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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

Al-Hadlag, K. S. & Najim, S. A. (2015). First record of red-back spider Latrodectus hasselti Thorell, 1870 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Basrah, south of Iraq. Journal of Purity, Utility Reaction and Environment 4(2): 91-98.

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. doi:10.1206/3835.1

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. doi:10.22179/revmacn.17.397

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0204

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

Baba, Y. G. & Tanikawa, A. (2015). The handbook of spiders. Bun-ichi Sogo Shuppan, Tokyo, 112 pp.

Baba, Y. G., Osawa, T. & Murakami, Y. (2015). Spiders collected at Nakodo-jima, Muko-jima and Chichi-jima of the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands, Japan. Kishidaia 107: 16-17.

Baba, Y. G. & Tanaka, K. (2015). Spiders collected in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. Kishidaia 107: 18.

Baba, Y. G. (2015). Spiders collected from abandoned paddy fields in Chiba and Ibaraki Prefectures, Japan. Kishidaia 107: 23-24.

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, R. (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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0205

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. doi:10.1206/3824.1

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0206

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.9.319

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

Breitling, R. & Bauer, T. (2015). Remarks on synonyms of European Larinioides species (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnology 16(9): 305-310. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.9.305

Breitling, R. (2015b). Taxonomic notes on dubious spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) from the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 477-481.

Bryja, V. (2015). Plachetnatka trávomilná (Neriene furtiva O. P.-Cambridge, 1871) zpátky v české arachnofauně. Pavouk 39: 9-12.

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-Daza, 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, J. T. D. & 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, J. T. D., 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 64(2): 97-99. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.97

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. & 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.

Danışman, 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.

Déjean, S. (2015c). Contribution à l'inventaire des araignées (Arachnida, Araneae) et opilions (Arachnida, Opiliones) de l'île de Porquerolles (Var, Provence, France). Scientific Reports of Port-Cros national Park 29: 75-102.

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

Dolejš, P. (2015). Pirata von Noldenteich. Pavouk 38: 4-5.

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. doi:10.3161/00034541anz2015.65.1.008

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). Euroasian 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 64(2): 63-70. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.63

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

Franc, V. (2015). Latest findings of Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 (Araneae: Eutichuridae) in Slovakia, notes to its ecology and occurrence. Naturae Tutela 19(2): 159-162.

Fu, L. N., He, J. C. & Zhang, F. (2015). Species of the genus Otacilia from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Zoological Systematics 40(4): 436-450.

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.8.298

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.9.351

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

Gan, J. H. & Peng, X. J. (2015). One new species of the cob web spider genus Thymoites from China (Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 24(2): 65-69. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2015.02.001

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., Agnarsson, I., Blackledge, T. A. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). Phylogenetic position and composition of Zygiellinae and Caerostris, with new insight into orb-web evolution and gigantism. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 175(2): 225-243. doi:10.1111/zoj.12281

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

Guadanucci, J. P. L. & Weinmann, D. (2015). Description of Neoholothele gen. nov. (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Schismatothelinae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 50(3): 221-228. doi:10.1080/01650521.2015.1110309

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0208

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 64(1): 45-48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.45

Harvey, M. S., Main, B. Y., Rix, M. G. & Cooper, S. J. B. (2015). Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae: Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 29(6): 511-553. doi:10.1071/IS15024

Hauke, T. & Wirth, V. von (2015). Haplopelma longipes von Wirth & Striffler 2005 – introduction of a new colour form in the hobby. British Tarantula Society Journal 30(1): 44-53.

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 SPINED 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 SPINED 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

Hill, D. E. & Otto, J. C. (2015). Exasperating taxonomy of the colourful ant-mimic Myrmarachne exasperans (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida: Myrmarachinae). Peckhamia 131.1: 1-5.

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., Petcharad, B. & Bumrungsri, S. (2015). Revision of the enigmatic Southeast Asian spider genus Savarna (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 160: 1-23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2015.160

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

Hula, V. (2015). Několik poznámek k rodu Sibianor Logunov, 2001. Pavouk 39: 8-9.

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0209

Jäger, P. (2015). Conductor-less and vertically niched: new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Myanmar. Arachnology 16(9): 333-350. doi:10.13156/arac.2015.16.9.333

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., 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

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

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0210

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.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2015b). One new record species of the genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 19-23.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H., Kim, T. W. & Kim, D. H. (2015d). 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. (2015f). One new record species of the genus Callobius woljeongensis Kim & Ye, 2013 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 31(1): 43-46.

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. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-43.2.182

Kroc, V., Kůrka, A. & Šestáková, A. (2015). Nález Araneus saevus. Každá vzácná věc je předem podezřelá – je to A. saevus? Pátranie po znakoch. Pavouk 39: 12-17.

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. & 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. doi:10.11609/jott.o4266.7701-3

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

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. doi:10.11609/jott.o4154.7697-700

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, 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

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

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, 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

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

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 64(1): 39-44. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.39

Logunov, D. V. & Jäger, P. (2015). Spiders from Vietnam (Arachnida: Aranei): new species and records. Russian Entomological Journal 24(4): 343-363.

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(3): 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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0211

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

Lucas, S. M. & Indicatti, R. P. (2015). Revalidation of Dolichothele Mello-Leitão and notes on Hapalotremus Simon (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 50(3): 204-212. doi:10.1080/01650521.2015.1103553

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0212

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

Maddison, W. P. (2015). A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43(3): 231-292. doi:10.1636/arac-43-03-231-292

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., 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.

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

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., Mikhailov, K. G. & Kuzmin, E. A. (2015). On the synonymy of Tetragnatha qiuae (Aranei: Tetragnathidae). Arthropoda Selecta 24(4): 443-444.

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

Marusik, Y. M. (2015). Araneae (Spiders). In: Böcher, J., Kristensen, N. P., Pape, T. & Vilhelmsen, L. (eds.) The Greenland Entomofauna. An identification manual of insects, spiders and their allies. Fauna Entomologica Scandinavica 44: 667-703. Brill, Leiden. doi:10.1163/9789004261051_019

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0213

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.

Murphy, J. A. & Roberts, M. J. (2015). Spider families of the world and their spinnerets. British Arachnological Society, York, volume 1 & 2, pp. i-xii, 1-189; xiii-xvi, 191-553.

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

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. doi:10.1206/3843.1

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, 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.

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.

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): 1-11. doi:10.3897/BDJ.3.e4419

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

Özkütük, R. S., Kunt, K. B., Gündüz, G. & Elverici, M. (2015c). A new record for Turkish mygalomorph spiders: Atypus muralis Bertkau, 1890 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Atypidae). Biological Diversity and Conservation 8(1): 138-142.

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(1): 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. doi:10.1206/3837.1

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(2): 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

Ponomarev, A. V. (2015). New species of spiders (Aranei) of the family Gnaphosidae from delta of the Don River. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 11(2): 259-261.

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. doi:10.21805/bzn.v72i1.a6

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0214

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.

Roušar, A. (2015). Krušné hory a skákavka Sibianor larae. Pavouk 39: 6-7.

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.

Rozwałka, R. & Stachowicz, J. (2015). The first record of Clubiona saxatilis C.L. Koch, 1867 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0215

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. doi:10.1206/3822.1

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.

Schmidt, G. (2015a). Notes on the nomenclature of theraphosids (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Tarantulas of the World 143: 13-22.

Schmidt, G. (2015b). Warum Melopoeus Pocock, 1895 kein Synonym von Haplopelma Simon, 1892 ist (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ornithoctoninae). Tarantulas of the World 143: 23-31.

Schmidt, G. (2015c). Warum Chilocosmia arndsti (Schmidt & von Wirth, 1992), Chilocosmia barensteinerae Schmidt, Hettegger & Matthes, 2010, Chilocosmia peerboomi Schmidt, 1999, Selenopelma kovariki Schmidt & Krause, 1995 und Phlogius Simon, 1887 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Selenocosmiinae) keine Synonyme von Selenocosmia Ausserer, 1871 sind. Tarantulas of the World 143: 32-38.

Schmidt, G. (2015d). Erster Nachweis einer Selenocosmia insulana-Subspezies auf Borneo (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae), S. insulana borneoensis ssp. n. Tarantulas of the World 143: 50-55.

Schmidt, G. & Barensteiner, R. (2015a). Ein Weibchen von Lampropelma nigerrimum arboricola ssp. n. aus Borneo (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Ornithoctoninae). Tarantulas of the World 143: 4-9.

Schmidt, G. & Barensteiner, R. (2015b). Eine neue Selenocosmia-Spezies von Borneo (Theraphosidae: Selenocosmiinae: Selenocosmiini). Tarantulas of the World 143: 39-49.

Schmidt, G. (2015e). Ergänzende Untersuchungen am Holotypus von Chilocosmia barensteinerae Schmidt, Hettegger & Matthes, 2010 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Selenocosmiinae). Tarantulas of the World 143: 10-12.

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. & Wesołowska, 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): 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. (2015c). Ten new species of the genus Falcileptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 33(3): 290-305. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2015.33.3.290

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0207

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

Smith, A. M. & Jacobi, M. A. (2015). Revision of the genus Phormingochilus with the description of three new species from Sulawesi and Sarawak and notes on the placement of the genera Cyriopagopus, Lampropelma and Omothymus. British Tarantula Society Journal 30(3): 25-48.

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 64(1): 11-15. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.11

Suguro, T. & Nagano, H. (2015). A new species of the genus Icius (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Ogasawara Islands, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 64(2): 91-95. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.91

Sunil Jose, 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 64(1): 17-20. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.17

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(1): 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, F., Ballesteros, J. A., Hormiga, G., Chesters, D., Zhang, Y. J., Sun, N., Zhu, C. D., Chen, W. & Tu, L. H. (2015c). Resolving the phylogeny of a speciose spider group, the family Linyphiidae (Araneae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 91: 135-149 & Appendices. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2015.05.005

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, 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, M., Wu, P. L. & Zhang, F. (2015). Descriptions of two new species of the Clubiona corticalis-group (Araneae: Clubionidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica 64(2): 83-89. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.83

Wesołowska, 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

Wesołowska, W. (2015). Ansienulina, a new genus of jumping spiders from tropical Africa (Araneae: Salticidae: Thiratoscirtinae). African Invertebrates 56(2): 477-482. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0216

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. doi:10.1636/k14-35.1

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, 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(2): 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 64(1): 49-56. doi:10.2476/asjaa.64.49

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

Yoo, J. S., Lee, S. Y., Im, M. S. & Kim, S. T. (2015). Bibliographic checklist of Korean spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) ver. 2015. Journal of Species Research 1(Special Issue): 1-112. doi:10.12651/JSR.2015.4(S).001

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, 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

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, Z. S. & Chen, H. M. (2015). Hahnia zhui sp. nov. (Hahniidae), a special species with a unique shape of tegulum. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 24(2): 70-75. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2015.02.002

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. doi:10.5733/afin.056.0217

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

Aakra, K., Morka, G. H., Antonson, A., Farlund, M., Wrånes, R. E., Frølandshagen, R., Løvbrekke, H., Furuseth, P., Fjellberg, A., Lemke, M., Pfliegler, W. P., Andersen, S., Olsen, K. M., Aadland, B. & Berggren, K. (2016). Spiders new to Norway (Arachnida, Araneae) with ecological, taxonomical and faunistic comments. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63(1): 6-43.

Abegg, A. D., Malta-Borges, L., Tavares des Carvalho, J. D., Mario-da-Rosa, C. & Di Mare, R. A. (2016). Cases of unjustified emendations of scientific names dedicated to people in tarantulas (Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Revista Colombiana de Entomología 42(2): 201-202.

Achitte-Schmutzler, H. C. & Rubio, G. D. (2016). First description of the male of the spider Tibellus paraguensis Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Philodromidae), with new distribution records. Zootaxa 4161(1): 146-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4161.1.12

Ade, P. P. & Dixit, G. S. (2016). Diversity and ecology of spider of the family Araneid Clerck 1757 from Shivaji College campus, Akola. International Journal of Scientific Research 5(12): 729-732.

Agnarsson, I., LeQuier, S. M., Kuntner, M., Cheng, R.-C., Coddington, J. A. & Binford, G. (2016). Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae, Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. ZooKeys 625: 25-44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.625.8729

Ahmed, J., Khalap, R. & Sumukha, J. N. (2016). A new species of dry foliage mimicking Eriovixia Archer, 1951 from central Western Ghats, India (Araneae: Araneidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 24-27.

