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Agnarsson, I., Jencik, B. B., Veve, G. M., Hanitriniaina, S., Agostini, D., Goh, S. P., Pruitt, J. & Kuntner, M. (2015). Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas. ZooKeys 509: 13-52. doi:10.3897/zookeys.509.8897

Ahmed, J., Satam, Y., Khalap, R. & Mohan, K. (2015a). A new species of tree dwelling Peucetia Thorell, 1869 from Mumbai, India (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 49-55.

Ahmed, J., Satam, Y., Khalap, R. & Mohan, K. (2015b). A new species of Dictis L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Scytodidae) from Mumbai, India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 59-63.

Ahmed, J., Satam, Y., Khalap, R. & Mohan, K. (2015c). First record of Portia albimana (Simon, 1900) from Maharashtra, Mumbai (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae). Peckhamia 129.1: 1-6.

Ahmed, J., Sumukha, J. N., Khalap, R., Mohan, K. & Jadhav, B. (2015d). First record of the spider genus Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867 from India, with a description of a new species. (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtarachninae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 1-5.

Ahmed, J., Sumukha, J. N., Khalap, R., Mohan, K. & Jadhav, B. (2015e). A new species of Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae) from the 'Kans' of Karnataka, India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 10-15.

Ahmed, J., Sumukha, J. N., Khalap, R., Mohan, K. & Jadhav, B. (2015f). A new species of Cyrtarachne, Thorell, 1868 (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtarachninae) from the sacred grove forests of central Western Ghats, India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 16-21.

Aisen, S. & Ramírez, M. J. (2015). A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Oxysoma Nicolet (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae). Zootaxa 3997(1): 1-61. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3997.1.1

Almeida-Silva, L. M., Griswold, C. E. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). Revision of Emmenomma Simon (Amaurobiidae, Macrobuninae). Zootaxa 3931(3): 387-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.3.3

Álvarez-Padilla, F., Ubick, D. & Griswold, C. E. (2015). Indian Ocean goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae): four new species of pelicinoids from Madagascar, with a redescription of the type species Silhouettella curieusei Benoit, 1979. American Museum Novitates 3835: 1-31.

Andía, J. M. & Grismado, C. J. (2015). Description of the male of Cybaeodamus lycosoides (Nicolet), with new distributional data for C. meridionalis Lise, Ott & Rodrigues (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 17(1): 71-76.

Araújo, M. H. S. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2015). Description of four new species of Hypaeus Simon and redescription of H. taczanowskii Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycinae). Zootaxa 3963(1): 27-44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3963.1.2

Azarkina, G. N. & Komnenov, M. (2015). Descriptions of two new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Mediterranean, with the synonymization of A. steliosi Dobroruka, 2002. ZooKeys 516: 109-122. doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.9439

Azarkina, G. N. & Foord, S. H. (2015). A review of three Tusitala (Araneae: Salticidae) species from southern Africa, with a new synonymy and description of a new species from Botswana. African Invertebrates 56(2): 285-307.

Azarkina, G. N., Marusik, Y. M. & Antonenko, T. V. (2015). First description of the male of Alopecosa azsheganovae Esyunin, 1996 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4033(2): 265-269. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4033.2.5

Bäckstam, C. M. (2015). Complementary taxonomic data on the Bolivian spider Diplura erlandi (Tullgren, 1905) with emphasis on complications with the male lectotype (Araneae: Dipluridae: Diplurinae). Arachnology 16(7): 255-259. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.7.255

Ballarin, F. & Li, S. Q. (2015). Three new genera of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tibet and Yunnan, China. Zoological Systematics 40(2): 179-190. doi:10.11865/zs.20150203

Barrientos, J. A., Miñano, J. & Mestre, L. (2015). Primera cita de Evippa Simon, 1882 para Europa occidental y descripción del macho de Evippa kirchshoferae Roewer, 1959 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 3-12.

Barrientos, J. A., Uribarri, I. & García-Sarrión, R. (2015). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Turó de l'Home (Parc Natural del Montseny, Cataluña, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 61-74.

Barrientos, J. A. & Fernández, D. (2015). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del delta del Llobregat (Barcelona, España); primeros datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 127-135.

Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A., Barrion, A. T. & Rasalan, J. B. (2015). A new cave-dwelling mygalomorph spider of the genus Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Selenocosmiinae) from Burdeos, Polillo Island, Quezon province, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 8(2014): 1-15.

Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2015). Chrysso makiling, a new species of comb-footed spider (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Mt. Makiling, Laguna, Luzon Island, Philippines. Asia Life Sciences 24(1): 21-26.

Bauer, T., Freudenschuss, M. & Grabolle, A. (2015). Plexippoides flavescens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) and Menemerus marginatus (Kroneberg, 1875), new records for Pakistan (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 87-90.

Benjamin, S. P. (2015a). On the African crab spider genus Geraesta Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Thomisidae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 309-318.

Benjamin, S. P. (2015b). Model mimics: antlike jumping spiders of the genus Myrmarachne from Sri Lanka. Journal of Natural History 49(43-44): 2609-2666. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1034209

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Lynx spiders of Khulna District of Bangladesh: genus Oxyopes Latreille (Areaneae[sic]: Oxyopidae). Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 43(2): 221-238. doi:10.3329/bjz.v43i2.27394

Bodkhe, A. K., Manthen, S. V. & Uniyal, V. P. (2015). First record of Theridion melanostictum O.P.-Cambridge, 1876 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India. Serket 14(3): 111-115.

Bodkhe, A. K. & Manthen, S. V. (2015). A new species of the genus Dolichognatha O. P. Cambridge, 1869 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 26-29.

Bolzern, A., Platnick, N. I. & Berniker, L. (2015). Three new genera of soft-bodied goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Mexico, Belize, and Guatemala. American Museum Novitates 3824: 1-59.

Bolzern, A. & Jäger, P. (2015). Unexpected occurrence of the genus Eratigena in Laos with description of a new species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 3920(3): 431-442. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3920.3.2

Bosmans, R. & Gasparo, F. (2015). A new cave-dwelling Centromerus from Sardinia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 46(1-2, 2014): 113-116. doi:10.4081/fe.2014.73

Bosmans, R. (2015). Sur quelques espèces du genre Centromerus Simon, 1884 de France et d’Espagne (Aranaeae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 23-27.

Bosmans, R., Déjean, S., Oger, P. & Ponel, P. (2015). Description du mâle inconnu de Centromerus ictericus (Simon, 1929) N. stat., N. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 28-31.

Bosmans, R. & Hervé, C. (2015). Tmarus horvathi Kulczyński, 1895, synonyme plus récent de Tmarus punctatissimus (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Thomisidae), avec de nouvelles données sur la distribution de l’espèce. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 38-40.

Bosmans, R. & Van Keer, J. (2015). Description of Cithaeron dippenaarae sp. n. from Morocco (Araneae: Cithaeronidae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 319-323.

Bosmans, R. & Colombo, M. (2015). New species of spiders from Sardinia (Araneae), with ecological notes on Lipocrea epeiroides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16(9): 319-332.

Breitling, R. (2015a). Linyphia bilobata Roy & al., 2015, is a junior synonym of Chrysso scintillans (Thorell, 1895) (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Theridiidae). Contributions to Natural History 30: 1-7.

Breitling, R., Lemke, M., Bauer, T., Hohner, M., Grabolle, A. & Blick, T. (2015). Phantom spiders: notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 65-80. doi:10.5431/aramit5010

Bustamante, A. A., Maddison, W. P. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2015). The jumping spider genus Thiodina Simon, 1900 reinterpreted, and revalidation of Colonus F.O.P-Cambridge, 1901 and Nilakantha Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida). Zootaxa 4012(1): 181-190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.1.10

Cala-Riquelme, F., Gutiérrez-Estrada, M. A. & Flórez D., E. (2015). The genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae) in Colombia, with description of new cave-dwelling species. Zootaxa 4012(2): 396-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.2.12

Caleb T. D., J. & Mathai, M. T. (2015). Description of a new species of Harmochirus Simon (Araneae: Salticidae) from South India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 10(1): 117-121.

Caleb T. D., J., Mungkung, S. & Mathai, M. T. (2015). Four new species of jumping spider (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillinae) with the description of a new genus from South India. Peckhamia 124.1: 1-18.

Caleb, J. T. D. & Karthikeyani, R. (2015). A new jumping spider of the genus Cosmophasis Simon 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Maharashtra, India. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(2): 97-99.

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2015). A new species of Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 105(3): 372-375. doi:10.1590/1678-476620151053372375

Castro, D., Baptista, R., Grismado, C. & Ramírez, M. J. (2015). New species and records of Otiothopinae from the Southern Atlantic Rainforest, with notes on the claw tufts in Fernandezina Birabén (Araneae: Palpimanidae). Zootaxa 4012(3): 465-478. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.3

Cavallo, P. E. & Ferretti, N. E. (2015). The first Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Argentina: description and natural history of Hapalotremus martinorum sp. nov.. Journal of Natural History 49(15-16): 873-887. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.953226

Chen, L., Li, S. Q. & Zhao, Z. (2015a). Five new Platocoelotes species (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in southern China. ZooKeys 512: 1-18. doi:10.3897/zookeys.512.9989

Chen, L., Li, S. Q. & Zhao, Z. (2015b). A new genus of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) from southern China. ZooKeys 541: 41-56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.541.6678

Corronca, J. A. & Rodríguez Artigas, S. M. (2015). Presence of Gea heptagon (Hentz) and new records of Argiope from Argentina with the description of a new species Argiope kaingang (Araneae: Araneidae). Pakistan Journal of Zoology 47(1): 147-152.

Coşar, İ. (2015). Four new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 368-371. doi:10.3906/zoo-1405-53

Danflous, S. & Déjean, S. (2015). Kratochviliella bicapitata Miller, 1938 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) découverte en France. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 8-11.

Danflous, S. (2015). Zelotes puritanus Chamberlin, 1922 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) découverte en France. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 16-19.

Danişman, T. & Karanfil, K. C. (2015). A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey. Entomological News 125(2): 101-105. doi:10.3157/021.125.0203

Davidson, M. B. (2015). Identification of species in the genus Dictyna (Dictynidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 133: 21-24.

