov, K. G. (2021). Revalidation of Xysticus tuberosus Thorell, 1875 (Aranei: Thomisidae) with notes on the related species. Arthropoda Selecta 30(1): 119-124. doi:10.15298/arthsel.30.1.11
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Perger, R., Rubio, G. D. & Haddad, C. R. (2021). On ant-like Synemosyna Hentz, 1846 spiders from Bolivia, with indirect evidence for polymorphic mimicry complexes (Araneae: Salticidae: Simonellini). European Journal of Taxonomy 748: 67-88. doi:10.5852/ejt.2021.748.1343
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Arnedo, M. A. & Hormiga, G. (2021). Repeated colonization, adaptive radiation and convergent evolution in the sheet‐weaving spiders (Linyphiidae) of the south Pacific Archipelago of Juan Fernandez. Cladistics 37(3): 317-342. doi:10.1111/cla.12437
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Asima, A., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Prasad, G. (2021). Description of a new species of Uloborus Latreille, 1806 (Araneae: Uloboridae) from Shendurney Wildlife Sanctuary of Western Ghats, India. Serket 18(1): 47-52.
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Liu, J. X., Huang, Z. G., Xu, X. & Yin, H. Q. (2020f). Redescription of types of three species of Leptonetidae Simon, 1890 from China (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 1000: 1-17. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1000.57660
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Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020c). Six new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 4810(1): 175-197. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.12
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Lin, Y. J., Mikhailov, K. G., Jäger, P. & Chen, H. F. (2020c). Notes on two Asian species of the spider family Deinopidae (Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 467-469. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.4.08
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Lan, T. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Ali, A., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020c). Two new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Pakistan. Zootaxa 4820(1): 177-185. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4820.1.9
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Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2020b). The open-holed trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae: Namea) of Australia’s D’Aguilar Range: revealing an unexpected subtropical hotspot of rainforest diversity. Zootaxa 4861(1): 71-91. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4861.1.5
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Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2020b). Sympolymnia, a new genus of Neotropical ant-like spider, with description of two new species and indirect evidence for transformational mimicry (Araneae, Salticidae, Simonellini). Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(2): 781-795. doi:10.3897/zse.96.55210
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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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Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). The Belisana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Tibet, China. Zootaxa 4802(1): 111-128. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.7
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Wang, L. Y., Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M., Yang, S. F. & Peng, X. J. (2020a). Five new species of Meta Koch, 1836 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 624: 1-25. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.624
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Lan, T. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Two new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guizhou and Guangxi, China. Zootaxa 4758(2): 360-368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.9
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Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2020a). First phylogenetic assessment and taxonomic synopsis of the open-holed trapdoor spider genus Namea (Mygalomorphae: Anamidae): a highly diverse mygalomorph lineage from Australia’s tropical eastern rainforests. Invertebrate Systematics 34(7): 679-726. doi:10.1071/IS20004
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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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Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Three new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4742(2): 332-342. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.6
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Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2020a). Contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical ant-like spiders: Myrmecotypus tahyinandu sp. n. from Bolivian Chiquitano forest, a new country record for M. niger, and indirect evidence for species-specific mimicry (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4790(1): 151-164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.9
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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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Benavides, L. R. & Hormiga, G. (2020). A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144-191. doi:10.1071/IS19032
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Azarkina, G. N. & Zamani, A. (2020). The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 21-25. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0003
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Huang, G. Q. & Lin, Y. J. (2020). A new species of Stiphropus (Aranei: Thomisidae) from China and first documentation of myrmecophily in this genus. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 257-261. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.12
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Surdo, S., Romano, M., Barraco, L., Altadonna, G., Ditta, A., Barbera, A., Zafarana, M. A., Dentici, A. & Morin, L. (2020). Sicilian naturalistic news: 3 Hermetia illucens; 4 Ancylolomia tripolitella; 5 Gavia immer; 6 Bucanetes githagineus; 7 Clubonia terrestris. Naturalista Siciliano (4) 44(1-2): 241-246. doi:10.5281/zenodo.4095366
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Wilson, J. D., Raven, R. J., Schmidt, D. J., Hughes, J. M. & Rix, M. G. (2020). Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia’s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini). Cladistics 36(6): 543-568. doi:10.1111/cla.12415
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Marusik, Y. M. & Azarkina, G. N. (2020). Who is Eresus tristis Kroneberg, 1875 (Aranei: Eresidae)?. Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 470-474. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.4.09