Akpınar, 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.

Akpınar, A. (2016). A new species of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1833 from Turkey (Araneae: Zodariidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 11(2): 390-392.

Alderweireldt, M. & De Boever, C. (2016). Description of the unknown female of Drassodes difficilis (Simon, 1878) from Spain with illustrations of the male and some zoogeographical notes (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 34-36.

Ali, P. A., Zahid, M. & Butt, A. (2016). New record of spiders fauna of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, (Aranei; Sparassidae; Pholcidae) Pakistan. International Journal of Biosciences 9(6): 247-252. doi:10.12692/ijb/9.6.247-252

Alligand, B. & Henrard, A. (2016). Sur l’observation de prédation par Tapinesthis inermis (Simon, 1882) (Araneae, Oonopidae) sur un psoque et mise à jour de sa distribution en France. Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 21-26.

Andre, C. & Hüsser, M. (2016). Die Gattung Typhochlaena – Historie und Systematik sowie Habitat und Lebensweise von T. seladonia, T. costae und T. curumim. Arachne 21(3): 4-33.

Anikin, V. V. & Kuzmin, E. A. (2016). The finding of black widow – Latrodectus tredecimguttatus (Rossi, 1790) (Aranei, Theridiidae) on the territory of Saratov Province. Izvestiya of Saratov University. New Series. Series: Chemistry. Biology. Ecology 16(2): 220-221. doi:10.18500/1816-9775-2016-16-2-220-221

Azarkina, G. N., Esyunin, S. L., Kuzmin, E. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). On the synonymy of two wolf spider species of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae, Lycosidae) from the steppe zone of Russia. Zootaxa 4205(4): 339-348. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.2

Azevedo, G. H. F, Ott, R., Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2016). A taxonomic revision of the ground spiders of the genus Apopyllus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4178(3): 301-327. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.1

Baba, Y. G., Suguro, T., Naya, N. & Yamauchi, T. (2016). A gynandromorph of the funnel-web spider Allagelena opulenta (Araneae: Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica 65(1): 11-13. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.11

Baba, Y. G. & Yoshitake, H. (2016). A new record of Cheiracanthium taegense (Araneae: Eutichuridae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 65(1): 39-41. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.39

Baehr, B. C. & Whyte, R. (2016a). The peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species. Zootaxa 4154(5): 501-525. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4154.5.1

Baehr, B. C. & Whyte, R. (2016b). The first described male tube-web spider for mainland Australia: Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4189(3): 595-599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.3.11

Baert, L., Van Keer, J. & Wauters, N. (2016). The spider Theridion melanostictum (Araneae, Theridiidae), a recent introduction to Galapagos?. Galapagos Research 68: 13-14.

Barone, M. L., Werenkraut , V. & Ramírez, M. J. (2016). New species and phylogenetic relationships of the spider genus Coptoprepes using morphological and sequence data (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Zootaxa 4175(5): 436-448. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4175.5.2

Barrientos, J. A., Uribarri, I., García-Sarrión, R., Enríquez, M. L. & Giralt, D. (2016). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del Pla de Lleida (Lleida, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 91-101.

Basiuk, V. A. (2016). Mastophora corpulenta (Banks) bolas spider (Araneae: Araneidae) in central Mexico. Journal of Advanced Microscopy Research 11(2): 156-160. doi:10.1166/jamr.2016.1308

Basu, D. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). Rice land inhabiting long jawed orb weavers, Tetragnatha Latreille, 1804 (Tetragnathidae: Araneae) of South 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 55: 210-239.

Bauer, T., Wendt, I., Holstein, J. & Gabriel, G. (2016). Crossopriza lyoni new to Germany (Araneae: Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 4-6. doi:10.5431/aramit5202

Bellvert Bantí, A. (2016). First male record of Sintula retroversus (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1875) and confirmation of a Hypomma cornutum (Blackwall, 1833) population in the north east of the Iberian Peninsula (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 155-157.

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

Benjamin, S. P. (2016). Revision of Cebrenninus Simon, 1887 with description of one new genus and six new species (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 123(1): 179-200. doi:10.5281/zenodo.46304

Benjamin, S. P. & Clayton, C. I. (2016). Phylogenetic placement and revision of the tropical Asian crab spider genus Pagida (Araneae: Thomisidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30(4): 353-369. doi:10.1071/IS15054

Benjamin, S. P., Ileperuma Arachchi, I. S. & Herath, B. P. (2016). First record of Platythomisus sudeepi from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnology 17(3): 165-168. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.3.165

Benjamin, S. P. & Kanesharatnam, N. (2016). Description of three new species of the tropical Asian jumping spider genus Onomastus Simon, 1900 from high altitude cloud forests of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4205(5): 431-453. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.5.2

Bennett, R., Copley, C. & Copley, D. (2016). Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae): the Nearctic species of the Holarctic clade. Zootaxa 4164(1): 1-67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4164.1.1

Bertani, R., de Sena Santos, A., Abegg, A. D., Roncolatto Ortiz, F. & de Freitas, M. A. (2016). First record of the genus Psalmopoeus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil. Check List 12(2,1860): 1-4. doi:10.15560/12.2.1860

Bertani, R. & Leal, F. (2016). A new species of Pterinopelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from the highlands of the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil and description of the male of P. sazimai. Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(2,e20150190): 1-9. doi:10.1590/S1984-4689zool-20150190

Bidegaray-Batista, L., Sánchez-Gracia, A., Santulli, G., Maiorano, L., Guisan, A., Vogler, A. P. & Arnedo, M. A. (2016). Imprints of multiple glacial refugia in the Pyrenees revealed by phylogeography and palaeodistribution modelling of an endemic spider. Molecular Ecology 25(9): 2046-2064 & appendeces. doi:10.1111/mec.13585

Biswas, V. (2016). A new species of the genus Harmochirus Simon, 1885 from Bangladesh (Araneae: Salticidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 124-129.

Blick, T., Finch, O.-D., Harms, K. H., Kiechle, J., Kielhorn, K.-H., Kreuels, M., Malten, A., Martin, D., Muster, C., Nährig, D., Platen, R., Rödel, I., Scheidler, M., Staudt, A., Stumpf, H. & Tolke, D. (2016). Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70(4): 383-510.

Bodkhe, A. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Kamble, S. S. (2016a). First record of genus Hypsosinga Ausserer, 1871 from India with description of Hypsosinga satpuraensis sp. n. (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15(2): 92-96.

Bodkhe, A. K., Uniyal, V. P. & Kamble, S. S. (2016b). New spider species of genus Cambalida (Araneae: Corinnidae) from Satpura Landscape (MP), India. Serket 15(2): 97-103.

Bolzern, A. & Hänggi, A. (2016). Revision of the Nearctic Eratigena and Tegenaria species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 44(2): 105-141. doi:10.1636/R15-81

Bosmans, R. & Castro, A. (2016). Tenuiphantes cantabropyrenaeus n. sp., a new Cantabro-Pyrenean spider species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 17(1): 43-46. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.1.43

Bosmans, R., Oger, P. & Ponel, P. (2016). Altella emilieae Lissner, 2016 (Araneae: Dictynidae) is a junior synonym of Chaerea maritimus Simon, 1884 and a widespread Mediterranean halophilous species. Arachnology 17(3): 159-160. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.3.159

Bosselaers, J. & Van Keer, J. (2016). A redescription of Harpactea dufouri (Thorell, 1873) (Araneae, Dysderidae), its occurrence outside the Balearic Islands, and some notes on the corticalis group of the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 222: 1-13. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.222

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Grabolle, A., Oger, P., Pantini, P., Van Keer, J., Pfliegler, W. P., Jantscher, E. & Dolanský, J. (2016a). East meets West: on the true identity of Cheiracanthium rupestre and Xysticus albomaculatus (Arachnida: Araneae: Eutichuridae, Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 38-49. doi:10.5431/aramit5208

Breitling, R., Bauer, T., Schäfer, M., Morano, E., Barrientos, J. A. & Blick, T. (2016b). Phantom spiders 2: More notes on dubious spider species from Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 50-77. doi:10.5431/aramit5209

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

Brescovit, A. D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Alayón G., G. (2016). The Filistatidae in the Caribbean region, with a description of the new genus Antilloides, revision of the genus Filistatoides F. O. P.-Cambridge and notes on Kukulcania Lehtinen (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 4136(3): 401-432. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4136.3.1

Brescovit, A. D. & Sánchez-Ruiz, A. (2016). Descriptions of two new genera of the spider family Caponiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) and an update of Tisentnops and Taintnops from Brazil and Chile. ZooKeys 622: 47-88. doi:10.3897/zookeys.622.8682

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. (2016a). 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

Caleb, J. T. D. (2016a). A discovery and redescription of Curubis erratica Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(2): 207-211. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.2.07

Caleb, J. T. D. (2016b). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 271-277. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.06

Caleb, J. T. D. & Mathai, M. T. (2016b). Extended boundaries of the ant mimicking swift spider genus Aetius decollatus Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (Araneae: Corinnidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 36-41.

Caleb, J. T. D. (2016c). Taxonomic notes on some ant-mimicking jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 403-420. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.09

Caleb, J. T. D. & Sanap, R. V. (2016). Lessert’s rainbow spider, Stenaelurillus lesserti Reimoser (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina) from new localities in South India. Acta Arachnologica 65(2): 83-87. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.83

Caleb, J. T. D., Karthikeyani, R. & Muthuchelian, K. (2016). Social spiders (Araneae: Eresidae: Stegodyphus) in Tamil Nadu, India. International Journal of Applied Bioresearch 27: 4-6.

Canard, A. & Cruveillier, M. (2016). Rectifications nomenclaturales à apporter au catalogue mondial des araignées (1ère note). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 42-45.

Cao, Q., Li, S. Q. & Żabka, M. (2016). The jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 630: 43-104. doi:10.3897/zookeys.630.8466

Carrillo, J., Ramos da Silva, R. & Ferrández, M. Á. (2016). Nuevas citas de Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932 (Araneae: Thomisidae) de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 129-133.

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, 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

Chen, L., Zhao, Z. & Li, S. Q. (2016a). 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, L., Zhao, Z. & Li, S. Q. (2016b). Sinocoelotes gen. n., a new genus of the subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 614: 51-86. doi:10.3897/zookeys.614.8663

Chen, Z., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2016). First description of the male of Draconarius jiangyongensis (Peng et al., 1996) (Araneae, Agelenidae). ZooKeys 601: 41-48. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.8349

Cheng O., Y. L., Quintero A., D. & Díaz Q., D. D. (2016). Maeota serrapophysis (Chamberlin and Ivie 1936), Panamanian endemic: new combination for Freya serrapophysis and a new synonymy (Salticidae: Euophryinae). Scientia (Panamá) 25(2): 7-14.

Chomphuphuang, N., Deowanish, S., Songsangchote, C., Sivayyapram, V., Thongprem, P. & Warrit, N. (2016). The Mediterranean recluse spider Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) established in a natural cave in Thailand. Journal of Arachnology 44(2): 142-147. doi:10.1636/R15-61

Cifuentes, Y., Estrada-Gomez, S., Vargas-Muñoz, L. J. & Perafán, C. (2016). Description and molecular characterization of a new species of tarantula, Pamphobeteus verdolaga, from Colombia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(6, e20160113): 1-6. doi:10.1590/s1984-4689zool-20160113

Cisneros-Heredia, D. F. & Carrazco-Montalvo, I. (2016). First record of Bertrana striolata (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) in Amazonian Ecuador. Avances en Ciencias e Ingenierías 8(1): 48-50. doi:10.18272/aci.v8i1.790

Coşar, İ. & Varol, M. İ. (2016). Six new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Türkiye Entomoloji Dergisi – Turkish Journal of Entomology 40(2): 157-163. doi:10.16970/ted.25362

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Tarlabölen, R. (2016). A new crab spider record from Turkey (Araneae: Thomisidae). Serket 15(2): 104-106.

Danışman, 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

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

Dawidowicz, Ł. & Wesołowska, W. (2016). Jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Kenya collected by Åke Holm. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 66(3): 437-466. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2016.66.3.010

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

Déjean, S. & Danflous, S. (2016). Deux espèces d’araignées nouvelles pour la faune de France, découvertes en Aubrac (Aveyron, Midi-Pyrénées): Bathyphantes setiger F. O. P.-Cambridge, 1894 et Bolyphantes kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1936) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 16-20.