Decae, A., Pantini, P. & Isaia, M. (2015). A new species-complex within the trapdoor spider genus Nemesia Audouin 1826 distributed in northern and central Italy, with descriptions of three new species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Zootaxa 4059(3): 525-540. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4059.3.5

Déjean, S. (2015a). Theridion melanostictum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 (Araneae, Theridiidae) nouveau pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 4-5.

Déjean, S. (2015b). Lathys nielseni (Schenkel, 1932) (Araneae, Dictynidae), une espèce confirmée pour la faune de France découverte sur la commune de Toulouse. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 20-22.

Demir, H. (2015). Redescription of Xysticus kaznakovi Utochkin, 1968 (Araneae: Thomisidae), with a description of unknown female. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 67(4): 461-464.

Demircan, N. & Topçu, A. (2015). A contribution to the spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 14(4): 176-183.

Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). A new litter dwelling Oxyopes Latreille (Araneae: Oxyopidae) species from Jaldapara Wild Life Sanctuary, India. Species 12(32): 24-29.

Dolejš, P. & Růžička, V. (2015). Hypselistes paludicola is a junior synonym of Trichopternoides thorelli (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 19-21. doi:10.5431/aramit5003

Dupérré, N. (2015a). Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador. Zootaxa 3956(4): 451-475. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3956.4.1

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2015a). Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador. Zootaxa 3972(3): 343-368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.3.3

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2015b). Discovery of the first telemid spider (Araneae, Telemidae) from South America, and the first member of the family bearing a stridulatory organ. Zootaxa 4020(1): 191-196. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.9

Dupérré, N. (2015b). Description of a new genus and thirteen new species of Ctenidae (Araneae, Ctenidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador. Zootaxa 4028(4): 451-484. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4028.4.1

Dupérré, N. (2015c). Description of the first visually cryptic species of Paratropis (Araneae: Paratropididae) from Ecuador. Journal of Arachnology 43(3): 327-330. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-327-330

Dzulhelmi, M. N., Suriyanti, S., Zulqarnain, M. & Norma, C. Y. (2015). Two new Opadometa species (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Sarawak, Malaysia. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 65(1): 101-107.

Dzulhelmi, M. N., Suriyanti, S. N. P. & Norma, C. Y. (2015). A new Cyphalonotus species (Araneae, Araneidae) from Malaysia. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 530-534. doi:10.3906/zoo-1405-20

Edwards, G. B. (2015). Freyinae, a major new subfamily of Neotropical jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4036(1): 1-87. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4036.1.1

El-Hennawy, H. K., Asiry, K. A., Desouky, M. & Al-Khuraiji, I. A. (2015). The first record of Mermessus fradeorum (Berland, 1932) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Saudi Arabia. Serket 14(3): 116-121.

El-Hennawy, H. K., Mohafez, M. A. & El-Gendy, A. A. (2015). The first record of Plexippus clemens (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Salticidae) in Egypt. Serket 14(3): 128-133.

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2015). The first record of Trachelas minor (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Trachelidae) in Egypt. Serket 14(4): 196-201.

Estrada-Alvarez, J. C. (2015). Nueva especie de Pozonia Schenkel (Araneae: Araneidae) de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 51-54.

Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2015). Taxonomic notes on spiders of the genus Asiohahnia (Aranei, Hahniidae). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 94(4): 429-434. [English version in Entomological Review 95(3): 415-420] doi:10.7868/S0044513415040054

Esyunin, S. L. & Sozontov, A. N. (2015). Spiders of the genus Pisaura Simon, 1885 (Aranei, Pisauridae) in Middle Volga and Cisurals territories, with notes on the distribution of P. novicia (L. Koch, 1878). Eurasian Entomological Journal 14(4): 325-333.

Evtushenko, K. V., Polchaninova, N. Y. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015). Distribution of the spider Zelotes azsheganovae (Aranei, Gnaphosidae) on the East European Plain. Vestnik Zoologii 49(4): 305-310. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2015-0032

Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Guadanucci, J. P. L. & DaSilva, M. B. (2015). Tmesiphantes mirim sp. nov. (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from the Atlantic Forest of Bahia, Brazil, biogeographical notes and identification keys for species of the genus. Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(2): 151-156. [errata: Zoologia (Curitiba) 32 (6): 541] doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000200006

Fedoriak, M. M. (2015). Scientific heritage of Aleksandru Roshka as а basis for retrospective analysis of araneofauna of Bukovyna. Edited by Prof., Dr. S. S. Rudenko. Druk Art, Chernivtsi, 1-175.

Ferretti, N., Copperi, S., Schwerdt, L. & Pompozzi, G. (2015a). First record of Vitalius roseus (Mello-Leitão, 1923) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) in Argentina: distribution map, natural history, and sexual behaviour. Arachnology 16(7): 241-243. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.7.241

Ferretti, N. (2015a). Cladistic reanalysis and historical biogeography of the genus Lycinus Thorell, 1894 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) with description of two new species from western Argentina. Zoological Studies 54: 11 (p. 1-15). doi:10.1186/s40555-014-0083-6

Ferretti, N., Copperi, S., Schwerdt, L. & Pompozzi, G. (2015b). First record of Vitalius longisternalis Bertani, 2001 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) in Argentina and notes on its natural history in Misiones province. Check List 11(5): 1-5. doi:10.15560/11.5.1748

Ferretti, N. (2015c). On three new Euathlus tarantulas from Argentina and cladistic analysis of the genus. Journal of Arachnology 43(3): 313-326. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-43.3.313

Ferretti, N. (2015b). A new species of Phrixotrichus (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from southwestern Argentina and new distributional data for P. vulpinus. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 105(2): 252-256. doi:10.1590/1678-476620151052252256

Fomichev, A. A. (2015a). New data on the crab spider genus Xysticus C.L. Koch, 1835 from the Altai, South Siberia (Aranei: Thomisidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 91-97.

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2015a). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 4. A review of Fedotovia Charitonov, 1946. Zootaxa 3948: 93-108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3948.1.6

Fomichev, A. A. & Logunov, D. V. (2015). A new species of Alopecosa Simon, 1885 (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the Altai Mountains (South Siberia, Russia). Zootaxa 4013(4): 588-593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.8

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2015b). First description of the male of Drassodes kaszabi (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Vestnik Zoologii 49(5): 467-470. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2015-0055

Fomichev, A. A. (2015b). On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Altai Republic (Russia). Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(2): 63-70.

Framenau, V. W. (2015). Review of the Australian wolf spider genus Venator (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4013(4): 541-555. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4013.4.5

Framenau, V. W. & Lehtinen, P. T. (2015). Nukuhiva Berland, 1935 is a troglobitic wolf spider (Araneae: Lycosidae), not a nursery-web spider (Pisauridae). Zootaxa 4028(1): 129-135. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4028.1.6

Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S. J. (2015). Revised generic placement of Brachypelma embrithes (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1936) and Brachypelma angustum Valerio, 1980, with definition of the taxonomic features for identification of female Sericopelma Ausserer, 1875 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 526: 75-104. doi:10.3897/zookeys.526.6315

Gallon, R. C. & Wendt, I. (2015). On the taxonomic placement of four African Phoneyusa species (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Eumenophorinae). Arachnology 16(8): 298-304.

Galvis, W. (2015a). First record of the jumping spider Eustiromastix falcatus (Araneae: Salticidae) in Brazil. Peckhamia 120.1: 1-3.

Galvis, W. (2015b). Especies nuevas y reportes de arañas saltarinas de Colombia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 26: 35-41.

Galvis, W. (2015c). Jumping spiders of the genus Scopocira Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida) from Colombia, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4000(2): 281-286. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4000.2.6

Galvis, W. (2015d). A new species of Amycus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Salticidae: Amycoida: Amycinae) from Colombia, with a new record of A. spectabilis C. L. Koch, 1846. Arachnology 16(9): 351-352.

Galvis, W. & Flórez D., E. (2015). New records of the flattie spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Colombia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 139-144.

Garcilazo-Cruz, U. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. (2015). Description of a novel mating plug mechanism in spiders and the description of the new species Maeota setastrobilaris (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 509: 1-12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.509.9711

Giroti, A. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). Revalidation of the spider genus Citharoceps Chamberlin, 1924 (Araneae, Segestriidae). ZooKeys 495: 1-19. doi:10.3897/zookeys.495.8950

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

Gregorič, M., Blackledge, T. A., Agnarsson, I. & Kuntner, M. (2015b). A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae: Caerostris). Journal of Arachnology 43(3): 293-312. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-43.3.293

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

Grismado, C. J. & Rubio, G. D. (2015). Three new species and the first known males of the Andean spider genus Orinomana Strand (Araneae, Uloboridae). Zootaxa 4052(2): 201-214. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.4

Guo, C. H., Ren, Z. X. & Zhang, F. (2015). Two newly recorded species of the genus Xysticus from Bashang Plateau, Hebei of China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Journal of Tianjin Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 35(3): 44-49.

Guo, C. H., Zhao, M. Q. & Zhang, F. (2015). One newly recorded Xysticus species from Taihang Mountains, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 24(2): 76-79. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2015.02.003

Haddad, C. R. (2015). A revision of the southern African two-eyed spider genus Diploglena (Araneae: Caponiidae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 343-363.

Haddad, C. R. & Mbo, Z. (2015). Five new species of the Afrotropical dark sac spider genus Messapus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 4057(3): 385-398. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.3.5

Han, G. X., Dong, X. Y. & Zhang, F. (2015). Redescription of Lepthyphantes cultellifer (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with the first description of the female. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(1): 45-48.

Hedin, M. (2015). High-stakes species delimitation in eyeless cave spiders (Cicurina, Dictynidae, Araneae) from central Texas. Molecular Ecology 24: 346-361. doi:10.1111/mec.13036

Helsdingen, P. J. van (2015). Pseudeuophrys perdifumo, a new salticid spider from Castellabate, Italy (Araneae, Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief Spinnenwerkgroep Nederland 35: 11-13.