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Xu, H., Zheng, G. & Yao, Z. Y. (2020). Two new species of the spider genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 4747(1): 156-166. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.6
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Álvarez-Padilla, A., Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Nanometinae and other Australasian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 438: 1-107. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.438.1.1
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Cabra-García, J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(4): 976-1151. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088
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Hormiga, G. & Scharff, N. (2020). The malkarid spiders of New Zealand (Araneae: Malkaridae). Invertebrate Systematics 34(4): 345-405. doi:10.1071/IS19073
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Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Wiśniewski, K. (2020). A revision of Pachyballus Simon, 1900 and Peplometus Simon, 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae, Ballini) with descriptions of new species. ZooKeys 944: 47-98. doi:10.3897/zookeys.944.49921
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Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Santos, G. de los, Brescovit, A. D. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2020). The genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) from Hispaniola, with the description of four new species. Zootaxa 4894(3): 413-431. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4894.3.7
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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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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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Seyfulina, R. R., Azarkina, G. N. & Kartsev, V. M. (2020). A contribution to the knowledge of jumping spiders from Thailand (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 87-96. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.07
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Tamajón Gómez, R., Pertegal Pérez, C. & Rodríguez Castilla, G. (2020). Primeros registros de Ischnocolus valentinus (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Theraphosidae) en la provincia de Córdoba (Andalucía, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 165-166.
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Tang, J., Xu, X., Yin, H. Q., Marusik, Y. M. & Huang, Z. G. (2020). Redescription of holotypes of four Alopecosa species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from China. ZooKeys 945: 85-97. doi:10.3897/zookeys.945.52287
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Kallal, R. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Phylogenetic placement of the stone-nest orb weaving spider Nemoscolus Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae) and the description of a new Australian species. Invertebrate Systematics 34(8): 893-905. doi:10.1071/IS20035
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Chamé-Vázquez, D., Cutler, B. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2020). Further taxonomic notes on the jumping spider Synemosyna maddisoni Cutler, 1985 (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 475-480. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.4.10
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Bustamante, A. A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2020). New species and records of thiodinines from North and South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Thiodinini). Zootaxa 4899(1): 115-140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.6
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Rubio, G. D., Stolar, C. E., Nadal, M. F. & Baigorria, J. E. M. (2020). The jumping spider Tapsatella albocastanea, a new genus and species from Argentina (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina). Peckhamia 203.1: 1-9.
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Marusik, Y. M., Otto, S. & Japoshvili, G. (2020). Taxonomic notes on Amaurobius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae), including the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4718(1): 47-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.3
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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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LeMay, G. A. & Agnarsson, I. (2020). New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America. ZooKeys 915: 17-24. doi:10.3897/zookeys.915.47563
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Brescovit, A. D., Vasconcellos-Neto, J. & Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A. (2020). Notes on the “Pinocchio-cobweb-spider” Craspedisia cornuta (Keyserling, 1891) from southeastern of Brazil (Theridiidae, Pholcommatinae). Zootaxa 4750(2): 211-224. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.5
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Azarkina, G. N. (2020). Manzuma gen. nov., a new aelurilline genus of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 611: 1-47. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.611
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Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2020). Adatok a nagy eretnekpók (Amaurobius ferox [Walckenaer, 1830]) biológiájához (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) [Data on the biology of Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 18: 75-92.
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Edwards, G. B. (2020). Description of Phidippus pacosauritus sp. nov. (Salticidae: Salticinae: Dendryphantini: Dendryphantina), with a reanalysis of related species in the mystaceus group. Peckhamia 221.1: 1-18.
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Azarkina, G. N. & Haddad, C. R. (2020). Partial revision of the Afrotropical Ballini, with the description of seven new genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4899(1): 15-92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.4
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El-Hennawy, H. K., Sallam, G. M. E., El-Azim, N. A. I. A. & Fadl, H. A. A. A. (2020). The first record of Zelotes tragicus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Egypt. Serket 17(3): 306-313.
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Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Guadanucci, J. P. L., Alayón García, G., Lucas, S. M. & Silva, M. B. da (2020). Taxonomy of the genus Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae): Cuban species described by Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa. Zootaxa 4779(1): 79-90. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.5
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