Déjean, S. (2016). Zodarion cesari Pekár et al., 2011 (Araneae, Zodariidae) espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France, découverte en Corse. Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 14-15.

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

Deltshev, C. (2016). A new spider species, Heser stoevi sp. nov., from Turkmenistan (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 4(e10095): 1-11. doi:10.3897/BDJ.4.e10095

Deltshev, C., Blagoev, G., Komnenov, M. & Lazarov, S. (2016). Description of Ozyptila balcanica sp. n. from the Balkan Peninsula and its comparison with the closely related O. umbraculorum Simon, 1932 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68(4): 483-490.

Demir, H. & Koçyiğit, H. O. (2016). Description of the hitherto unknown female of Xysticus tenuiapicalis Demir, 2012 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zoology in the Middle East 62(3): 277-278. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1226549

Demircan, N. & Topçu, A. (2016). First records for spider fauna of the European part of Turkey (Araneae). Serket 15(2): 85-91.

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

Dhali, D. C., Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016a). On the new sac spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae) of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 50: 278-305.

Dhali, D. C., Raychaudhuri, D. & Sureshan, P. M. (2016). Description of the unknown male of Strigoplus netravati Tikader, 1963 (Araneae: Thomisidae), with a key to the Indian species of the genus. Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 10: 26-33.

Dhali, D. C., Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016b). A new name for Clubiona serrata Dhali, Roy, Saha et Raychaudhuri, 2016 (Araneae: Clubionidae). World Scientific News 56: 263-266.

Dierkens, M. & Ramage, T. (2016). Deuxième contribution à la connaissance des araignées de Polynésie française. Bilan des espèces présentes et description de Theridion charlati n. sp. et Glenognatha ledouxi n. sp. Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 85(3-4): 134-172.

Dolanský, J., Machač, O. & Kadlec, T. (2016). Skálovka Hermanova Zelotes hermani (Chyzer, 1897) – nový druh v ČR. Pavouk 41: 4-5.

Dong, T. T., Zheng, G., Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2016a). Fifteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4136(2): 201-246. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4136.2.1

Dong, T. T., Zheng, G., Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2016b). Thirteen new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China. Zootaxa 4170(1): 1-40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4170.1.1

Dong, X. Y. & Zhang, F. (2016). One new species of the Clubiona trivialis-group (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Hebei Province, China. Acta Arachnologica 65(1): 7-10. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.7

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2016). Overview of the anyphaenids (Araneae, Anyphaeninae, Anyphaenidae) spider fauna from the Chocó forest of Ecuador, with the description of thirteen new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 255: 1-50. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.255

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

Dzulhelmi, M. N., Wong, C. X., Asraf, B., Faszly, R. & Norma-Rashid, Y. (2016). Spiders of Sabah: fifty new records including the description of a new Leucauge species. Biodiversitas 17(2): 799-807. doi:10.13057/biodiv/d170257

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

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016b). A note on Eresus albopictus Simon, 1873 (Araneae: Eresidae). Serket 15(2): 107-111.

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016c). Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) in Central India (Araneae: Eresidae), with notes on Indian Stegodyphus species. Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 28-35.

Estrada-Alvarez, J. C., Sánchez-Jasso, J. M. & Medina-Castro, J. P. (2016). Primer registro de Euagrus leones Coyle, 1988 (Araneae: Dipluridae) para el Estado de México. Dugesiana 23(1): 35-36.

Esyunin, S. L. & Sozontov, A. N. (2016). On a new Eurasian species of Dictyna Sundevall, 1833 (Aranei: Dictynidae), with taxonomic notes on poorly known Palaearctic Dictyna species. Arthropoda Selecta 25(2): 199-206. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.2.06

Faúndez, E. I. & Carvajal, M. A. (2016). The spider genus Steatoda Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the State of North Dakota (USA). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 83-85.

Faúndez, E. I. & Téllez, F. (2016). New records for Parasteatoda tepidariorum (C.L. Koch, 1841) (Araneae: Theridiidae) in southern Chile. Anales del Instituto de la Patagonia 43(3): 85-87. doi:10.4067/s0718-686x2016000300009

Fedoriak, M., Voloshyn, V. L. & Moscaliuc, L. A. (2016). Scientific heritage of Alexandru Roşca: publications, spider collection, described species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 85-91. doi:10.5431/aramit5113

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

Ferretti, N., Ochoa, J. A. & Chaparro, J. C. (2016). Una nueva especie de Acanthoscurria (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae) sin órgano estridulador, del sur de Perú. Revista Peruana de Biología 23(2): 89-94. doi:10.15381/rpb.v23i2.12375

Ferretti, N. & Pompozzi, G. (2016). Description of the male of Stenoterommata uruguai (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae) from northeastern Argentina, with notes on its natural history. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87(2): 527-530. doi:10.1016/j.rmb.2015.12.002

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. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.1.12

Fomichev, A. A. (2016b). New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from south-western Mongolia. Biological Bulletin of Bogdan Chmelnitskiy Melitopol State Pedagogical University 6(2): 101-106. doi:10.15421/201641

Framenau, V. W. & Baehr, B. C. (2016). Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus Tasmanicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4213: 1-82. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4213.1.1

Francisco, R. C., Ott, R. & Teixeira, R. A. (2016). A new species of the genus Apollophanes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1898 (Araneae: Philodromidae) with the first record to the Atlantic rainforest. Zootaxa 4171(1): 178-182. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4171.1.9

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. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.1.09

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.1.25

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

Fu, L., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, F. (2016). New Phrurolithus species from China (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 270-290.

Fu, L., Zhang, Z. S. & Zhang, F. (2016b). Description of two new Otacilia species from Anhui, China (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 62(2): 133-142. doi:10.17109/AZH.62.2.133.2016

Fu, Y. Q,, Xu, X. & Chen, J. (2016). First description on the male of Frontinella zhui (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(2): 70-74. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2016.02.002

Fujisawa, Y. (2016). Discovery of Tegecoelotes tateyamaensis in Nagano Prefecture: the spider described by Chikuni (1989), pp. 103 and 234, as Coelotes sp.. Kishidaia 109: 39-40.

Gabriel, R. (2016). Revised taxonomic placement of the species in the Central American genera Davus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1892, Metriopelma Becker, 1878, and Schizopelma F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897, with comments on species in related genera (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 17(2): 61-92. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.2.61

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. (2016a). 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.

Galvis, W. (2016b). Nuevas especies y registros de arañas saltarinas del género Chapoda Peckham & Peckham (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Euophryini) de Colombia, con la descripción de un nuevo sistema estridulatorio de C. panamana Chikering, 1946. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 51-57.

Galvis, W. & Martínez, L. (2016). First record of the jumping spider tribe Huriini Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae) from Colombia. Peckhamia 145.1: 1-6.

Galvis, W. & Moreno, J. S. (2016). A new jumping spider species of the genus Maeota (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini), with new faunistic data of the tribe from Colombia. Caldasia 38(2): 274-284. doi:10.15446/caldasia.v38n2.61091

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

Grismado, C. J. & Izquierdo, M. A. (2016). Una nueva especie del género Epicratinus Jocqué & Baert de Bolivia (Araneae: Zodariidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 18(1): 75-83. doi:10.22179/revmacn.18.445

Guadanucci, J. P. L., Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Baptista, R. L. C. & Pedroso, D. R. (2016). An unusual new species of Trechona (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae), from quartzitic caves of the Diamantina Plateau, Minas Gerais, Brazil, with a key to the known species. Journal of Natural History 50(39/40): 2487-2497. doi:10.1080/00222933.2016.1193652

Gunti, P., Srinivasulu, C. & Devender, G. (2016). New locality data for Stegodyphus tibialis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1869) (Araneae: Eresidae) from Telangana state, India. Check List 12(5, 1960): 1-3. doi:10.15560/12.5.1960

Guo, X., Yu, Z. G. & Chen, H. M. (2016). One new spider species of genus Leptonetela (Araneae: Leptonetidae) from cave in Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(3): 395-399. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20150274

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

Harrison, S. E., Rix, M. G., Harvey, M. S. & Austin, A. D. (2016). An African mygalomorph lineage in temperate Australia: the trapdoor spider genus Moggridgea (Araneae: Migidae) on Kangaroo Island, South Australia. Austral Entomology 55: 208-216. doi:10.1111/aen.12172

He, J. C., Liu, X. L. & Zhang, F. (2016). Two new species of Clubiona Latreille (Araneae: Clubionidae) from China. Zootaxa 4208(5): 494-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4208.5.7

Hollá, K., Šestáková, A., Holecová, M. & Šebestová, M. (2016). On the new record of the sheet-web spider Erigonoplus foveatus comb. nov. from Slovakia, with comments on Erigonoplus simplex (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 51: 80-84. doi:10.5431/aramit5112

Horahama, T. (2016). Spiders collected in Miyazaki and Kumamoto prefectures. Kishidaia 108: 49-50.

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. (2016a). 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

Huber, B. A., Koh, J. K. H., Ghazali, A. R. M., Braima, K. A., Nuñeza, O. M., Leh Moi Ung, C. & Petcharad, B. (2016b). New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 200: 1-45. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.200

Huber, B. A., Nuñeza, O. M. & Leh Moi Ung, C. (2016). The Philippine hair wax spiders and their relatives: revision of the Pholcus bicornutus species group (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 225: 1-34. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.225

Huber, B. A. (2016b). Spider diversity and endemism in a South American hotspot: 20 new species of Carapoia (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 4177(1): 1-69. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4177.1.1

IJland, S. & Helsdingen, P. J. van (2016). On some spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Basilicata and Calabria, Italy. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 25-44.

Indicatti, R. P. & Villarreal, E. (2016). Pseudonemesia tabiskey, a new species of Pseudonemesia Caporiacco 1955 and new ultramorphological data for the Microstigmatinae (Araneae: Microstigmatidae). Journal of Natural History 50(33/34): 2153-2167. doi:10.1080/00222933.2016.1196297

Iorio, E. & Herbrecht, F. (2016). Découverte d’une araignée thermophile remarquable dans le sud-est de l'Anjou: Aculepeira armida (Savigny in Audouin, 1825) (Araneae, Araneidae). Invertébrés Armoricains 14: 67-75.

Jacquot, M., Derepas, B. & Deguine, J.-P. (2016). Seven newly recorded species and families of spiders from Reunion Island (Malagasy region) (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 121(4): 421-430.

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

Jäger, P. (2016). A plea for taxonomic drawings and against pure photo-taxonomy. Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 61-66.

Jiang, X. K., Guo, X., Yu, Z. G. & Chen, H. M. (2016). A new species of the genus Storenomorpha Simon, 1884 from Guizhou, China (Araneae, Zodariidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(6): 913-916. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083-20160215

Jin, C., Fu, L., Yin, X. C. & Zhang, F. (2016). Four new species of the genus Otacilia Thorell, 1897 from Hunan Province, China (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). ZooKeys 620: 30-55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.620.7982

Kaderka, R. (2016a). 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

Kaderka, R. (2016b). Description of the male of Avicularia rickwesti Bertani & Huff, 2013, a remarkable species from the Dominican Republic (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Aviculariinae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 121-127.

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

Kananbala, A., Bhubaneshwari, M. & Sandhyarani, O. (2016). On the description of a salticid spider, Burmattus pococki Thorell 1895 (Araneae: Saltocidae) from Manipur, India. Journal of Global Biosciences 5(4): 3917-3920.

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016). Three new generic records and descriptions of four new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European Journal of Taxonomy 228: 1-23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.228

Kastrygina, Z. A. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2016a). The spider genus Rhysodromus Schick, 1965 in the Crimea (Aranei: Philodromidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 283-292. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.08

Kastrygina, Z. A., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Polchaninova, N. Y. (2016). A new species of the genus Pulchellodromus Wunderlich, 2012 (Aranei: Philodromidae) from Spain. Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 293-296. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.09

Kastrygina, Z. A. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2016b). Vicariance of two closely related spider species from genus Philodromus Walckenaer, 1826: P. albidus Kulczynski, 1911 and P. rufus Walckenaer, 1826 (Aranei, Philodromidae) in the Crimea. Scientific Notes of Crimean Federal V.I.Vernadsky University. Ser. biology, chemistry 2 (68)(1): 42-54.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, B. W. (2016a). One new species of genus Nesticus Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Nesticidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(1): 1-5.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Kim, B. W. (2016b). Redescription of Ozyptila scabricula (Westring, 1851) and two new record species of the genus Ozyptila, Xysticus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(1): 7-18.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2016a). First description of male Ero koreana Paik, 1967 (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(1): 19-22.