Helsdingen, P. J. van & IJland, S. (2015). A quick scan of the spider fauna in the surroundings of Përmet, Albania (Arachnida, Araneae) - Preliminary report. Nieuwsbrief Spinnenwerkgroep Nederland 35: 15-33.

Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. (2015). On the new Afrotropical genus Suffrica with discovery of an abdominal gland and a dual femoral organ (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 3972: 1-25. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.1

Huang, Y., Wang, C. & Peng, X. J. (2015). Five new species of Phintella Strand, 1906 (Araneae, Salticidae) from the Wuling Mountains, China. ZooKeys 514: 25-42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.514.9159

Huber, B. A. (2015). Small scale endemism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest: 14 new species of Mesabolivar (Araneae, Pholcidae), each known from a single locality. Zootaxa 3942(1): 1-60. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3942.1.1

Huber, B. A., Neumann, J., Rehfeldt, S., Grabolle, A. & Reiser, N. (2015). Back in Europe: Quamtana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Germany. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 51-56. doi:10.5431/aramit5007

Huber, B. A. & Nuñeza, O. M. (2015). Evolution of genital asymmetry, exaggerated eye stalks, and extreme palpal elongation in Panjange spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 169: 1-46. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.169

Huber, B. A., Nuñeza, O. M. & Leh Moi Ung, C. (2015). Revision, phylogeny, and microhabitat shifts in the Southeast Asian spider genus Aetana (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 162: 1-78. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.162

Indicatti, R. P., Folly-Ramos, E., Vargas, A. B., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). Two new tiny Nemesiidae species from Reserva Biológica do Tinguá, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(2): 123-138. [errata: Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(6): 541] doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000200003

Isaia, M. & Chiarle, A. (2015). Taxonomic notes on Cybaeus vignai Brignoli, 1977 (Araneae, Cybaeidae) and Dysdera cribrata Simon, 1882 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from the Italian Maritime Alps. Zoosystema 37(1): 45-56. doi:10.5252/z2015n1a3

Jäger, P. & Minn, M. Z. (2015). New species in the family Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877 from high altitude habitats in Myanmar, with the first case of penetration of the female's cuticle by a male in the RTA-clade (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 3994(2): 235-252. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.4

Jäger, P., Li, S. Q. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015). Morphological and molecular taxonomic analysis of Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Sichuan Province, China. Zootaxa 3999(3): 363-392. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.3.3

Jäger, P. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015). May gen. n. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features. African Invertebrates 56(2): 365-392.

Jäger, P. (2015). Conductor-less and vertically niched: new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Myanmar. Arachnology 16(9): 333-350.

Jiang, X. K. & Chen, H. M. (2015). One new spider species of genus Draconarius (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 34(3): 418-420. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-7083.2015.03.018

Jiménez, M.-L. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2015). A new species of Modisimus Simon (Araneae: Pholcidae) in Baja California Sur, Mexico. Zootaxa 4028(4): 595-599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4028.4.11

Jiménez, M. L., Nieto-Castañeda, I. G., Correa-Ramírez, M. M. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2015). Las arañas de los oasis de la región meridional de la península de Baja California, México. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 86: 319-331. doi:10.1016/j.rmb.2015.04.028

Jin, C., Fu, J. Y. & Zhang, F. (2015). A review of the genus Abdosetae (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from China. Zootaxa 4007(1): 91-103. [Erratum: Zootaxa 4018(4): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.6

Jin, C., Yin, X. C. & Zhang, F. (2015). A new species of the genus Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 (Araneae: Trachelidae) from China, with the first description of the male of U. fabaria Zhao & Peng, 2014 and a redescription of U. gui (Zhu, Song & Kim, 1998). Zootaxa 4057(4): 569-581. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4057.4.6

Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2015a). Revalidation of Acanthinozodium Denis, 1966 with description of three new species and discovery of a remarkable male palpal character (Araneae, Zodariidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 114: 1-23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.114

Jocqué, R. & Harten, A. van (2015). Three new species of Zodariidae (Araneae) from mainland Yemen and the Island Socotra. African Invertebrates 56(2): 393-408.

Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2015b). The new spider genus Palindroma, featuring a novel synapomorphy for the Zodariidae (Araneae). European Journal of Taxonomy 152: 1-33. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.152

Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2015c). Ballomma, a new Afrotropical genus in the Cryptothelinae (Araneae, Zodariidae): eyes on the run. European Journal of Taxonomy 163: 1-24. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.163

Kaderka, R. (2015). Bistriopelma, a new genus with two new species from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Revista Peruana de Biología 22(3): 275-288. doi:10.15381/rpb.v22i3.11432

Keswani, S. (2015a). The genus Dictis L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Scytodidae) with description of one new species from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 1-3.

Keswani, S. (2015b). New record of spider Poltys illepidus (Araneae: Aranedae) [sic] from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 8-11.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2015a). A new species of the genus Sinopoda Jager, 1999 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 1-9.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H., Kim, T. W. & Kim, D. H. (2015a). One new record species of the genus Neospintharus Exline, 1950 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 25-28.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, J. Y. (2015a). A new record species of the genus Hygrolycosa Dahl, 1908 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 29-34.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, T. W. (2015b). A new species of the genus Leptoneta Simon, 1872 (Araneae: Leptonetidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 31-36.

Kim, J. P., Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H. & Hong, S. H. (2015b). A new species of the genus Sinopoda Jäger, 1999 (Araneae, Sparassidae) in Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 37-44.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Noh, G. R. (2015). A new species of the genus Atypus Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Atypidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 45-51.

Kim, J. P., Lee, J. H. & Lee, J. G. (2015). Two new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae), with redescription of P. zichyi Kulczyński, 1901 from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 53-71.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2015c). A new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 73-80.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2015d). First record of a species in a newly recorded genus Stroemiellus Wunderlich, 2004 (Araneae: Araneidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 81-85.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, T. W. (2015c). One new record species of the genus Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 87-90.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, D. H. (2015d). One new record species of the genus Trochosa C. L. Koch, 1847 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 91-94.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Oh, J. H. (2015a). One new record species of the genus Dolomedes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Pisauridae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 95-98.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Oh, J. H. (2015b). One new record species of the genus Pardosa C. L. Koch, 1847 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 99-103.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, T. W. (2015e). One new record species of the genus Arcuphantes Chamberlin & Ivie, 1943 (Araneae: Lyniphiidae [sic]) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 105-108.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H., Kim, T. W. & Kim, D. H. (2015c). Description of the male of Paratheuma shirahamaensis (Oi, 1960) (Araneae: Desidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(2): 109-112.

Kim, J. P. & Seong, M. K. (2015). A new species of the genus Tibellus Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Philodromidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 11-17.

Kovács, G., Prazsák, I., Eichardt, J., Vári, G. & Gyurkovics, H. (2015). A new ladybird spider from Hungary (Araneae, Eresidae). ZooKeys 494: 13-30. doi:10.3897/zookeys.494.8676

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Kastrygina, Z. A. (2015). A new species of Talavera Peckham et Peckham, 1909 (Aranei: Salticidae) from the Crimea. Arthropoda Selecta 24(2): 201-205.

Krejčí, T., Řezáč, M. & Michalik, P. (2015). Female genital morphology and sperm storage in the velvet spider Eresus kollari (Araneae: Eresidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 182-187.

Kronestedt, T. (2015). Species of Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae): transfer of two species from Pardosa and description of three new species from Africa. European Journal of Taxonomy 132: 1-19. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.132

Kulkarni, S. S. & Lewis, T. R. (2015). Description of male Tylorida sataraensis Kulkarni, 2014 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with notes on habits and conservation status. Biodiversity Data Journal 3(e4451): 1-11. doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4451

Kulkarni, S. & Yadav, S. (2015). Bridging the distributional gap of Tylorida striata (Thorell, 1877) and new synonymy (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3(e4878): 1-12. doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4878

Kulkarni, S. & Joseph, S. (2015). First record of genus Siler Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7701-7703.

Kunz, K., Witthuhn, M. & Uhl, G. (2015). Paired and complex copulatory organs: do they really impede flexible use?. Journal of Zoology, London 297: 278-285. doi:10.1111/jzo.12277

Labarque, F. M., Soto, E. M., Ramírez, M. J. & Arnedo, M. A. (2015). Chasing ghosts: the phylogeny of Amaurobioidinae ghost spiders (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Zoologica Scripta 44(5): 550-561. doi:10.1111/zsc.12119

Laborda, Á. & Simó, M. (2015a). Addition of a spider family for Uruguay: First record of Iviraiva pachyura (Mello-Leitão, 1935) (Araneae: Hersiliidae), with notes on its natural history and distribution. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(10): 7697-7700.

Laborda, Á. & Simó, M. (2015b). Description of the female of Eutichurus ibiuna Bonaldo, 1994 (Araneae: Eutichuridae) with notes on natural history and sexual behavior. Zootaxa 4021(4): 591-596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4021.4.9

Leavitt, D. H., Starrett, J., Westphal, M. F. & Hedin, M. (2015). Multilocus sequence data reveal dozens of putative cryptic species in a radiation of endemic Californian mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 56-67. [+ suppl.] doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.016

Lee, S. Y., Lee, J. H., Yoo, J. S. & Kim, S. T. (2015a). A new species of the genus Atypus Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Atypidae) from Korea. Zootaxa 3915(1): 139-142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3915.1.8

Lee, S. Y., Yoo, J. S. & Kim, S. T. (2015a). Ultra rare Paraplectana sakaguchii Uyemura, 1938 (Araneae: Araneidae) new to Korean spider fauna. Journal of Species Research 4(1): 57-59. doi:10.12651/JSR.2015.4.1.057

Lee, S. Y., Lee, J. H., Jung, J. K. & Kim, S. T. (2015b). Description of Haplodrassus mayumiae Kamura, 2007 and Mangora crescopicta Yin et al., 1990 (Arachnida: Araneae) new to Korean spider fauna. Korean Journal of Applied Entomology 54(1): 51-54. doi:10.5656/KSAE.2014.01.1.074

Lee, S. Y., Yoo, J. S. & Kim, S. T. (2015b). Two newly recorded species of the spider families Theridiidae and Clubionidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 318-321. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.10.001