Kim, J. P. & Ye, S. H. (2016b). One new record species of genus Pardosa, description of Pardosa falcata Schenkel, 1963 from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 21-29.

Kim, J. P., Ye, S. H. & Jang, J. H. (2016). A newly recorded species and genus of Synageles (Araneae: Salticidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 31-36.

Kim, J. P. & Lee, H. M. (2016a). Redescription of female Plator nipponicus (Kishida, 1914) (Araneae: Trochanteriidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 37-40.

Kim, J. P. & Kim, T. W. (2016a). Redescription of Pholcus kwangkyosanensis Kim & Park, 2009 from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(1): 23-28.

Kim, J. P. & Lee, H. M. (2016b). A new species of the genus Nandicius Prozynski, 2016 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 1-5.

Kim, J. P., Lee, H. M. & Ji, S. H. (2016). A new species of the genus Neoscona Simon, 1864 (Araneae: Araneidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 7-11.

Kim, J. P. & Kim, T. W. (2016b). One new species of the genus Pholcus Walckenear, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidea) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 32(2): 13-20.

Kim, S. T., Lee, S. Y. & Yoo, J. S. (2016). Two newly recorded genera Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 and Mermessus O.P.-Cambridge, 1899 with descriptions of Gongylidioides kaihotsui Saito and Ono, 2001 and Mermessus naniwaensis (Oi, 1960) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 5(2): 201-205. doi:10.12651/jsr.2016.5.2.201

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

Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2016). Adatok a mintás álkaszáspók [Hoplopholcus forskali (Thorell, 1871)] és a nagy álkaszáspók [Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775)] biológiájához (Araneae: Pholcidae). A Nyme Savaria Egyetemi Központ Tudományos Közleményei XXI. Természettudományok 16: 171-190.

Kovblyuk, M. M., Gnelitsa, V. A., Nadolny, A. A., Kastrygina, Z. A. & Kukushkin, O. V. (2016). Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Karadag Nature Reserve (Crimea). Ekosistemy 3(for 2015): 3-288.

Krejčí, T. & Řezáč, M. (2016). Mravčík ohridský (Zodarion ohridense Wunderlich, 1973) (Araneae: Zodariidae) – novýdruh pro Českou republiku. Pavouk 41: 7-10.

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

Kuralt, Ž. & Kostanjšek, R. (2016). A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – III. Natura Sloveniae 18(2): 69-75.

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. (2016a). The first record of Shaitan (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) for Russia. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2016(1): 22-28.

Kuzmin, E. A. & Esyunin, S. L. (2016b). The dictynid spider fauna (Aranei) of Ulyanovsk Region (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 12(1): 29-34.

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.

Lecigne, S. (2016b). Clubiona frisia Wunderlich & Schuett, 1995 nouvelle espèce pour la France (Araneae, Clubionidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 2-5.

Lecigne, S. (2016c). Redécouverte de Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1758) (Araneae, Pisauridae) en région Nord - Pas-de-Calais (France), actualisation de sa distribution en France et aperçu de la situation en Europe. Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 28-41.

Lecigne, S. (2016d). Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236.

Ledoux, J.-C. (2016). Note sur la synonymie d’Harpactea haymozi Brignoli, 1979 et Harpactea hombergi (Scopoli, 1763) (Araneae, Dysderidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 27.

Lee, J. G., Lee, J. H. & Kim, S. K. (2016). Taxonomic notes on the genus Sinopoda (Araneae, Sparassidae), with descriptions of two new species from Korea. Animal Systematics, Evolution and Diversity 32(4): 281-292. doi:10.5635/ASED.2016.32.4.038

Lee, S. Y., Yoo, J. S. & Kim, S. T. (2016). Two newly recorded jumping spiders, Neon ningyo Ikeda, 1995 and Sibianor nigriculus (Logunov & Wesolowska, 1992) (Araneae: Salticidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 5(3): 601-604. doi:10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.601

Lehtinen, P. T. (2016). Significance of oriental taxa in phylogeny of crab spiders (Thomisidae s.lat. and Stiphropodidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 143-171.

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

Li, S. Q. (2016). Speleoticus yinchangminae, a name to replace Nesticus yaginumai (Araneae, Nesticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(2): 75. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2016.02.003

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

Lin, Y. C., Ballarin, F. & Li, S. Q. (2016). A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species. ZooKeys 627: 1-168. doi:10.3897/zookeys.627.8629

Lin, Y. J. & Zhu, G. X. (2016). A new species of the spider genus Plator (Trochanteriidae) from south China. Zootaxa 4162(1): 189-192. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4162.1.11

Lindecke, O. & Wall, M. (2016). A lobed Argiope spider on its most eastern distribution – first record of Argiope lobata (Pallas, 1772) for the subfamily Argiopinae (Arachnida: Araneidae) in Mongolia. Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei 13: 179-184.

Lissner, J. (2016b). A new synonym of Lathys heterophthalma Kulczyński, 1891 (Araneae: Dictynidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 395-398. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.07

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.1.39

Lissner, J. (2016a). Notes on the Majorcan Centromerus Dahl (Araneae, Linyphiidae) with the description of a new cave species (Balearic Islands, Spain). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 21-24.

Lissner, J. & Bosmans, R. (2016). Description of a new Gibbaranea (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Mediterranean. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 52: 25-30. doi:10.5431/aramit5205

Lissner, J., Bosmans, R. & Hernández-Corral, J. (2016). Description of a new ground spider from Majorca, Spain, with the establishment of a new genus Chatzakia n. gen. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arachnology 17(3): 142-146. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.3.142

Lissner, J., Jensen, J.-K., Hansen, L. J., Simonsen, W., Kelduni, R. & Nissen, K. (2016). An updated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Faroe Islands. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63(2): 197-240.

Lissner, J. (2016c). A small study of the Corsican spider and pseudoscorpion fauna (Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones). Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 5-15.

Lissner, J. & Chatzaki, M. (2016c). First records of Poecilochroa taborensis Levy, 1999 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Greece and Cyprus with notes on some closely related species. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 36: 16-21.

Lissner, J. (2016d). A new Ero (Araneae: Mimetidae) from caves and Mesovoid Shallow Substratum in Majorca, Spain. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 3-7.

Lissner, J. (2016e). A new cave Palliduphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Majorca (Spain). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 29: 51-55.

Liu, K., Xiao, Y. H. & Xu, X. (2016). On three new Orchestina species (Araneae: Oonopidae) described from China. Zootaxa 4121(4): 431-446. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4121.4.4

Liu, P., Peng, X. J. & Yan, H. M. (2016). Five new species of the Clubiona corticalis species group (Araneae, Clubionidae) from China. Zootaxa 4184(3): 561-575. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4184.3.10

Liu, W., Yang, S. F. & Peng, X. J. (2016). Two new species of Yaginumaella, Prószyński 1976 from Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 620: 57-66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.620.7895

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.

Lu, T., Wang, L. Y., Hadole, P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2016). Redescription of four wolf-spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 130-142.

Luong, P. T. H., Yamasaki, T. & Eguchi, K. (2016). Conspecificity of Phintella aequipeiformis Zabka, 1985 and P. lucai Zabka, 1985 (Araneae: Salticidae) confirmed by DNA barcoding. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 123(2): 283-290. doi:10.5281/zenodo.155301

Ma, S. C., Marusik, Y. M. & Tu, L. H. (2016). A review of the Nearctic linyphiid spider Arcuphantes fragilis (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and closely related species. Zootaxa 4144(3): 383-396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4144.3.6

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Zhang, J. X. & Szűts, 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

Maddison, W. P. (2016a). Sumakuru, a deeply-diverging new genus of lyssomanine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae). ZooKeys 614: 87-96. doi:10.3897/zookeys.614.9368

Maddison, W. P. & Maddison, D. R. (2016). Two new jumping spider species of the Habronattus clypeatus group (Araneae, Salticidae, Harmochirina). ZooKeys 625: 1-10. doi:10.3897/zookeys.625.9891

Maddison, W. P. (2016b). Papuaneon, a new genus of jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Salticidae: Neonini). Zootaxa 4200(3): 437-443. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4200.3.9

Magalhaes, I. L. F. (2016). On new or poorly known Australian Filistatidae spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae), including a study on the fine morphology of Wandella. Journal of Natural History 50(29-30): 1815-1568. doi:10.1080/00222933.2016.1181805

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Fernandes, L. R., Ramírez, M. J. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2016). Phylogenetic position and taxonomic review of the Ianduba spiders (Araneae: Corinnidae) endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 74(2): 127-159 & Supplements.

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

Malik, S., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2016b). First report of cobweb spider Phycosoma altum (Keyserling, 1886) from Asia. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(5): 1094-1095.

Mammola, S., Hormiga, G., Arnedo, M. A. & Isaia, M. (2016). Unexpected diversity in the relictual European spiders of the genus Pimoa (Araneae : Pimoidae). Invertebrate Systematics 30(6): 566-587. doi:10.1071/IS16017

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2016a). Two new Bifurcia species (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae) from Far East Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 77-83. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.1.08

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.1.10

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

Marusik, Y. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2016a). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 7. Review of the Parasyrisca vinosa-group. Biological Bulletin of Bogdan Chmelnitskiy Melitopol State Pedagogical University 6(2): 110-118. doi:10.15421/201643

Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. (2016). New species of Sahastata (Aranei, Filistatidae) from southern Iran. Vestnik Zoologii 50(3): 267-270. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2016-0031

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2016b). Rare and new for the fauna of the Russian Far East spiders (Aranei). Far Eastern Entomologist 317: 1-15.

Marusik, Y. M. & Azarkina, G. N. (2016). Redescription of the poorly known crab spider Xysticus spasskyi (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4161(4): 561-566. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4161.4.7

Marusik, Y. M. (2016). Redescription of the male of Pterotricha strandi (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) with special emphasis on the structure of the palp. Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 279-282. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.07

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2016b). Redescription of two Ctenidae (Araneae) from Taiwan. Zootaxa 4173(2): 155-162. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4173.2.6

Marusik, Y. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2016b). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 5. On Synaphosus from Central Asia. Zootaxa 4178(3): 428-442. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.7

Marusik, Y. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2016c). A new species of Cheiracanthium (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) from Mongolia. Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 79-83.

Marusik, Y. M., Fomichev, A. A. & Tuneva, T. K. (2016). Redescription of Asagena semideserta (Ponomarev, 2005) comb. n. (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68(4): 477-482.

Marusik, Y. M., Fomichev, A. A. & Koponen, S. (2016). Redescription and new data on the distribution of a poorly known pirate spider Ermetus inopinabilis (Aranei: Mimetidae). Biological Bulletin of Bogdan Chmelnitskiy Melitopol State Pedagogical University 6(3): 359-364. doi:10.15421/2016105

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

Mazzoleni, F., Pantini, P., Pedrotti, L. & Gobbi, M. (2016). Zora alpina Kulczyński, 1915 (Araneae: Miturgidae): description of the male, redescription of the female. Zootaxa 4139(3): 445-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4139.3.12

Melic, A., Silva, A., Patanita, M. I., Santos, S. A. P., Benhadi-Marín, J. & Barrientos, J. A. (2016). Three new species of Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) collected in Iberian Peninsula. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 28: 107-113.