Leister, M. & Miller, K. B. (2015). Description of a new tracheline spider, Trachelas mombachensis sp. n., in the T. bispinosus species group from the Mombacho Volcano in Nicaragua (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 3936(1): 141-146. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3936.1.9

Li, Z. Y., Hu, L. L. & Zhang, F. (2015). A new Zoropsis species from China, with notes on Zoropsis pekingensis Schenkel, 1953 (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Zootaxa 3981(3): 444-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3981.3.10

Li, S. Q. & Zonstein, S. (2015). Eight new species of the spider genera Raveniola and Sinopesa from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Nemesiidae). ZooKeys 519: 1-32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.519.8784

Lise, A. A., Kesster, C. C. & Silva, E. L. C. da (2015). Revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Verrucosa McCook, 1888 (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 3921(1): 1-105. [Erratum: Zootaxa 3956(4): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3921.1.1

Liu, L., Guo, C. H. & Zhang, F. (2015). Two newly recorded species of the genus Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from China. Journal of Hebei University, Natural Science Edition 35(1): 58-61. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2015.01.011

Liu, N., Wang, L. & Zhang, Z. S. (2015). A newly recorded spider species of genus Pirata (Araneae: Lycosidae) from China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 34(3): 421-423. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-7083.2015.03.019

Liu, Y. & Tong, Y. F. (2015). A new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 from Xianrendong National Forest Park, Liaoning Province, China (Araneae: Pholcidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 24(1): 31-34. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2015.01.008

Liu, N., Huang, G. Q. & Zhang, Z. S. (2015). A new species of the genus Hahnia (Araneae: Hahniidae) from South China. Zootaxa 3994(2): 295-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3994.2.10

Logunov, D. V. (2015a). Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 33-85.

Logunov, D. V. (2015b). Taxonomic notes on the genus Lyssomanes Hentz 1845 (Araneae: Salticidae) from French Guiana. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(1): 39-44.

Lopardo, L. & Hormiga, G. (2015). Out of the twilight zone: phylogeny and evolutionary morphology of the orb-weaving spider family Mysmenidae, with a focus on spinneret spigot morphology in symphytognathoids (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 173: 527-786. doi:10.1111/zoj.12199

Lotz, L. N. (2015a). New species of the spider genus Cheiracanthium from continental Africa (Araneae: Eutichuridae). Zootaxa 3973(2): 321-336. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3973.2.7

Lotz, L. N. (2015b). New species of the Afrotropical spider genus Cheiramiona Lotz & Dippenaar-Schoeman (Araneae: Eutichuridae). Zootaxa 3981(1): 71-94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3981.1.3

Lotz, L. N. (2015c). A new species of Afrarchaea (Araneae: Archaeidae) from South Africa. African Invertebrates 56(2): 409-414.

Lu, T., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2015). Diversity of spiders in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, III: A new species of Brommella (Dictynidae). Zootaxa 4020(1): 183-190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.8

Luo, Y. & Chen, J. (2015). Two new Coelotes species from China (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Zoological Systematics 40(3): 258-267. doi:10.11865/zs.20150303

Lv, S. Y., Chen, X. & Tong, Y. F. (2015). A taxonomic study on ground-dwelling spiders from Beiling Park, Shenyang, Liaoning Province. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 24(1): 41-48. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2015.01.010

Lyle, R. (2015). Two new species of the Afrotropical sac spider genus Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010 (Araneae: Trachelidae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 415-423.

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2015). Taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Tobias Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Thomisidae, Stephanopinae). Zootaxa 4034(3): 565-576. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4034.3.8

Malamel, J. J., Sankaran, P. M., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015a). First record of the wolf spider genus Lysania Thorell, 1890 from India with the description of a new species (Araneae: Lycosidae: Zoicinae). Zootaxa 3904(2): 293-297. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3904.2.8

Malamel, J. J., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015). First record of the jumping spider genus Bavia Simon, 1877 from India, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4007(4): 596-599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.4.11

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

Malek Hosseini, M.-J., Grismado, C. J., Sadeghi, S. & Bakhshi, Y. (2015). Description of the first cave dwelling species of the spider genus Trilacuna Tong & Li from Iran (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 3972(4): 549-561. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.4.6

Malek Hosseini, M.-J., Zamani, A. & Sadeghi, S. (2015). A survey of cave-dwelling spider fauna of Kohgiluyeh & Boyer-Ahmad and Fars Provinces, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 90-94.

Malik, S., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2015). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of Delhi with first report of cobweb spider Argyrodes bonadea (Karsch, 1881) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 31-36.

Martin, D. (2015). Allometrie sowie Bau und Funktion der Kopulationsorgane bei der Wolfspinne Arctosa leopardus (Araneae, Lycosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 107-115. doi:10.5431/aramit5014

Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2015). A survey of Palaearctic Dictynidae (Araneae). 1. Taxonomic notes on Dictynomorpha Spassky, 1939, Brigittea Lehtinen, 1967 and Lathys Simon, 1884. Zootaxa 3925(1): 129-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3925.1.9

Marusik, Y. M., Mikhailov, K. G. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). Taxonomic notes on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 117-124.

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2015a). Redescription of Oecobius tadzhikus Andreeva et Tyshchenko, 1969 (Aranei: Oecobiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(2): 197-200.

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M., Simonov, P. S. & Koponen, S. (2015). New data about orb-weaving spiders (Aranei: Araneidae and Tetragnathidae) from the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 24(2): 207-214.

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). Redescription of "Amaurobius" rufipes Taczanowski, 1874 (Araneae: Corinnidae) with notes of Amaurobius species described from French Guyana. Zootaxa 3974(1): 148-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3974.1.14

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2015b). A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 11. Two new genera from the Acantholycosa complex. Zootaxa 3985(2): 252-264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.4

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2015c). A redescription of the ant mimicking spider Myrmecium gounellei (Araneae: Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), with notes on the genus. Zootaxa 3985(2): 296-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3985.2.9

Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015a). The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516: 123-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.10146

Marusik, Y. M., Azarkina, G. N. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). Redescription and a new synonym of the spider Pachygnatha amurensis Strand, 1907 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Tetragnathinae). Zootaxa 4007(1): 126-130. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.10

Marusik, Y. M., Zonstein, S. L. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). Redescription of Phrurolithus flavipes (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), with the first description of the male. Zootaxa 4020(1): 197-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4020.1.10

Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015b). Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 429-435.

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2015d). Redescription of "Nesticus" citrinus (Taczanowski, 1874) (Araneae, Araneoidea) from French Guyana. ZooKeys 537: 97-101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.537.6818

Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2015c). First description of the male of Tegenaria zamanii Marusik & Omelko, 2014 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from northern Iran. Zootaxa 4052(2): 226-228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4052.2.6

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Meng, X. W., Zhang, Z. S. & Shi, A. M. (2015). Description of two unknown females of Epeus Peckham & Peckham from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3955(1): 147-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3955.1.11

Merches, E. & Schäfer, M. (2015). Erster gesicherter Nachweis von Heliophanus patagiatus (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae, Salticidae) für Südostbayern. Mitteilungen der Zoologischen Gesellschaft Braunau 11(3): 377-383.

Milasowszky, N., Bauchhenss, E., Freudenschuss, M., Hepner, M., Komposch, C. & Zulka, K. P. (2015). Erstnachweise von Spinnen in Österreich (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Philodromidae, Theridiidae, Titanoecidae, Salticidae). Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich - BCBEA 1/2: 296-303.

Mirshamsi, O., Saneei, S., Aliabadian, M. & Ghassemzadeh, F. (2015). New data on the wolf spiders of Iran (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 99-106.

Moradmand, M. (2015). Revision of the grass huntsman spider genus Pseudomicrommata Järvi, 1914 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in the Afrotropical Region. African Invertebrates 56(2): 425-443.

Moradmand, M., Mirshamsi, O. & Hula, V. (2015). New records of the huntsman spider genus Olios (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East 61(1): 76-80. doi:10.1080/09397140.2014.985505

Mukhtar, M. K. (2015). Two new species of the genus Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch (Araneae: Eutichuridae) from Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 47(2): 467-472.

Nae, A. (2015). Synaphris lehtineni, Marusik, Gnelista & Kovliuk, 2005 (Synaphridea, Araneae) - new record for the Romanian fauna. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 54: 27-31.

Najim, S. A., Al-Hadlak, K. S. & Seyyar, O. (2015). A new species of the genus Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1880 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Iraq. Serket 14(4): 184-188.

Nanayakkara, R. P., Ganehiarachchi, G. A. S. M., Vishvanath, N. & Kusuminda, T. G. T. (2015). Discovery of the critically endangered tarantula species of the genus Poecilotheria (Araneae: Theraphosidae), Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica, from Sri Lanka. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 1-6. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.01.002

Nogueira, A. A. & Dias, S. R. (2015). New species of Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) from Rondônia, Brazil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 105(4): 416-419. doi:10.1590/1678-476620151054416419

Oger, P. (2015). Deux araignées intéressantes à Gelbressée (Province de Namur - Belgique). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(2): 61-65.

Oger, P. & Melotti, G. (2015). Découverte en France de Zodarion maculatum (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 2-3.

Oger, P., Tirmarche, D., Santune, V. & Jacquet, C. (2015). Mendoza canestrinii (Ninni, 1868) toujours plus nordique et aux frontières de la Belgique (Araneae, Salticidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 32-33.

Oliveira, L. F. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015a). A taxonomic revision of the Neotropical spider genus Xiruana Brescovit 1997 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae). Zootaxa 3980(2): 201-229. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.2.3

Oliveira, L. F. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015b). Two new species of the Neotropical spider genus Umuara Brescovit (Araneae, Anyphaenidae, Anyphaeninae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 3980(3): 435-441. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.3.7

Ortiz, D. & Francke, O. F. (2015). Two new species of Bonnetina tarantulas (Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) from Mexico: contributions to morphological nomenclature and molecular characterization of types. Journal of Natural History 49(11-12): 685-707. doi:10.1080/00222933.2014.924770

Ott, R., Silva, G. O., Marta, K. S. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2015a). On the spider genus Neonella (Araneae: Salticidae): new records and taxonomic notes for species from southern South America. Zootaxa 3946(4): 583-586. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.4.7

Ott, R., von Beeren, C., Hashim, R., Witte, V. & Harvey, M. S. (2015b). Sicariomorpha, a new myrmecophilous goblin spider genus (Araneae, Oonopidae) associated with Asian army ants. American Museum Novitates 3843: 1-14.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2015a). Two new peacock spiders of the calcitrans group from southern Queensland (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae: Maratus). Peckhamia 121.1: 1-34.

Otto, S. & Tanasevitch, A. V. (2015). A new species of Incestophantes Tanasevitch, 1992 from the high mountains of the Caucasus Major (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 107-112.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2015b). Maratus elephans, a new member of the volans group from New South Wales (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Peckhamia 123.1: 1-19.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2015c). Maratus personatus, a masked peacock spider from Cape Riche, Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Peckhamia 127.1: 1-30.

Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Marusik, Y. M. & Kunt, K. B. (2015a). A new species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 3: e4419, p. 1-11. doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4419

Özkütük, R. S., Kunt, K. B., Karakaş, G. & Danişman, T. (2015b). Redescription of Harpactea korgei Brignoli, 1979 (Araneae: Dysderidae) with the first description of the female. Arthropods 4(2): 32-37.

Patil, V., Naik, M. M. & Uniyal, V. P. (2015). First report of genus Echinax Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Araneae: Corinnidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 4-7.

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. (2015). Proszynellus - a new jumping spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 3926(2): 257-267. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3926.2.6

Patoleta, B. M. & Trębicki, Ł. (2015). Redescription of some poorly known species of Cytaea Keyserling, 1882 (Araneae: Salticidae), with new synonymies. Zootaxa 3949(4): 555-566. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3949.4.5

Patrick, L. B. (2015). First record of Erigone autumnalis from New Caledonia, with a redescription of E. neocaledonica (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 16(7): 259-262. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.7.259

Pedroso, D. R., Baptista, R. L. C. & Bertani, R. (2015). A new species of Masteria (Araneae: Dipluridae: Masteriinae) from southeastern Brazil. Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(1): 59-65. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000100009

Perafán, C., Cifuentes, Y. & Estrada-Gomez, S. (2015). Aguapanela, a new tarantula genus from the Colombian Andes (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4033(4): 529-542. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4033.4.4

Pham, D. S. (2015). One new species of the genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 480: 41-47. doi:10.3897/zookeys.480.9046

Planas, E. & Ribera, C. (2015). Description of six new species of Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) endemic to the Canary Islands and the utility of DNA barcoding for their fast and accurate identification. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 174: 47-73. doi:10.1111/zoj.12226

Platnick, N. I. & Berniker, L. (2015). The goblin spider genus Khamisia and its relatives (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum Novitates 3837: 1-66.

Poeta, M. R. M. & Lise, A. A. (2015). On the males of the orb-weaving spiders Alpaida nigrofrenata (Simon, 1895), A. machala Levi, 1988, and A. cisneros Levi, 1988 (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new synonymy. Zootaxa 4000(3): 397-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4000.3.7

Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. (2015). Afroneutria, a new spider genus of Afrotropical Ctenidae (Arachnida, Araneae). European Journal of Taxonomy 121: 1-27. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.121

Polotow, D., Carmichael, A. & Griswold, C. E. (2015). Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae). Invertebrate Systematics 29: 124-163. doi:10.1071/IS14041

Pompozzi, G. (2015). A new species of Losdolobus Platnick & Brescovit 1994 (Araneae: Orsolobidae) from Argentina with notes on its ecology and distribution. Zootaxa 3990(3): 419-428. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3990.3.6

Pravalikha, G. B. & Srinivasulu, C. (2015). A new species of genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Telangana, India and a detailed description of Thomisus projectus Tikader, 1960. Journal of Threatened Taxa 7(3): 7000-7006. [attached: comment by Kulkarni (2015) and reply from the authors] doi:10.11609/JoTT.o4076.7000-6

Prpic, N.-M. (2015). Nomina dubia in the genus Theridion resulting from errors in instalment six of Carl Wilhelm Hahn's "Monographie der Spinnen" (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 85-90. doi:10.5431/aramit5012

Quasin, S., Siliwal, M. & Uniyal, V. P. (2015). New species of Himalmartensus Wang & Zhu, 2008 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) with the first description of a male from the Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 247-250. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.08.005

Rajoria, A. (2015a). Species increment of newly recorded genera Stemmops (Aranaea: Therididae) [sic] from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 22-25.

Rajoria, A. (2015b). Newly recorded genera Yaginumena (Aranae: Theridiidae) [sic] from India, with description of Yaginumena maculosa (Yoshida & Ono, 2000). Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(1): 56-58.

Rajoria, A. (2015c). Redescription of Poltys illepidus C.L.Koch, 1843* with first record of male from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 6-9.

Rajoria, A. (2015d). Two new genera of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida: Araneae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 43-47.

Rajoria, A. (2015e). A new species of the genus Migrammopes [sic] (Arachnida: Araneae: Uloboridae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 48-51.

Raven, R. J. (2015). A revision of ant-mimicking spiders of the family Corinnidae (Araneae) in the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 3958(1): 1-258. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3958.1.1

Reiser, N. & Neumann, J. (2015). Neue Nachweise von Mermessus denticulatus (Banks, 1892) (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in Deutschland. Entomologische Nachrichten und Berichte 59: 125-128.

Rheims, C. A. (2015). Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae). Zootaxa 4012(3): 401-446. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.1

Ribera, C. & De Mas, E. (2015). Description of three new troglobiontic species of Cybaeodes (Araneae, Liocranidae) endemic to the Iberian Peninsula. Zootaxa 3957(3): 313-323. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3957.3.4

Richman, D. B. (2015). On the generic name Peckhamia Simon 1900 (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 72(1): 102-105.

Rivera-Quiroz, F. A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. (2015). Three new species of the genus Trachelas (Araneae: Trachelidae) from an oak forest inside the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot in Mexico. Zootaxa 3999(1): 95-110. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3999.1.6

Rodrigues, E. N. L. & Poeta, M. R. M. (2015). Twelve new Neotropical species of the spider genus Cryptachaea (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 26-33. doi:10.1636/K14-47.1

Rodrigues, E. N. L. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). On the spider genus Thymoites in the Neotropical Region (Araneae, Theridiidae): nine new species, complementary descriptions and new records. Zootaxa 3972(2): 181-207. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.2.3

Roff, J. & Haddad, C. R. (2015). Pasilobus dippenaarae sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae), a new species of cyrtarachnine spider from South Africa, with a key to the Afrotropical species. African Invertebrates 56(2): 445-454.

Rojas, F. R. (2015). Distribución de Palliduphantes pallidus (Araneae: Linyphiidae) en Europa y primera cita en Andalucía (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 27: 159-161.

Roy, T. K., Sen, S., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). A new Linyphia Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from West Bengal, India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 10(1): 61-64.

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). A new Gibbaranea Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from West Bengal, India with a note on biogeography of the genus. Species 16(52): 1-5.

Rozwalka, R. & Stachowicz, J. (2015). The first record of Clubiona saxatilis C.L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica, Warsaw 58(1): 59-63. doi:10.3161/00159301FF2015.58.1.059

Rubio, G. D. & Ramírez, M. J. (2015). Taxonomic revision of the American spider genus Arachosia (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Zootaxa 3932(1): 1-105. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3932.1.1

Rubio, G. D., Zapata, L. V. & Grismado, C. J. (2015). A new species of Castianeira Keyserling (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Buenos Aires, Argentina. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 50(2): 137-143. doi:10.1080/01650521.2015.1058112

Rubio, G. D., Argañaraz, C. I. & Gleiser, R. M. (2015). A new species of jumping spider Neonella Gertsch, with notes on the genus and male identification key (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 532: 1-14. doi:10.3897/zookeys.532.6078

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). The new Andean jumping spider genus Urupuyu and its placement within a revised classification of the Amycoida (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4040(3): 251-279. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4040.3.1

Russell-Smith, A. & Jocqué, R. (2015). New Zodariidae (Araneae) from Mkomazi Game Reserve, Tanzania. African Invertebrates 56(2): 455-476.

Russell-Smith, A. (2015). Identification of the British Scotina species. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 134: 14-16.

Salvatierra, L., Brescovit, A. D. & Tourinho, A. L. (2015). Description of two new species of Tangaroa Lehtinen 1967 (Arachnida: Araneae: Uloboridae). Journal of Arachnology 43(3): 331-341. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-43.3.331

Sanap, R. V. & Mirza, Z. A. (2015). A new large trapdoor spider species of the genus Heligmomerus Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae) from Western Ghats, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 242-246. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.07.004

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2015). On the taxonomic placement of the Cuban spider Nops ariguanabo Alayón and the description of a new Mexican Tarsonops (Araneae, Caponiidae). Zootaxa 3914(2): 131-143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3914.2.3

Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Brescovit, A. D. & Alayón, G. (2015). Four new caponiids species (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the West Indies and redescription of Nops blandus (Bryant). Zootaxa 3972(1): 43-64. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3972.1.3

Sankaran, P. M., Jobi, M. J. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015). Redescription of the orb-weaving spider Gasteracantha geminata (Fabricius, 1798) (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 3915(1): 147-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3915.1.10

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015a). An updated review of the genus Martensopoda Jäger, 2006 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 3937(3): 577-590. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.9

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015b). Castianeira furva sp. nov. (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae), a new polymorphic ground sac spider from the southern Western Ghats of India. Zootaxa 3964(5): 569-576. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3964.5.7

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2015c). Theridion echinatum Gao & Li, 2014, a junior synonym of Theridion zonulatum Thorell, 1890 (Araneae, Theridiidae) with comments on its web architecture. Zootaxa 4007(1): 138-142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4007.1.12

Sas-Kovács, É.-H., Sas-Kovács, I. & Urák, I. (2015). Alopecosa psammophila Buchar, 2001 (Araneae: Lycosidae): morphometric data and first record for Romania. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 353-358. doi:10.3906/zoo-1404-11

Satam, Y. (2015). Redescription of Latrodectus geometricus Koch, 1841 (Araneae: Therididae [sic]) with a new record of male from Mumbai (India). Indian Journal of Arachnology 4(2): 37-42.