Mendoza, J. I., Locht, A., Kaderka, R., Medina, F. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2016). A new genus of Theraphosid spider from Mexico, with a particular palpal bulb structure (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 232: 1-28. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.232

Mi, X. Q. & Peng, X. J. (2016). A new species of the genus Araniella Chamberlin & Ivie, 1942 (Araneae: Araneidae) from south-west China. Oriental Insects 50(1): 34-39. doi:10.1080/00305316.2016.1139516

Mi, X. Q. & Wang, C. (2016a). A new species of Irura Peckham & Peckham, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(3): 400-403. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20160008

Mi, X. Q. & Wang, C. (2016b). First description on the female of Eriovixia huwena and the male of E. poonaensis (Araneae, Araneidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 35(5): 728-733. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20160107

Mi, X. Q., Wang, C. & Peng, X. J. (2016). Two new species of the orb-weaver genus Chorizopes from Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneidae). ZooKeys 626: 45-55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.626.7485

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

Mikhailov, K. G. (2016b). On the synonymy of Micaria modesta (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Vestnik Zoologii 49(6): 567-568. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2015-0067

Mirshamsi, O., Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A survey of Hersiliidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iran with description of one new genus and two new species. Journal of Natural History 50(23-24): 1447-1461. doi:10.1080/00222933.2015.1113318

Mirza, Z. A., Zende, J. Y. & Patil, V. K. (2016). Notes on the trapdoor spider genus Tigidia Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) with description of a new species from Western Ghats, India. Arachnology 17(2): 92-94. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.2.92

Montes de Oca, L., D'Elía, G. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2016). An integrative approach for species delimitation in the spider genus Grammostola (Theraphosidae, Mygalomorphae). Zoologica Scripta 45(3): 322-333. doi:10.1111/zsc.12152

Moradi, M., Yağmur, E. A., Moradi Ghrakhloo, P. & Zamani, A. (2016). First record of Filistata lehtineni Marusik & Zonstein, 2014 for the fauna of Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae). Biharean Biologist 10(1): 53-54.

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

Morano, E. & Bonal, R. (2016). Cheiracanthium ilicis sp. n. (Araneae, Eutichuridae), a novel spider species associated with Holm Oaks (Quercus ilex). ZooKeys 601: 21-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.8241

Mori, A. & Bertani, R. (2016). On the genus Cosmopelma Simon, 1889 (Araneae, Barychelidae). Zootaxa 4137(4): 520-534. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4137.4.4

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

Mu, Y., Liu, J. & Chen, J. (2016). First description on the male of Moneta subspinigera from Wuling Mountain, China (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(1): 33-36. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2016.01.008

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

Nadolny, A. A. (2016). The first record of Zoropsis spinimana (Aranei, Zoropsidae) in the Crimea. Zoology and Ecology 26(2): 127-128. doi:10.1080/21658005.2016.1150623

Nakayama, T., Baba, Y. G. & Toyama, H. (2016). Records of Oecobius cellariorum and O. navus in the northern Kanto region, Japan. Kishidaia 108: 19-22.

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

Naumova, M., Hristovski, S. & Hristov, G. H. (2016). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68(4): 503-511.

Nekhaeva, A. A. (2016). On the spider fauna (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Pasvik Nature Reserve (Kola Peninsula, Russia). Norwegian Journal of Entomology 63: 58-64.

Nunn, S. C., West, R. C. & Wirth, V. von (2016). A revision of the selenocosmiine tarantula genus Phlogiellus Pocock 1897 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with description of 4 new species. International Journal of Zoology 2016(9895234): 1-54. doi:10.1155/2016/9895234

Nuruyeva, T. V. & Huseynov, E. F. (2016). A new species of ground spiders of the genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 25(2): 213-216. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.2.08

Oger, P. & Picard, J. (2016). Découverte en France d’Euryopis saukea Levi, 1951 (Araneae, Theridiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 9-10.

Oger, P. & Gros, P. (2016). Découverte en France de Coscinida tibialis Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Theridiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 11-13.

Okumura, K.-I., Noine, M. & Ohba, S.-Y. (2016). New synonymy of the species group of Coelotes unicatus Yaginuma 1977, with first description of the male of Coelotes sanoi Nishikawa 2009 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Shikoku District, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 65(2): 71-76. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.71

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. doi:10.13156/arac.2006.17.1.47

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

Ortiz, D. & Francke, O. F. (2016). Two DNA barcodes and morphology for multi-method species delimitation in Bonnetina tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 101: 176-193. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2016.05.003

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.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2016c). Seven new peacock spiders from Western Australia and South Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus). Peckhamia 141.1: 1-101.

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

Özkütük, R. S., Marusik, Y. M., Elverici, M. & Kunt, K. B. (2016). A new species of Lathys from Turkey (Araneae, Dictynidae). ZooKeys 632: 35-45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.632.10130

Pan, F., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China. Zoological Systematics 41(4): 404-414. doi:10.11865/zs.201645

Pantini, P., Isaia, M., Mazzoleni, F. & Oneto, C. (2016). Nuovi dati sui ragni di Lombardia (Arachnida, Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 29: 21-44.

Patil, V. K. & Uniyal, V. P. (2016). Redescription of male and range extension of Araneus viridisomus Gravely, 1921 (Araneae: Araneidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 172-175.

Patoleta, B. M. (2016). Revision of the genus Rhondes Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Caledonia. Insect Systematics & Evolution 47(1): 15-31. doi:10.1163/1876312X-46052131

Paul, J., Sankaran, P. M., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016). The male of the orb-weaving spider Plebs mitratus (Simon, 1895) and a redescription of the female (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4179(1): 103-106. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4179.1.4

Pedroso, D. R., Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2016). Redescription and synonymies of Diplura macrura (C.L. Koch, 1841) and D. lineata (Lucas, 1857), with notes on the genus (Araneae, Dipluridae). European Journal of Taxonomy 210: 1-21. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.210

Perafán, C., Galvis, W., Gutiérrez, M. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2016). Kankuamo, a new theraphosid genus from Colombia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with a new type of urticating setae and divergent male genitalia. ZooKeys 601: 89-109. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.7704

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

Pérez-Zarcos, L. & Sánchez-Piñero, F. (2016). Diet of the ladybird spider Eresus kollari (Araneae: Eresidae) in an arid system of southeastern Spain. Journal of Arachnology 44(3): 359-366. doi:10.1636/P15-74.1

Phartale, N. N., Kadam, J. A. & Gyananath, G. (2016). First report of Geolycosa charitonovi (Mcheidze, 1997) (Araneae: Lycosidae) from India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 4(5): 937-939.

Pinto, E. C. & Rheims, C. A. (2016). A new genus of Neotropical spiders of the family Sparassidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(6, e20160160): 1-15. doi:10.1590/s1984-4689zool-20160160

Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. (2016). Description of a new species of the Afrotropical spider genus Afroneutria (Araneae, Ctenidae). Zootaxa 4205(4): 395-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.8

Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V., Ivliev, P. P. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2016). Spiders (Aranei) of the coast of Taganrog Bay (the Sea of Azov) and the Don River delta. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 12(1): 3-28.

Prajapati, D. A., Murthappa, P. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016a). 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

Prajapati, D. A., Murthappa, P. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2016b). Two new species of Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina). Zootaxa 4171(2): 321-334. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4171.2.5

Prajapati, D. A., Patel, K. R., Munjpara, S. B., Chettiar, S. S. & Jhala, D. D. (2016c). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Gujarat University Campus, Ahmedabad, India with additional description of Eilica tikaderi (Platnick, 1976). Journal of Threatened Taxa 8(11): 9327-9333. doi:10.11609/jott.1835.8.11.9327-9333

Prete, P. H., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A. D. (2016). A new species of the spider genus Baalzebub (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 51(2): 97-103. doi:10.1080/01650521.2016.1183965

Prószyński, J. (2016). Delimitation and description of 19 new genera, a subgenus and a species of Salticidae (Araneae) of the world. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 4-32.

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. doi:10.22179/revmacn.17.425

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016a). A review of Sri Lankan Brignolia including the description of four new species (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 4144(4): 451-476. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4144.4.1

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016b). The goblin spider genus Xestaspis in Sri Lanka (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 4189(1): 60-80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.1.2

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2016c). New records of Pelicinus and Xyphinus from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Oonopidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 71-78.

Řezáč, M., Řezáčová, V. & Heneberg, P. (2016). Enoplognatha bryjai new species, a bizzare cobweb spider of the Pannonian swamps (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4147(1): 92-96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.1.8

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

Richard, M, Graber, W. & Kropf, C. (2016). The goblin spider genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Java and Sumatra. Zootaxa 4151(1): 1-99. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4151.1.1

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

Ríos-Tamayo, D. (2016). A new species of Actinopus (Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae) from Bolivia. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 18(2): 185-189. doi:10.22179/revmacn.18.444

Rodrigues, E. N. L., Buckup, E. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2016). New species, new records, and a key to the Brazilian species of Gelanor (Araneae: Mimetidae). Zoologia (Curitiba) 33(4, e20160034): 1-14. doi:10.1590/S1984-4689zool-20160034

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2016). A treatise on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of tea ecosystem of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 53(1): 1-66.

Rozwałka, R., Rutkowski, T., Sienkiewicz, P. & Zawal, A. (2016a). Zelotes erebeus (Thorell, 1871) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Poland and its distribution in Europe. Entomologica Fennica 27(1): 1-7.

Rozwałka, R., Rutkowski, T., Sienkiewicz, P. & Renn, K. (2016b). Occurrence of Talavera aperta (Miller, 1971) (Araneae: Salticidae) in Poland. Biological Letters 52(1-2, 2015): 3-9. doi:10.1515/biolet-2015-0010

Rozwałka, R., Rutkowski, T., Staręga, W. & Sienkiewicz, P. (2016c). Occurrence of Thanatus atratus Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Poland. Biological Letters 52(1-2, 2015): 11-17. doi:10.1515/biolet-2015-0011

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

Rubio, G. D. & Baigorria, J. E. (2016). New species and the first known male of the jumping spider Ceriomura Simon (Araneae: Salticidae: Gophoini) with the faunistic revision of gophoines from Misiones, Argentina. Zoology and Ecology 26(4): 265-274. doi:10.1080/21658005.2016.1199502

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Sobrinho, A. T. (2016). Three new species and redescription of the type species of Soesilarishius Makhan, 2007 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4196(2): 250-260. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4196.2.4

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Bustamante, A. A. (2016). Edwardsya, a new genus of jumping spiders from South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina). Zootaxa 4184(1): 117-129. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4184.1.7

Russell-Smith, A. (2016a). Identification of Drassodes cupreus and D. lapidosus. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 135: 21-22.

Russell-Smith, A. (2016b). Identification of Xysticus cristatus and Xysticus audax. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 135: 23-24.

Russell-Smith, A. (2016c). Identification of females of British Oedothorax species. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 137: 22-24.

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

Růžička, V. (2016). Erigone cristatopalpus Simon, 1884. Pavouk 41: 5-7.

Sadeghi, H., Ahmadi, M., Zamani, A. & Jabaleh, I. (2016). A study on the spider fauna of Dargaz and Kalat Counties in Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae). Biharean Biologist 10(1): 4-7.

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

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2016). First record of Parasteatoda celsabdomina (Zhu, 1998) (Aranaea [sic]: Theridiidae) from India. Species 17(57): 187-191.

Seo, B. K. (2016a). Seven new species of the genus Cybaeus (Araneae, Cybaeidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 5(3): 571-583. doi:10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.571

Seo, B. K. (2016b). Four new species of the genus Longileptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 5(3): 584-589. doi:10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.584

Seo, B. K. (2016c). Four new species of the genus Falcileptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 5(3): 590-595. doi:10.12651/JSR.2016.5.3.590

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

Seyyar, O., Harmanşah, İ., Türkeş, T. & Demir, H. (2016b). A further study on Textrix denticulata (Olivier, 1789) from Turkey (Araneae: Agelenidae). Serket 15(2): 80-84.

Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Najim, S. A. (2016). A new spider record of the genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Iraq. Biological Diversity and Conservation 9(2): 221-223.

Silva-Moreira, T. da & Machado, M. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the crab spider genus Epicadus Simon, 1895 (Arachnida: Araneae: Thomisidae) with notes on related genera of Stephanopinae Simon, 1895. Zootaxa 4147(3): 281-310. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4147.3.4

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

Sirvid, P. J. & Fitzgerald, B. M. (2016). Coleosoma octomaculatum (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Araneae: Theridiidae): redescription, first records from New Zealand and notes on the genus Coleosoma O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 43(1): 54-64. doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1116098

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

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Simmons, Z. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2016). On the type species of the genus Aetius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896: the first description of male with notes on cymbial notch and mating plug (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4154(4): 489-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4154.4.9

Suguro, T. (2016a). A new Chinattus species (Araneae: Salticidae) from Amami-Ôshima Island, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 65(2): 77-80. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.77

Suguro, T. (2016b). The first description of the female of Onomastus kanoi Ono 1995 (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 65(2): 81-82. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.81

Tanasevitch, A. V., Ponomarev, A. V. & Chumachenko, Y. A. (2016b). Two new species of the subfamily Erigoninae from the Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 423-426. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.11

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2016a). A new Agyneta Hull, 1911 from northern Yakutia, Russia (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(1): 75-76. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.1.07

Tanasevitch, A. V., Ponomarev, A. V. & Chumachenko, Y. A. (2016a). A new species of Tenuiphantes Saaristo et Tanasevitch, 1996 (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from Adygea, the Caucasus, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 25(2): 217-218. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.2.09

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2016b). New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from Israel (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 297-306. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.10

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Nekhaeva, A. A. (2016). Spiders (Aranei) of the Kharaulakh Mountains and the Lena River lower reaches, northern Yakutia, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 25(3): 307-326. [& 25(4): 380 errata] doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.3.11

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2016c). A case of disjunct montane linyphiid species (Araneae) in the Palaeotropics, with notes on synonymy and the description of a new species. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 123(2): 235-240. doi:10.5281/zenodo.155168

Taucare-Ríos, A., Mardones, D. & Zúñiga-Reinoso, Á. (2016). Steatoda nobilis (Araneae: Theridiidae) in South America: a new alien species for Chile. The Canadian Entomologist 148: 479-481. doi:10.4039/tce.2015.83

Thumar, R. H., Dholakia, A. H. & Ade, P. P. (2016). Indian spiders of the genus Ordgarius (Araneae: Araneidae). Global Journal for Research Analysis 5(9): 223-226.