Saturnino, R., Rodrigues, B. V. B. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2015). Alpaida (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Amazon Basin and Ecuador: new species, new records and complementary descriptions. Zoologia (Curitiba) 32(3): 241-256. doi:10.1590/S1984-46702015000300008

Saturnino, R. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2015). Taxonomic review of the New World spider genus Elaver O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa 4045(1): 1-119. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4045.1.1

Saucedo, A. D., Ubick, D. & Griswold, C. E. (2015). The goblin spiders of the new genus Volborattella (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Madagascar. American Museum Novitates 3822: 1-71.

Schäfer, M. (2015b). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67. doi:10.5431/aramit4907

Schäfer, M. (2015a). Erstnachweis von Sibianor tantulus (Simon, 1868) (Araneae, Salticidae) für das Bundesland Berlin. Märkische Entomologische Nachrichten 17(1): 125-127.

Schäfer, M. & Krumm, G. (2015). Erster gesicherter Nachweis der Springspinne Heliophanus kochii (Salticidae, Araneae) in Deutschland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 57-60. doi:10.5431/aramit5008

Schikora, H.-B. (2015). Die Webspinnen des Nationalparks Harz. Schriftenreihe aus dem Nationalpark Harz 13: 1-371. [only relevant pages included in PDF]

Schwendinger, P. J. & Košulič, O. (2015). Two new species of armoured spiders from Vietnam and Cambodia (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae: Pacullinae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 122(2): 423-436.

Sebastian, P. A., Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J. & Joseph, M. M. (2015). Description of new species of Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 from the Western Ghats of India with the redescription of Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser, 1934 and notes on mating plug in the genus (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 491: 63-78. doi:10.3897/zookeys.491.8218

Seiter, M. & Wesolowska, W. (2015). Two new Thiratoscirtus species from Gabon (Araneae, Salticidae, Thiratoscirtinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 123: 1-9. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.123

Sen, S., Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2015). Spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of Reserve Forests of Dooars: Gorumara National Park, Chapramari Wildlife Sanctuary and Mahananda Wildlife Sanctuary. World Scientific News 20: 1-339.

Sentenská, L., Pekár, S., Lipke, E., Michalik, P. & Uhl, G. (2015). Female control of mate plugging in a female-cannibalistic spider (Micaria sociabilis). BMC Evolutionary Biology 15: 18 (p. 1-12). doi:10.1186/s12862-014-0278-9

Seo, B. K. (2015a). A new and two newly recorded species of Theridiidae and Dictynidae (Araneae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 33(2): 105-111. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2015.33.2.105

Seo, B. K. (2015b). A new species of the spider genus Ebrechtella Dahl and first record of Ozyptila utotchkini Marusik, with the first description of the male of Ozyptila geumoensis Seo and Sohn (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 33(2): 112-118. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2015.33.2.112

Seo, B. K. (2015d). Four new species of the genera Masirana and Longileptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 33(3): 306-313. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2015.33.3.306

Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2015). Description of the previously unknown female of Drassodes bifidus Kovblyuk & Seyyar, 2009 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 1030-1033. doi:10.3906/zoo-1312-22

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

Siliwal, M., Molur, S. & Raven, R. (2015). New genus with two new species of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from Arunachal Pradesh, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 8: 43-48. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2015.01.005

Silva, E. L. C. da, Gibbons, A. & Sierwald, P. (2015). Description of the male of Dolomedes raptoroides Zhang, Zhu & Song, 2004 (Araneae: Lycosoidea: Pisauridae). Zootaxa 3946(1): 139-145. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3946.1.8

Silva, E. L. C. da & Sierwald, P. (2015). First description of the male of Rothus vittatus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Pisauridae), with a review of the African nursery web spider genus Rothus Simon, 1898. African Invertebrates 56(2): 325-341.

Silva-Moreira, T. da & Hormiga, G. (2015). Redescription and phylogenetic placement of the Hispaniolan spider genus Lomaita Bryant, 1948 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 3920(2): 249-264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3920.2.2

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2015). New spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 16(7): 264-272. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.7.264

Sozontov, A. N. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015). Taxonomical remarks about two spider species from the genus Tetragnatha Latreille 1804 (Aranei, Tetragnathidae). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 94(3): 311-319. [English version in Entomological Review 95(3): 406-414]

Suguro, T. (2015). New data of Hahnia (Araneae: Hahniidae) in Japan with a description of a new species. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(1): 11-15.

Suguro, T. & Nagano, H. (2015). A new species of the genus Icius (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(2): 91-95.

Sunil, J. K. & Prasanth, M. T. (2015). New information on Annandaliella travancorica Hirst, 1909 from Western Ghats of India (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 10(1): 188-193.

Tabrizi, S. S., Rad, S. P. & Hedayati, Z. (2015). A new record for the spider fauna of Iran: Olios sericeus (Araneae: Sparassidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 338-339. doi:10.3906/zoo-1401-59

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2015). A new Gongylidiellum Simon, 1884 from the western Caucasus (Arachnida: Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(1): 113-116.

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Wunderlich, J. (2015). A new Megalepthyphantes Wunderlich 1994 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from a cave of Crete (Greece). Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 452-455.

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2015). Notes on the spider genus Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883 with description of eleven new species from India (Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 122(2): 381-398.

Tanasevitch, A. V., Ponomarev, A. V. & Chumachenko, Y. A. (2015). Notes on the spider genus Bisetifer Tanasevitch, 1987 (Aranei: Linyphiidae), with the description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 445-450.

Tanikawa, A. & Petcharad, B. (2015). A new species of Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae) from Thailand. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(1): 17-20.

Teixeira, R. A. & Barros, B. A. R. (2015). Taxonomic notes on the crab spider genera Stephanopoides and Isaloides (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Zootaxa 3956(2): 281-287. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3956.2.8

Thomas, T. J. (2015). Anyphaena sabina and Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart, 1886) at the Wildlife Garden, the Natural History Museum. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 134: 10.

Tilly, J.-J. (2015a). Découverte en France de Diplocephalus machadoi Bosmans & Cardoso, 2010 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 6-7.

Tilly, J.-J. (2015b). Sibianor larae (Logunov, 2001) (Araneae, Salticidae), espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique 2 2: 12-15.

Tiunov, A. V. (2015). Redescription of the orb-weaver spider Larinioides jalimovi (Bachwalov 1981) (Aranei, Araneidae). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 94(4): 484-487. doi:10.7868/S0044513415040170

Tong, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2015a). Six new species of the genus Opopaea Simon, 1891 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 3931(1): 41-62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.3

Tong, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2015b). One new genus and two new species of oonopid spiders from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae, Oonopidae). ZooKeys 494: 1-12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.494.9183

Torres, V. M., Pardo, P. L., González-Reyes, A. X., Rodríguez Artigas, S. M. & Corronca, J. A. (2015). New records of seven species of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) from the northern Argentina. Check List 11(2): 1629 (p. 1-9). doi:10.15560/11.3.1629

Türkeş, T., Karabulut, H., Demir, H. & Seyyar, O. (2015). Contributions to the Linyphiidae fauna of Turkey (Arachnida: Araneae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 39: 560-564. doi:10.3906/zoo-1405-69

Valdez-Mondragón, A. & Francke, O. F. (2015). Phylogeny of the spider genus Ixchela Huber, 2000 (Araneae: Pholcidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence (CO1 and 16S), with a hypothesized diversification in the Pleistocene. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175: 20-58. doi:10.1111/zoj.12265

Van Keer, J. & Jacobs, M. (2015). Abacoproeces saltuum (L. Koch, 1872) (Araneae, Linyphiidae), a new species for the Belgian spider fauna. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(1): 13-15.

Vidhel, B. P., Malik, S., Sabata, B. C. & Das, S. K. (2015). A new spider species of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillinae) from India. International Journal of Science and Research 4(7): 2332-2336.

Waldock, J. M. (2015). A new species of peacock spider, Maratus proszynskii sp. nov. (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), from Tasmania, with a review of Maratus in Tasmania, Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 30: 144-150. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.30(2).2015.144-150

Wang, F., Ono, H. & Tu, L. H. (2015). A review of Solenysa spiders from Japan (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with a comment on the type species S. mellotteei Simon, 1894. ZooKeys 481: 39-56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.481.8545

Wang, L. Y., Li, Z. X., Zhou, K. X. & Zhang, Z. S. (2015a). Redescription of three Hippasa species from China (Araneae: Lycosidae), with a proposed species group-division and diagnosis. Zootaxa 3974(2): 231-244. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3974.2.7

Wang, L. Y., Chen, H. M., Zhou, K. X., Zhang, F. & Zhang, Z. S. (2015b). Diversity of spiders in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, I: Six new species of Phrurolithidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4012(3): 447-464. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4012.3.2

Wang, L. & Zhang, F. (2015). The first description of the male Synaphosus femininis (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from Hainan Island, China. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 437-441.

Wang, M., Wu, P. L. & Zhang, F. (2015). Descriptions of two new species of the Clubiona corticalis-group (Araneae: Clubionidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(2): 83-89.

Wesolowska, W. & Wiśniewski, K. (2015). New data on Belippo and Myrmarachne of Kenya (Araneae: Salticidae: Myrmarachninae). Zootaxa 3980(4): 547-561. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3980.4.5

Wesolowska, W. (2015). Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 477-482.

Whitman-Zai, J., Francis, M., Geick, M. & Cushing, P. E. (2015). Revision and morphological phylogenetic analysis of the funnel web spider genus Agelenopsis (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 1-25.

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesolowska, W. (2015). Maro lehtineni (Araneae: Linyphiidae) - a spider species new to the fauna of Poland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 81-84. doi:10.5431/aramit5011

Wongprom, P. & Wiwatwitaya, D. (2015). One new species of the genus Savarna Huber, 2005 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from southern Thailand. ZooKeys 498: 1-5. doi:10.3897/zookeys.498.9269

Wu, P. L., Zheng, G. & Zhang, F. (2015). Two new species of the Clubiona corticalis-group from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Clubionidae). ZooKeys 496: 15-25. doi:10.3897/zookeys.496.9223

Wunderlich, J. (2015a). Descriptions of the new subgenera Parvidipoena and Simonola of the genus Lasaeola Simon 1881 s. l. which include two tiny European species (Araneae: Theridiidae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 437-445.

Wunderlich, J. (2015b). Descriptions of two Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Portugal: Phaeocedus mikha Levy 2009 new to Europe, and Gnaphosa monteserra n. sp. Beiträge zur Araneologie 9: 446-449.

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.488.8726

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015b). Integrative taxonomy of the primitively segmented spider genus Ganthela (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae): DNA barcoding gap agrees with morphology. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175: 288-306. doi:10.1111/zoj.12280

Yamasaki, T. (2015). [Studies on taxonomy, biogeography and mimicry of the genus Myrmarachne in Southeast Asia]. Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 64(1): 49-56.

Yan, M., Liang, X. & Tu, L. (2015). On the desmitracheate “micronetine” genus Nippononeta Eskov, 1992 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 484: 95-109. doi:10.3897/zookeys.484.8663

Yao, Z. Y., Pham, D. S. & Li, S. Q. (2015). Pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from northern Vietnam, with descriptions of nineteen new species. Zootaxa 3909(1): 1-82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3909.1.1

Yoo, J.-S., Lee, S. Y. & Kim, S. T. (2015). Description of two unrecorded spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Korea. Journal of Forest and Environmental Science 31(1): 63-67. doi:10.7747/JFES.2015.31.1.63

Yoshida, H. (2015). Parasteatoda and a new genus Campanicola (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Taiwan. Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefectural Museum 33: 25-38.

Żabka, M. & Patoleta, B. M. (2015). New species of Tauala Wanless, 1988 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida: Astiae), with a redefinition of the genus. Zootaxa 4000(5): 501-517. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4000.5.1

Zamani, A. (2015). The spider collection (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Zoological Museum of the Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection, with new species records for Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 11-18. doi:10.5431/aramit5002

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Jannesar, B., Marusik, Y. M. & Esyunin, S. L. (2015). New data on spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), Part II. Zoology and Ecology 25(4): 339-346. doi:10.1080/21658005.2015.1068508

Zhang, J. X. & Maddison, W. P. (2015). Genera of euophryine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae), with a combined molecular-morphological phylogeny. Zootaxa 3938(1): 1-147. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3938.1.1

Zhang, B. S., Zhang, Z. S. & Zhang, F. (2015). Three new Sinopoda species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 3974(1): 59-75. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3974.1.4

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2015). The first record of Andoharano Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae: Filistatidae) from mainland Africa. African Invertebrates 56(2): 483-489.

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2015). A survey of spider taxa new to Israel (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoology in the Middle East 61(4): 372-385. doi:10.1080/09397140.2015.1095525

2016

Akpinar, A., Varol, M. İ. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016). New records to the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Eutichuridae, Gnaphosidae). Serket 15(1): 41-43.

Benavides, L. R. & Hormiga, G. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 4046(1): 1-72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1

Bosmans, R. & Castro, A. (2016). Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus n. sp., a new Cantabro-Pyrenean spider species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 17(1): 43-46.

Brescovit, A. D., Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Cizauskas, I. (2016). Three new species of Misionella from northern Brazil (Araneae, Haplogynae, Filistatidae). ZooKeys 589: 71-96. doi:10.3897/zookeys.589.7951

Bustamante, A. A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2016). Three new species of Kalcerrytus Galiano, 2000 from Brazil (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4066(1): 41-51. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4066.1.2

Cabra-García, J. & Brescovit, A. D. (2016). Revision and phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4069(1): 1-183. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4069.1.1

Caleb, J. T. D. & Mathai, M. T. (2016). A new jumping spider of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina). Zootaxa 4103(2): 185-188. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.10

Carvalho, L. S., Shimano, Y., Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2016). More on the spider genus Xeropigo O.P.-Cambridge (Araneae, Corinnidae, Corinninae): seven new species and new records from Brazil. Zootaxa 4111(4): 365-392. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.3

Chen, L., Zhao, Z. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Six new species of the spider genus Spiricoelotes species (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in Jiangxi, China. ZooKeys 561: 1-19. doi:10.3897/zookeys.561.6965

Chen, H. M., Yu, Z. G. & Guo, X. (2016). One new spider species of genus Belisana (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(2): 227-230. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20150275

Danişman, T., Karanfil, K. C. & Coşar, İ. (2016). A new species of Coelotes Blackwall, 1841 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey. Turkish Journal of Zoology 40: 147-150. doi:10.3906/zoo-1505-2

Danişman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2016). Walckenaeria cirriceps Thaler, 1996, a new record from Turkey (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Serket 15(1): 47-49.

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L., Miller, J. & Floren, A. (2016). Depreissia decipiens, an enigmatic canopy spider from Borneo revisited (Araneae, Salticidae), with remarks on the distribution and diversity of canopy spiders in Sabah, Borneo. ZooKeys 556: 1-17. doi:10.3897/zookeys.556.6174

Deltshev, C. & Wang, C. X. (2016). A new Agraecina spider species from the Balkan Peninsula (FYR Macedonia) (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 4117(1): 135-140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4117.1.8

Denton, J. (2016). Clubiona leucaspis Simon, 1932 (Clubionidae) new to Britain in Surrey. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 135: 5-6.

Durán-Barrón, C. G., Pérez, T. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2016). Two new synanthropic species of Anyphaena Sundevall (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) associated to houses in Mexico City. Zootaxa 4103(2): 189-194. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.2.11

El-Hennawy, H. K., Mohafez, M. A., El-Gendy, A. A. & Zaher, I. A. I. (2016). The first record of Ostearius melanopygius (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1879) and genus Ostearius Hull, 1911 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Egypt. Serket 15(1): 63-67.

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016). A note on Oecobius amboseli Shear & Benoit, 1974 (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Serket 15(1): 68-70.

Feng, P., Zhang, Y., Wu, X. M., Ma, Y. Y., Yang, T. B., Li, C. G. & Yang, Z. Z. (2016). Four new species of Psechrus from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Psechridae). Zootaxa 4088(2): 177-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4088.2.2

Fomichev, A. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2016). On the synonymy of two Acantholycosa species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the Altai. ZooKeys 559: 151-156. doi:10.3897/zookeys.559.7048

Fomichev, A. A. (2016a). New data on the spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from Altai Territory, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 119-126.

Freudenschuss, M. & Seiter, M. (2016). Four new species of the jumping spiders from the Philippines, with description of the male of Phintella piatensis Barrion et Litsinger, 1995 (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 85-97.

Freudenschuss, M., Grabolle, A. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2016). A new species of Gambaquezonia from the Philippine island of Panay (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 17(1): 25-27.

Fu, L., Zhang, Z. S. & Zhang, F. (2016). New Otacilia species from Southwest China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Zootaxa 4107(2): 197-221. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4107.2.4

Gall, W. K. & Edwards, G. B. (2016). First records for the jumping spiders Heliophanus kochii in the Americas and Myrmarachne formicaria in New York State (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 140.1: 1-7.

Galvis, W. (2016). New records and updated distribution of the ant-like jumping spider genus Zuniga Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (Salticidae: Salticinae: Sarindini) in the Neotropics. Peckhamia 139.1: 1-11.

Galvis, W. & Muñoz-Charry, V. (2016). First record of the genus Descanso Peckham & Peckham, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Colombia, with a complementary description of D. peregrinus Chickering, 1946. Peckhamia 138.1: 1-6.

Gavish-Regev, E., Aharon, S., Armiach, I & Lubin, Y. D. (2016). Cave survey yields a new spider family record for Israel. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 39-42. doi:10.5431/aramit5105

Gnelitsa, V. A. (2016). A new species of the spider genus Taranucnus from Ukraine (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4103(1): 87-93. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.1.11

Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2016). Four new species of the spider genus Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 from Laos, Thailand and Myanmar and the first description of the male of Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 with a proposed new diagnostic character for the family Nesticidae Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 4085(2): 248-264. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.5

Grismado, C. J. & Pizarro-Araya, J. (2016). The spider genus Cyrioctea Simon on Chañaral Island (Pingüino de Humboldt National Reserve, Atacama, Chile): description of a new species, and the male of Cyrioctea cruz Platnick (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4107(2): 267-276. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4107.2.8

Hamilton, C. A., Hendrixson, B. E. & Bond, J. E. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the tarantula genus Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) within the United States. ZooKeys 560: 1-340. [Supplementary material] doi:10.3897/zookeys.560.6264

Hänggi, A. & Straub, S. (2016). Storage buildings and greenhouses as stepping stones for non-native potentially invasive spiders (Araneae) - a baseline study in Basel, Switzerland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 1-8. doi:10.5431/aramit5101

Huber, B. A. & Leh Moi Ung, C. (2016). The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah. European Journal of Taxonomy 184: 1-32. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.184

Huber, B. A. (2016). A new genus of ground and litter-dwelling pholcine spiders from Sarawak (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 186: 1-15. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.186

Huber, B. A., Petcharad, B., Leh Moi Ung, C., Koh, J. K. H. & Ghazali, A. R. M. (2016a). The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae): new data from field observations and ultrastructure. European Journal of Taxonomy 190: 1-55. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.190

Jäger, P. & Kulkarni, S. (2016). An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India. ZooKeys 577: 55-62. doi:10.3897/zookeys.577.7848

Kaderka, R. (2016). The Neotropical genus Cyriocosmus Simon, 1903 and new species from Peru, Brazil and Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Journal of Natural History 50(7-8): 393-465. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1076082

Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2016). Redescription of the Jamaican orb-weaving spider Chrysometa pecki Levi, 1986 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae), including the first description of the male. Zootaxa 4066(1): 95-100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4066.1.11

Koçyiğit, H. O., Demir, H. & Seyyar, O. (2016). The spider fauna of Hasan Mountain in Turkey. Serket 15(1): 8-29.