Tong, X. J., Wang, R. & Tong, Y. F. (2016). First discoveries of the females of two oonopid spider species from Singapore (Arachnida, Araneae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(1): 26-32. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2016.01.007

Tong, Y. F., Koh, J. K. H., Tong, X. J. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Five new species of the genus Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893 from Singapore. ZooKeys 618: 39-66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.618.9451

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

Trębicki, Ł., Patoleta, B. M. & Gardzińska, J. (2016). Redescription of four species of Cytaea Keyserling, 1882 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4189(2): 378-386. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4189.2.11

Tuneva, T. K. & Kuzmin, E. A. (2016). A new species of the genus Civizelotes Senglet, 2012 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the Lower Volga Region. Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 399-401. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.08

Valdez-Mondragón, A. & Cortez-Roldán, M. R. (2016). On the trapdoor spiders of Mexico: description of the first new species of the spider genus Aptostichus from Mexico and the description of the female of Eucteniza zapatista (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Euctenizidae). ZooKeys 641: 81-102. doi:10.3897/zookeys.641.10521

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.

Varol, M. İ. & Akpınar, A. (2016). Two new spider species of the family Dysderidae (Araneae) from Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East 62(2): 171-176. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1173924

Vidal, E., Jacquet, C., Derepas, B. & Oger, P. (2016). Découverte en France de Neriene hammeni (van Helsdingen, 1963) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 3: 6-8.

Wang, C., Mi, X. Q. & Peng, X. J. (2016). A new species of Pharta Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from China. Oriental Insects 50(3): 129-134. doi:10.1080/00305316.2016.1197163

Wang, C. X. & Li, S. Q. (2016). Four new species of the spider genus Pinelema (Araneae, Telemidae) from caves in south China. Ecologica Montenegrina 7: 546-566.

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

Yalçın, E., Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2016). A new record for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae Salticidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 5: 84-85.

Yamasaki, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T., Hyodo, F. & Itioka, T. (2016). A new species of the genus Castoponera (Araneae, Corinnidae) from Sarawak, Borneo, with comparison to a related species. ZooKeys 596: 13-25. doi:10.3897/zookeys.596.8525

Yao, Z. Y., Dong, T. T., Zheng, G., Fu, Y. Z. & Li, S. Q. (2016). High endemism at cave entrances: a case study of spiders of the genus Uthina. Scientific Reports 6(35757): 1-9, I-LII. doi:10.1038/srep35757

Yoshida, H. (2016). Parasteatoda, Campanicola, Cryptachaea and two new genera (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the Yamagata Prefectural Museum 34: 13-30.

Yoshida, H. & Ogata, K. (2016). A new species of the newly recorded genus Tekellina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 65(1): 15-18. doi:10.2476/asjaa.65.15

Żabka, M. & Patoleta, B. M. (2016). New species of Jacksonoides Wanless, 1988 from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida), with a re-definition of the genus. New Zealand Journal of Zoology 43(1): 10-41. doi:10.1080/03014223.2015.1070883

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. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.1.10

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Berry, J. W. (2016). A new species of Paratheuma (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Southwestern Asia and transfer of the genus. Zoology in the Middle East 62(2): 177-183. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1173927

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A new species and new distribution records of Zaitunia from Iran (Araneae: Filistatidae). Zoology in the Middle East 62(4): 373-376. doi:10.1080/09397140.2016.1250712

Zamani, A. (2016a). A new species of Spariolenus from South Iran (Aranei: Sparassidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 421-422. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.10

Zamani, A. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2016). Preliminiary list of the spiders of Iraq (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 6: 12-20.

Zamani, A. (2016b). [The field guide of spiders and scorpions of Iran]. Iranshenasi, Tehran, 360 pp. [in Persian] [only relevant pages are included in the PDF]

Zeng, C., Wang, C. & Peng, X. J. (2016). Three spider species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae, Mimetidae) from China. ZooKeys 626: 125-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.626.7918

Zhang, B. S., Zhang, F. & Liu, J. Z. (2016). Three new spider species of the genus Pholcus from the Taihang Mountains of China (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 600: 53-74. doi:10.3897/zookeys.600.7924

Zhang, F. & Jin, C. (2016). First description of the male of Theridion obscuratum Zhu, 1998 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Hebei University, Natural Science Edition 36(3): 620-622. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2016.06.009

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

Zhang, X. Q., Zhao, Z., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2016a). Nine new species of the spider genus Pireneitega Kishida, 1955 (Agelenidae, Coelotinae) from Xinjiang, China. ZooKeys 601: 49-74. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.7893

Zhang, X. Q., Zhao, Z., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2016b). A further study of the spider genus Notiocoelotes (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Hainan Island, China. ZooKeys 601: 75-87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.601.7698

Zhang, X. Q. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016). A survey of Pireneitega from Tajikistan (Agelenidae, Coelotinae). ZooKeys 635: 89-107. doi:10.3897/zookeys.635.10487

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. 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

Zhou, J. Y. & Chen, J. (2016). A new species of the spider genus Draconarius from Wuling Mountains, China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 25(2): 65-69. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2016.02.001

Zonstein, S. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016a). A revision of the spider genus Zaitunia (Araneae, Filistatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 214: 1-97. doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.214

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

Zonstein, S. L. (2016a). New data on the spider genus Pionothele (Araneae: Nemesiidae), with description of a new species from South Africa. Israel Journal of Entomology 46: 31-42.

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2016b). Redescription of the type species of Diaphorocellus Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Chediminae). African Invertebrates 57(2): 93-103. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.57.9988

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2016b). A review of the spider genus Atmetochilus of Sumatra, Indonesia, with first analysis of male characters and description of three new species (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Zoological Studies 55(10): 1-17. doi:10.6620/ZS.2016.55-10

Zonstein, S. L. (2016b). A redescription and synonymy of North African mygalomorph Iberesia barbara (Lucas, 1846), comb.n. (Aranei: Nemesiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 25(4): 385-393. doi:10.15298/arthsel.25.4.06

2017

Aharon, S., Huber, B. A. & Gavish-Regev, E. (2017). Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 376: 1-57. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.376

Ahmed, J., Khalap, R., Hill, D. E., Sumukha, J. N. & Mohan, K. (2017). First record of Brettus cingulatus from India, with a review of Brettus in South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae). Peckhamia 151.1: 1-13.

Akash, M., Jahan, N. & Badhon, M. K. (2017). Occurrence of a huntsman spider Olios lamarcki Latreille, 1806 (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Sparassidae) from Nijhum dwip, Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 45(1): 97-100. doi:10.3329/bjz.v45i1.34199

Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R. (2017). Order Araneae, family Lycosidae. Arthropod fauna of the UAE 6: 3-20.

Baba, Y. G., Ohno, S., Rie, U.-H. & Tanikawa, A. (2017). A new record of the wall spider, Oecobius marathaus (Araneae: Oecobiidae), from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 17-18. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.17

Baba, Y. G. & Tanikawa, A. (2017). A new species of the genus Anyphaena (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 31-33. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.31

Baba, Y. G., Katayama, N. & Tanikawa, A. (2017). New records of the pirate spider Ero aphana (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Japan. Fauna Ryukyuana 34: 11-14.

Baehr, B. C. & Jocqué, R. (2017). The new endemic Australian genus Nosterella and a review of Nostera (Araneae: Zodariidae), including eight new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 60: 53-76. doi:10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2016.2016-14

Baehr, B. C., Harms, D., Dupérré, N. & Raven, R. (2017). The Australian lynx spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species. Evolutionary Systematics 1: 11-37. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.14652

Baehr, B. C., Raven, R. & Harms, D. (2017). “High Tide or Low Tide”: Desis bobmarleyi sp. n., a new spider from coral reefs in Australia’s Sunshine State and its relative from Sāmoa (Araneae, Desidae, Desis). Evolutionary Systematics 1: 111-120. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.15735

Ballarin, F. & Pantini, P. (2017). A new species of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Apennine Mountains (Italy) with the description of the male of A. pavesii Pesarini, 1991. Zootaxa 4276(4): 479-502. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.2

Bao, M. D., Bai, Z. S. & Tu, L. H. (2017). On a desmitracheate “micronetine” Nippononeta alpina (Li & Zhu, 1993), comb. n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 645: 133-146. doi:10.3897/zookeys.645.10685

Barrientos, J. A., Moya, J., García-Sarrión, R., Uribarri, I., Melic, A., Prieto, C. E., Moraza, M. L. & Zaragoza, J. A. (2017). Arácnidos del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 107-138.

Barrientos, J. A. & Febrer, B. (2017). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). Nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 8-24.

Barrion, A. T. & He, J. C. (2017). A new species of Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1880 (Araneae: Theridiidae: Episininae) from Zhejiang Province, China. Philippine Entomologist 30(2, for 2016): 141-148. [publ. in Febr. 2017]

Basu, D., Roy, T. K. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Neoscona Simon, 1864, the 'true orb weavers' in ricelands of Gangetic Delta, South 24-Parganas, West Bengal, India. Species 18(59): 62-76.

Bauer, T. & Höfer, H. (2017). Erstnachweis von Oxyopes lineatus in Deutschland und faunistisch-taxonomische Anmerkungen zu weiteren besonderen Arten aus Baden-Württemberg (Araneae: Lycosidae, Oxyopidae, Salticidae, Thomisidae, Trachelidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 29-37. doi:10.5431/aramit5305

Bayer, S., Foelix, R. & Alderweireldt, M. (2017). An unusual new wolf spider species from the Erg Chebbi Desert in Morocco (Araneae: Lycosidae: Evippinae). Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 344-355. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-16-094.1

Benavides, L. R., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2017). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of "pirate spiders" (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of a new African genus and the first report of maternal care in the family. Cladistics 33(4): 375-405. doi:10.1111/cla.12174

Benjamin, S. P. (2017a). Distributional and taxonomic notes on the crab spider genus Epidius with descriptions of five new species (Araneae: Thomisidae). Journal of Natural History 51(9-10): 469-485. doi:10.1080/00222933.2017.1302016

Benjamin, S. P. (2017b). A new species of Angaeus from Malaysia with possible affinity to related genera within Stephanopinae (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4337(2): 297-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4337.2.10

Berry, J. W. & Williams, A. (2017). The status of Argiope trifasciata kauaiensis (Araneae: Araneidae) on Kaua‘i, Hawai‘i. Bishop Museum Occasional Papers 119: 9-13.

Bertani, R., Mori, A. & Fukushima, C. S. (2017). Spiders of the São Paulo state islands, Brazil: redescription of Stenoterommata crassimana (Mello-Leitão, 1923) n. comb. (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Zootaxa 4363(2): 237-248. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4363.2.4

Biswas, V. (2017). A new species of the genus Hasarius Simon from Bangladesh (Araneae: Salticidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 12(1): 50-53.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017a). A new record of the orb-weaving spider genus Parawixia F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1904 from Bangladesh (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15(3): 113-118.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017b). New species of the genus Camaricus Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 44(2, 2016): 255-265. doi:10.3329/bjz.v44i2.32765

Blick, T. & Gloor, D. (2017). Peucetia casseli Simon, 1900 has priority over P. longipes Pocock, 1900 (Araneae, Oxyopidae). Zootaxa 4237(3): 574. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4237.3.7

Blick, T. (2017). Zelotes wunderlichi, a replacement name for the preoccupied ground spider Zelotes turcicus Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4341(3): 419. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.5

Bodkhe, A., Uniyal, V., Kamble, S., Manthen, S., Santape, G. & Chikhale, M. (2017). A new species, Pandava aruni (Araneae: Titanoecidae) from Lonar Crater Sanctuary, India. Serket 15(3): 119-123.

Bosmans, R., Lissner, J. & Hernández-Corral, J. (2017). The spider family Dysderidae in the Balearic Islands. Zootaxa 4329(4): 375-391. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.4

Bosmans, R., Henrard, A., Benhalima, S. & Kherbouche-Abrous, O. (2017). The genus Clubiona Latreille, 1904 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in the Maghreb, with notes on the genevensis group and new records from the Mediterranean Region. Zootaxa 4353(1): 1-28. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.1.1

Bosselaers, J. (2017). A new species of Oonops Templeton, 1835, (Araneae: Oonopidae) from the Gavarres, Baix Empordà, Catalonia. Arachnology 17(4): 195-200. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.4.195

Breitling, R. (2017). Public DNA barcoding data resolve the status of the genus Arboricaria (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 24-27 & Supplements 1-4. doi:10.5431/aramit5405

Brescovit, A. D., Taucare-Ríos, A., Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Santos, A. J. (2017). On Chilean Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae): first description of the males of L. surca and L. coquimbo, new records of L. laeta and three remarkable new species from coastal deserts. European Journal of Taxonomy 388: 1-20. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.388

Bustamante, A. A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2017). Systematics of Thiodinini (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae), with description of a new genus and twelve new species. Zootaxa 4362(3): 301-347. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.1

Cala-Riquelme, F., Gutiérrez-Estrada, M. A., Flórez-Daza, E. & Agnarsson, I. (2017). A new six-eyed sand spider Sicarius Walckenaer, 1847 (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from Colombia, with information on its natural history. Arachnology 17(4): 176-182. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.4.176

Cala-Riquelme, F. (2017). A new species of Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Salticidae: Marpissoida) from Cuba. Arachnology 17(5): 248-253. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.248

Caleb, J. T. D., Pravalikha, G. B., Johnson, B. E., Manyu, M., Mungkung, S. & Mathai, M. T. (2017a). Hersilia aadi Pravalikha, Srinivasulu & Srinivasulu, 2014 a junior synonym of Hersilia savignyi Lucas, 1836 (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Zootaxa 4254(3): 396-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4254.3.11

Caleb, J. T. D., Prajapati, D. A., Rameshwar Maheshwari, N. & Sanap, R. V. (2017b). Redescription and synonymy of Stenaelurillus arambagensis (Biswas et Biswas, 1992) comb. n. (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 119-123. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.04

Caleb, J. T. D. & Sanap, R. V. (2017). Rediscovery of Piranthus decorus Thorell 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae) after 122 years since the original description. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 25-29. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.25

Caleb, J. T. D. & Benjamin, S. P. (2017). On the type of Myrmarachne uniseriata Narayan, 1915 (Araneae: Salticidae), with notes on its synonymy. Arachnology 17(6): 294-296. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.294

Caleb, J. T. D. (2017). Jumping spiders of the genus Icius Simon, 1876 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India, with a description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 323-327. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.07

Caleb, J. T. D., Chatterjee, S., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. (2017c). Two new jumping spiders of the genera Epocilla Thorell, 1887 and Mogrus Simon, 1882 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 329-334. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.08

Candia-Ramírez, D. T. & Francke, O. F. (2017). Taxonomic revision of the genus Crassicrus Reichling & West, 1996 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae), with the description of additional keels on the embolus. Journal of Arachnology 45(1): 67-98. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-16-005.1

Candiani, D. F. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). The superficial ant: a revision of the Neotropical ant-mimicking spider genus Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4230(1): 1-95. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4230.1.1

Carrión, N. L., Olejnik, N. & Grismado, C. J. (2017). Las arañas (Araneae) de la Reserva Natural, Histórica y Refugio de Vida Silvestre Municipal Vuelta de Obligado, San Pedro, provincia de Buenos Aires (Argentina). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 83-95.

Carvajal, M. A. & Faúndez, E. I. (2017). First records of Salticus scenicus (Clerk, 1757) (Araneae: Salticidae) from North Dakota (USA). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 115-116.

Carvalho, L. S., Martins, P. H., Schneider, M. C. & Cabra-García, J. (2017). New records of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the state of Roraima, northern Brazil. Check List 13(1, 2040): 1-23. doi:10.15560/13.1.2040

Castalanelli, M. A., Huey, J. A., Hillyer, M. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2017). Molecular and morphological evidence for a new genus of small trapdoor spiders from arid Western Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae). Invertebrate Systematics 31(4): 492-505. doi:10.1071/IS16061

Cathrine, C. & Longhorn, S. (2017). Record of Phoneutria (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Inverbervie, Aberdeenshire. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 139: 13-15.

Cazanove, G. (2017). Découverte de Zygiella x-notata (Araneae, Araneidae) sur l'île de La Réunion (Océan Indien). Revue Arachnologique 2 4: 22-25.

Chatterjee, S., Caleb, J. T. D., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. (2017). First report of Menemerus nigli (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Halteres 8: 109-111. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1133147

Chatzaki, M. & Russell-Smith, A. (2017). New species and new records of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Cyprus. Zootaxa 4329(3): 237-255. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.3

Chen, J. (2017). A new synonym of Prochora praticola (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Araneae: Miturgidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 45.

Chen, Z. E., He, B. Y., Yin, H. Q. & Xu, X. (2017). First description of the female of Euryopis cyclosisa Zhu & Song, 1997 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 30-34. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.007

Chomphuphuang, N., Smith, D., Wongvilas, S., Sivayyapram, V., Songsangchote, C. & Warrit, N. (2017). New species of Southeast Asian dwarf tarantula from Thailand: Phlogiellus Pocock, 1897 (Theraphosidae, Selenocosmiinae). ZooKeys 684: 57-73. doi:10.3897/zookeys.684.12558

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Kartaler, M. (2017). A new gnaphosid spider record from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Serket 15(4): 147-149.

Costa, E. L. S. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2017). On four new species of the jumping spider genus Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882 from South America (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4329(6): 584-593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.6.4

Cruveillier, M., Guerbaa, K. & Lecigne, S. (2017). Découverte en Creuse (France) de Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1758), (Araneae, Pisauridae) et premières redécouvertes en France de Leviellus thorelli (Ausserer, 1871), (Araneae, Araneidae), une espèce rarement observée. Revue Arachnologique 2 4: 26-34.

Cuervo, D. A. & Buitrago, Y. L. (2017). Una especie nueva de araña del género Fageicera Dumitrescu & Georgescu, 1992 (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae), de Colombia. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 55-58.

Danışman, T. & Rubio, G. D. (2017). A new species of Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Entomological News 127(2): 178-183. doi:10.3157/021.127.0214

Danışman, T., Varol, M. İ. & Coşar, İ. (2017). Two new records of little-known myrmecomorphic spiders in Turkey (Araneae: Phrurolithidae and Zodariidae). Serket 15(4): 150-153.

Decae, A. & Huber, S. (2017). Description of a new Nemesia species from Sardinia that constructs a remarkable star-shaped trapdoor (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Arachnology 17(4): 188-194. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.4.188

Déjean, S. & Danflous, S. (2017). Erigone autumnalis Emerton 1882 (Araneae, Linyphiidae), nouvelle espèce pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique 2 4: 14-17.

Deltshev, C. (2017). Redescription of the poorly known crab spider Firmicus bivittatus (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 9-11. doi:10.5431/aramit5302

Demir, H., Seyyar, O. & Najim, S. A. (2017). Thomisus citrinellus Simon 1875 is a new record (Araneae: Thomisidae) for spider fauna of Iraq. Kahramanmaraş Sütçü İmam Üniversitesi Doğa Bilimleri Dergisi 20(1): 25-27. doi:10.18016/ksujns.96081

Demir, H., Seyyar, O. & Türker, H. (2017). A new spider species, Xysticus metinaktasi n. sp. from Turkey (Araneae, Thomisidae). International Journal of Research Studies in Zoology 3(3): 20-22. doi:10.20431/2454-941X.0303003

Demircan, N. & Topçu, A. (2017). A new species of Hoplopholcus Kulczyński, 1908 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from the European part of Turkey. Zoology in the Middle East 63(1): 82-85. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1269395

Dentici, A. (2017). Contribution to the knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 8(3): 861-864.

Dhali, D. C., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). Litter and ground dwelling spiders (Araneae: Arachnida) of reserve forests of Dooars, West Bengal. World Scientific News 63: 1-242.

Dhande, S. S., Bodkhe, A. & Ahmad, R. I. (2017). Description of a new spider species in the genus Cyclosa (Araneae- Araneidae) from India. Trends in Biosciences 10(20): 3825-3831.

Dhande, S. S., Bodkhe, A. K., Ahmad, R. I. & Kamble, S. S. (2017). First record of male Cyrtophora citricola Forsskål (Araneae: Araneidae) from India. Trends in Biosciences 10(24): 5234-5238.

Dimitrov, D., Benavides, L. R., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. (2017). Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). Cladistics 33(3): 221-250 & Suppl. doi:10.1111/cla.12165

Dimitrov, D., Deltshev, C. & Lazarov, S. (2017). Description of Histopona breviemboli sp. n. from the Balkan Peninsula (Arachnida, Araneae, Agelenidae). Zootaxa 4311(2): 283-286. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4311.2.10

Dixit, G. S. & Ade, P. P. (2017). Revision of spiders from the genus Cyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae) with description of three new species and the first record of male of C. conica and C. purnai from India. International Journal of Researches in Biosciences, Agriculture and Technology 5(Special Issue 2): 945-953.

Dolejš, P. & Rückl, K. (2017). Two rare spider species (Araneae: Araneidae, Theridiidae) found in the Šumava Mts. Journal of the National Museum (Prague), Natural History Series 186: 85-92. doi:10.2478/jzh-2018-0004

Dolejš, P. (2017). Revize třesavek Pholcus phalangioides v Národním muzeu [Pholcus phalangioides in the National Museum revised]. Pavouk 43: 5-6.

Dong, T. T., Zheng, G., Davlatov, A., Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2017a). Two new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Tajikistan, with the first description of female Pholcus sidorenkoi Dunin, 1994. European Journal of Taxonomy 301: 1-14. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.301

Dong, T. T., Zheng, G., Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2017b). Ten new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4306(3): 339-369. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.3

Drapeau Picard, A.-P. (2017). Extension d’aire du saltique Synageles venator (Lucas, 1836) (Araneae: Salticidae) au Québec. Le Naturaliste Canadien 141: 16-21.

Drolshagen, B. (2017). Orientothele Mirza, Sanap & Kunte, 2017 is a junior synonym of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae: Hexathelidae). Arachnology 17(6): 282-283. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.282

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2017a). On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species. Zootaxa 4341(3): 375-399. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.3.3

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2017b). The goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) of the Otonga Nature Reserve in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species. Evolutionary Systematics 1: 97-109. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.14969

Edwards, G. B. (2017). Revision of Misumessus (Thomisidae: Thomisinae: Misumenini), with observations on crab spider terminology. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 296-323. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-025.1

El-Hennawy, H. K., Mohafez, M. A. & El-Gendy, A. A. (2017). The first record of Phlegra bresnieri (Lucas, 1846) in Egypt (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 15(3): 143-146.

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2017a). A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15(4): 167-183.

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2017b). Illustrated key to spider families of Egypt (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 15(4): 184-208.

Estol, N. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2017). A new species and a new record of the spider genus Nesticus (Araneae, Nesticidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4231(4): 564-566. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.4

Esyunin, S. L., Zamani, A. & Tuneva, T. K. (2017). On two poorly known Eurasian dictynid species (Aranei: Dictynidae), with a description of a new genus. Arthropoda Selecta 26(1): 49-62. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.1.07

Esyunin, S. L. (2017a). New data on Aituaria pontica (Spassky, 1932) (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(3): 241-243. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.3.05

Esyunin, S. L. (2017b). A D.E. Kharitonov’s collection of permanent slides of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae). Part 1. Family Dictynidae. Bulletin of Perm University, Biology 2017(3): 263-276.