Komnenov, M., Pitta, E., Zografou, K. & Chatzaki, M. (2016). Discovering the still unexplored arachnofauna of the National Park of Dadia-Lefkimi-Soufli, NE Greece: a taxonomic review with description of new species. Zootaxa 4096(1): 1-66. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4096.1.1

Kunt, K. B., Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Marusik, Y. M. & Karakaş, G. (2016). Harpactea karaschkhan sp. n., a new cave-dwelling blind spider species from the Mediterranean region of Turkey. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 78(1): 36-40. doi:10.4311/2015LSC0106

Kuzmin, E. A. & Azarkina, G. N. (2016). Jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae) in Ulyanovsk oblast. Biologiya – Tomsk State University Journal of Biology 1(33): 82-101. doi:10.17223/19988591/33/6

Kuzmin, E. A. & Esyunin, S. L. (2016). The first record of Shaitan (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) for Russia. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 1: 22-28.

Lecigne, S. (2016a). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) de Crète (Grèce) et description de la femelle inconnue de Neaetha absheronica Logunov & Guseinov, 2002 (Salticidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 30(3): 95-118.

Leister, M. & Miller, K. B. (2016). First description of the male Hoedillus sexpunctatus Simon, 1898; a redescription of the female, and transfer of Hoedillus to Zoropsidae Bertkau, 1882 (Araneae). Zootaxa 4107(3): 447-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4107.3.14

Lin, Y. C. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Mysmenidae, a spider family newly recorded from Tibet (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 549: 51-69. doi:10.3897/zookeys.549.6046

Lissner, J. & Chatzaki, M. (2016a). A new species of Berinda (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from the eastern Aegean Islands, Greece. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 9-11. doi:10.5431/aramit5102

Lissner, J. & Chatzaki, M. (2016b). Description of a new Altella Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Greece. Arachnology 17(1): 39-42.

Lo, Y. Y. & Lin, C. P. (2016). A new record and re-description of Oxyopes sushilae (Araneae, Oxyopidae) from Taiwan. Taiwan Journal of Biodiversity 18(2): 137-144.

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Zhang, J. X. & Szüts, T. (2016). Phylogenetic placement of the unusual jumping spider Depreissia Lessert, and a new synapomorphy uniting Hisponinae and Salticinae (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 549: 1-12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.549.6171

Malik, S., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2016). First description of male lynx spider Oxyopes bharatae Gajbe, 1999 (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 11(2): 473-476.

Marusik, Y. M., Koponen, S. & Makarova, O. L. (2016). A survey of spiders (Araneae) collected on the arctic island of Dolgiy (69°12′N), Barents Sea. Arachnology 17(1): 10-24.

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2016). Redescription of Draposa subhadrae (Patel & Reddy, 1993) (Araneae: Lycosidae, Pardosinae). Zootaxa 4107(1): 89-92. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4107.1.6

Maya-Morales, J. & Jiménez, M. L. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the spider genus Rualena Chamberlin & Ivie 1942 and description of Hoffmannilena, a new genus from Mexico (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 4084(1): 1-49. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4084.1.1

Mikhailov, K. G. (2016a). On the spider genus Arboricaria with the description of a new species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). ZooKeys 558: 153-169. doi:10.3897/zookeys.558.6521

Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2016). On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4121(2): 187-193. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.2.9

Moss, D. F., Feitosa, N. M., Bonaldo, A. B. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2016). Description of eleven new species of the goblin spider genus Neoxyphinus Birabén, 1953 (Araneae, Oonopidae). Zootaxa 4098(1): 95-133. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4098.1.4

Murthappa, P. S., Prajapati, D. A., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016). First records of the genus Cambalida Simon, 1909 (Araneae: Corinnidae, Castianeirinae) from Asia, with the description of two new species from India and one new combination. Zootaxa 4103(6): 526-536. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4103.6.3

Nadolny, A. A., Omelko, M. M., Marusik, Y. M. & Blagoev, G. (2016). A new species of spider belonging to the Pardosa lugubris-group (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Far East Asia. Zootaxa 4072(2): 263-281. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.2.8

Namaghi, H. S., Safari, A., Entezari, E. & Zamani, A. (2016). New faunistic records of spiders (Araneae) from Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran. Zoology and Ecology 26(1): 18-21. doi:10.1080/21658005.2015.1104812

Oliveira, L. F. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2016). The first male of the spider genus Temnida Simon, 1896 (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae). Arachnology 17(1): 47-51.

Omelko, M. M., Komisarenko, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A new species of Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 4072(5): 596-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.5.9

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2016a). Males of a new species of Jotus from Australia wave a paddle-shaped lure to solicit nearby females (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 133.1: 1-39.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2016b). Maratus fimbriatus, a new peacock spider from the Darling Riverine Plains of New South Wales, with a review of the Maratus chrysomelas group (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 136.1: 1-24.

Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M. & Kunt, K. B. (2016). Ero flammeola Simon, 1881 (Araneae, Mimetidae); a new record for Turkish spider fauna. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, C 4(2): 73-76. doi:10.18036/btdc.96405

Patoleta, B. M. (2016). Revision of the genus Rhondes Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Caledonia. Insect Systematics & Evolution 47: 15-31. doi:10.1163/1876312X-46052131

Pérez-González, A., Rubio, G. D. & Ramírez, M. J. (2016). Insights on vulval morphology in Ochyroceratinae with a rediagnosis of the subfamily and description of the first Argentinean species (Araneae: Synspermiata: Ochyroceratidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 260: 33-44. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2015.12.001

Prajapati, D. A., Murthappa, P. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016). Two new species of the ant-eating spider genus Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 (Araneae, Zodariidae, Zodariinae) from India. Zootaxa 4061(5): 575-584. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4061.5.7

Rajoria, A. (2016a). Newly recorded species: Steatoda cingulata (Thorell, 1890) from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 15(1): 50-52.

Rajoria, A. (2016b). Newly recorded species: Parasteatoda oxymaculata (Zhu, 1998) from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 15(1): 53-55.

Rajoria, A. (2016c). Newly recorded species: Euryopis episinoides (Walckenaer, 1847) from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 15(1): 56-59.

Rajoria, A. & Jadhao, H. (2016). First record of genus Orchestina Simon, 1882 in India (Araneae: Oonopidae). Serket 15(1): 60-62.

Ramírez, M. J. & Grismado, C. J. (2016). Description of the spider Verita williamsi, a new genus and species from Santa Fe, Argentina (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 17(2): 173-182.

Rheims, C. A. & Alayón, G. (2016). Neostasina gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae). Zootaxa 4079(3): 301-344. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4079.3.1

Richardson, B. J. (2016). New genera, new species and redescriptions of Australian jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4114(5): 501-560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.1

Rubio, G. D., Baigorria, J. E. & Edwards, G. B. (2016). First description of the female of the jumping spider Balmaceda nigrosecta Mello-Leitão (Salticidae, Dendryphantini, Marpissina). ZooKeys 563: 11-19. doi:10.3897/zookeys.563.6705

Růžička, V. & Dolanský, J. (2016). Catching of spiders in shallow subterranean habitats in the Czech Republic. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 43-48. doi:10.5431/aramit5106

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016). A checklist of Indian armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) with the description of a new species from the Western Ghats. Zootaxa 4084(3): 443-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4084.3.9

Schäfer, M. (2016). Zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae, Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Kos, mit zwölf Erstnachweisen. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 73-79. doi:10.5431/aramit5111

Seyyar, O., Oba, A., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2016). Arabelia Bosselaers, 2009 and Arabelia pheidoleicomes Bosselaers, 2009 (Araneae: Liocranidae) are new records for the Turkish spider fauna. Serket 15(1): 30-32.

Simó, M., Álvarez, L. & Laborda, Á. (2016). The orb-weaving spider genus Chrysometa in Uruguay: distribution and description of a new species (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4067(5): 589-593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4067.5.7

Spasojevic, T., Kropf, C., Nentwig, W. & Lasut, L. (2016). Combining morphology, DNA sequences, and morphometrics: revising closely related species in the orb-weaving spider genus Araniella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4111(4): 448-470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4111.4.6

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2016). A new Agyneta Hull, 1911 from northern Yakutia, Russia (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 75-76.

Tonini, L., Paulo da Silva, J., Serpa Filho, A. & Freitas, J. (2016). Replacement names for two preoccupied generic names in Arthropoda. Zootaxa 4097(1): 125-126. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4097.1.7

Torres, V. M., Pardo, P. L., González-Reyes, A. X., Rodríguez Artigas, S. M. & Corronca, J. A. (2016). Contributions on the spider families Nesticidae and Pholcidae (Araneae) from Argentina. Turkish Journal of Zoology 40: 6-13. doi:10.3906/zoo-1504-38

Van Keer, J., Lambrechts, J., Jacobs, M. & Kekenbosch, R. (2016). Porrhomma cambridgei Merrett, 1994 (Araneae, Linyphiidae), a species new to the Belgian spider fauna. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 31(1): 25-29.

Varol, İ. (2016a). Two new Dysdera species from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Entomological News 125(4): 281-288. doi:10.3157/021.125.0409

Varol, M. İ. (2016b). Stalagtia hercegovinensis (Nosek, 1905), a new record from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 15(1): 44-46.

Wu, Y., Wang, C. X., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Three new species of the genus Leptonetela from Greece (Araneae, Leptonetidae). ZooKeys 569: 23-35. doi:10.3897/zookeys.569.6921

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Rashidi, P., Marusik, Y. M., Moradmand, M. & Bolzern, A. (2016). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei), part III. Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 99-114.

Zhang, T. Y. & Lin, Y. C. (2016). First description of the male of Baalzebub youyiensis Zhao & Li (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(2): 221-226. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20150367

Zhao, Z. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Papiliocoelotes gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from the Wuling Mountains, China. ZooKeys 585: 33-50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.585.8007

Zhou, B., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2016). First description of the male of Hitobia makotoi Kamura, 2011 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). ZooKeys 579: 1-7. doi:10.3897/zookeys.579.7489

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2016). A redescription of the type species of Tricalamus Wang 1987 (Aranei, Filistatidae). Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 95(5): 540-544. doi:10.7868/S0044513416050159