Faúndez, E. I., Téllez, F., Raffo, F. & Aguilar, R. (2017). Sobre la presencia de Steatoda grossa (C.L. Koch, 1838) (Araneae: Theridiidae) en la Provincia de Santa Cruz (Argentina), con comentarios acerca de su reciente expansión en Patagonia Austral. Anales Instituto Patagonia 45(1): 53-57.

Feitosa, N. M., Moss, D. F., Ruiz, G. R. S. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). Twenty-seven new species of the goblin spider genus Neoxyphinus Birabén, 1953 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4259(1): 1-107. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4259.1.1

Feitosa, N. M. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). On a new species of the genus Simlops (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Guyana, with notes on the bodanus group of species. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 107(e2017021): 1-5. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2017021

Ferretti, N., Nime, M. & Mattoni, C. (2017). Three new Idiops (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from Argentina and redescription of the male of I. hirsutipedis Mello-Leitão, 1941. Journal of Natural History 51(17-18): 975-994. doi:10.1080/00222933.2017.1319516

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017a). A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 12. Two new Mongolicosa species from Mongolia. Zootaxa 4221(2): 233-241. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4221.2.7

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017b). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 8. New data on Berlandina and Gnaphosa from Mongolia. Zootaxa 4258(1): 69-80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4258.1.5

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017c). Gnaphosa serzonshteini, a replacement name for Gnaphosa zonsteini Fomichev & Marusik, 2017 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4286(3): 431. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.3.10

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017d). A survey of East Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 13. A new genus of spiny-legs Pardosinae from Eastern Kazakhstan. Zootaxa 4320(2): 339-350. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.8

Fonseca-Ferreira, R., Zampaulo, R. de A. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2017). Diversity of iron cave-dwelling mygalomorph spiders from Pará, Brazil, with description of three new species (Araneae). Tropical Zoology 30(4): 178-199. doi:10.1080/03946975.2017.1367590

Framenau, V. W. & Hudson, P. (2017). Taxonomy, systematics and biology of the Australian halotolerant wolf spider genus Tetralycosa (Araneae: Lycosidae: Artoriinae). European Journal of Taxonomy 335: 1-72. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.335

Framenau, V. W. & Harms, D. (2017). A new species of mouse spider (Actinopodidae, Missulena) from the Goldfields region of Western Australia. Evolutionary Systematics 1: 39-46. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.14665

Framenau, V. W. (2017). Portacosa, a new genus for the south-east Australian grey wolf spider (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Evolutionary Systematics 1: 77-86. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.1.14847

Fu, Y. Q, & Chen, J. (2017). A newly recorded species of the genus Leptopholcus from China (Araneae: Pholcidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 18-21. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.004

Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2017). Taxonomic revision and cladistic analysis of Avicularia Lamarck, 1818 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae) with description of three new aviculariine genera. ZooKeys 659: 1-185, Suppl. 1-5. doi:10.3897/zookeys.659.10717

Fukushima, C. S., Andrade, R. M. G. de & Bertani, R. (2017). Two new Brazilian species of Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832 with remarks on amazonica and rufescens groups (Araneae, Sicariidae). ZooKeys 667: 67-94. doi:10.3897/zookeys.667.11369

Gabriel, R. (2017). The revised taxonomical status of Cyclosternum bicolor (Schiapelli & Gerschman, 1945) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 32(1): 10-12.

Gál, J., Kovács, G., Bagyó, R., Vári, G. & Prazsák, I. (2017). A new Loureedia species on overgrazed former cork oak forest in Morocco (Araneae: Eresidae). Animal welfare, ethology and housing systems 12(1): 11-19. [published in March 2017, for 2016] doi:10.17205/SZIE.AWETH.2016.1.011

Galán-Sánchez, M. A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. (2017). Three new species of comb-tailed spiders (Araneae: Hahniidae) from a Mexican oak forest with comments on their natural history and sexual behavior. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 376-394. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-16-087.1

Galvis, W. (2017a). New species and records of lyssomanines (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae) from the Caribbean and Pacific coasts of Colombia. Zoology and Ecology 27(2): 133-142. doi:10.1080/21658005.2017.1304188

Galvis, W. (2017b). Nineteen new species of Amphidraus Simon, 1900 (Salticidae: Euophryini) from Colombia, with comments about their conservation. Zootaxa 4286(1): 1-40. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.1

Galvis, W., Flórez-Daza, E. & Albornoz, M. (2017). A new record of the orb-weaving spider Xylethrus superbus Simon (Araneae: Araneidae), the northernmost known from South America. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 157-158.

Galvis, W. (2017c). First record of the jumping spider genus Ceriomura (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Amycoida: Gophoini) from Colombia, with description of a new species. Peckhamia 157.1: 1-6.

Galvis, W. & Muñoz-Charry, V. (2017). First record of the genus Tanybelus (Salticidae: Salticinae: Sarindini) from Colombia. Caldasia 39(2): 400-405. doi:10.1544 6/caldasia.v39n2.63691

Gan, J. H., Wang, C. & Peng, X. J. (2017). Three new spider species of Irura Peckham & Peckham, 1901 from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4226(2): 273-282. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4226.2.7

Giroti, A. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2017). Revision of the spider genus Gippsicola Hogg, 1900 (Araneae: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4227(3): 390-406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.6

Gökalp, H. B. & Kaya, R. S. (2017). A new record of Zygiella for the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae: Araneidae). Serket 15(3): 130-134.

Goyal, V. & Malik, V. (2017). The first record of the redback spider Latrodectus hasselti Thorell (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Haryana, north India. Journal of Environment and Bio-Sciences 31(2): 441-442, 1 pl..

Grismado, C. J. & Carrión, N. L. (2017). Description of Almafuerte, a new genus of ground spiders from South America (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4338(2): 263-291. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4338.2.3

Guadanucci, J. P. L., Perafán, C. & Valencia-Cuéllar, D. (2017). The genus Holothele Karsch, 1879: the identity of the type species (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Zoosystema 39(2): 263-271. doi:10.5252/z2017n2a5

Gündüz, G. (2017). A new cribellate spider for Turkey, Titanoeca caucasica Dunin, 1985 (Araneae: Titanoecidae). Serket 15(3): 135-137.

Haddad, C. R. & Mbo, Z. (2017). A new species of the endemic South African spider genus Austrachelas (Araneae: Gallieniellidae) and first description of the male of A. bergi. Zootaxa 4323(1): 119-124. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4323.1.9

Harvey, P. (2017a). The buzzing spider Anyphaena sabina L. Koch, new to Essex. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 18+20.

Harvey, P. (2017b). The buzzing spider Anyphaena numida Simon, new to Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 18-20.

Hauke, T. (2017). Die Vogelspinnen der Gattungen Haplopelma Simon, 1892 und Ornithoctonus Pocock, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ornithoctoninae) – Anmerkungen zur Taxonomie, Verbreitung, Ökologie und Bedeutung für den Menschen. Arachne 22(5): 4-53.

Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. (2017a). Morphological and molecular evidence for new genera in the Afrotropical Cteninae (Araneae, Ctenidae) complex. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180(1): 82-154 & Suppl. doi:10.1111/zoj.12461

Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. (2017b). The new ant-eating genus Suffascar (Araneae, Zodariidae) endemic to Madagascar: a considerable extension of the dual femoral organ clade. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 519-565. doi:10.1071/IS16064

Hepner, M. & Milasowszky, N. (2017). Erstnachweis von Cheiracanthium montanum L. Koch, 1877 (Arachnida: Araneae: Eutichuridae) in Österreich. Biodiversität und Naturschutz in Ostösterreich - BCBEA 3/1: 67-69.

Hernández-Corral, J. & Ferrández, M. Á. (2017). Descripción de una especie nueva de Palpimanus Dufour, 1820 de Marruecos (Araneae: Palpimanidae), con notas sobre los Palpimanus del Mediterráneo. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 37-46.

Hernández-Corral, J., Melic, A. & Micó, E. (2017). Primera cita del género Sernokorba Kamura, 1992 para la Península Ibérica con nuevos datos sobre Sernokorba tescorum (Simon, 1914) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 167-169.

Hirna, A. (2017). First record of the alien spider species Mermessus trilobatus (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 41-43. doi:10.5431/aramit5409

Hormiga, G. (2017). The discovery of the orb-weaving spider genus Pinkfloydia (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in eastern Australia with description of a new species from New South Wales and comments on the phylogeny of Nanometinae. Zootaxa 4311(4): 480-490. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4311.4.2

Hormiga, G. & Dimitrov, D. (2017). The discovery of the spider genus Putaoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) in Taiwan with the description of a new species, including its web architecture. Zootaxa 4341(1): 97-104. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.1.8

Hoser, R. T. (2017). A new genus-level classification of the Australian funnel-web spiders (Hexathelidae: Atracinae). Australasian Journal of Herpetology 35: 54-56.

Huang, G. Q., Zhang, Z. S. & Liu, Y. H. (2017). Review of the comb-tailed spider genus Hahnia C.L. Koch 1841 (Hahniidae) from Gaoligong Mountains in Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4344(3): 444-464. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.2

Huber, B. A. (2017). Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4219(1): 1-63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1

Huber, B. A., Neumann, J., Grabolle, A. & Hula, V. (2017). Aliens in Europe: updates on the distributions of Modisimus culicinus and Micropholcus fauroti (Araneae, Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 12-18. doi:10.5431/aramit5303

Huber, B. A. & Arias C., Q. (2017). Revision of the Venezuelan spider genus Stenosfemuraia González-Sponga, with new generic and specific synonymies (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4341(4): 495-508. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.3

Hula, V. (2017). Nový druh třesavky pro území České republiky, aneb další synantrop za dveřmi (nebo před?). Pavouk 42: 4-6.

Humphrey, M. (2017). A revision and cladistic analysis of the genus Corasoides Butler (Araneae: Desidae) with descriptions of nine new species. Records of the Australian Museum 69(1): 15-64. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1671

Huseynov, E. F. & Nuruyeva, T. V. (2017). Sidydrassus (Esyunin et Tuneva, 2002), a new genus of ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) for the fauna of the Caucasus. Zoology and Ecology 27(1): 44-46. doi:10.1080/21658005.2016.1260301

ICZN (2017). Closure of Cases (2018, 2182, 3593, 3693, 3735, 3737). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 74: 53. doi:10.21805/bzn.v74.a016

Indicatti, R. P., Chavari, J. L., Zucatelli-Júnior, M., Lucas, S. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2017). Six new species of silk-lined burrow spider genus Stenoterommata Holmberg, 1881 (Araneae, Nemesiidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4254(4): 435-456. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4254.4.2

Iorio, E. (2017). Inventaire des araignées et opilions de la Réserve Naturelle Régionale de la Pointe Saint-Gildas à Préfailles (Loire-Atlantique) (Arachnida). Invertébrés Armoricains 17: 45-61.

Isaia, M., Mammola, S., Mazzuca, P., Arnedo, M. A. & Pantini, P. (2017). Advances in the systematics of the spider genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 15(4): 307-326 & Suppl. 1-3. doi:10.1080/14772000.2016.1254304

Ivanov, V., Prishepchik, O. & Setrakova, E. (2017). Dolomedes plantarius (Araneae, Pisauridae) in Belarus: records, distribution and implications for conservation. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 33-37. doi:10.5431/aramit5407

Izquierdo, M. A. & Ramírez, M. J. (2017). Taxonomic revision of the jumping goblin spiders of the genus Orchestina Simon, 1882, in the Americas (Araneae: Oonopidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 410: 1-362. doi:10.1206/0003-0090-410.1.1

Jiang, X. K., Guo, X., Yu, Z. G. & Chen, H. M. (2017). First description of the male of the eyeless spider Draconarius tortus Chen, Zhu & Kim 2008 from China (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Zootaxa 4294(1): 141-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4294.1.11

Jiménez, M. L., Berrian, J. E., Polotow, D. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2017). Description of Califorctenus (Cteninae, Ctenidae, Araneae), a new spider genus from Mexico. Zootaxa 4238(1): 97-108. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.7

Jin, C., Yin, X. C. & Zhang, F. (2017a). Description of Paraceto gen. n. and a relimitation of the genus Cetonana (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4320(2): 225-244. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4320.2.2

Jin, C., Yin, X. C. & Zhang, F. (2017b). Four new species of the genus Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 and the first record of T. vulcani Simon, 1896 from south-west China (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4324(1): 23-49. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4324.1.2

Jocque, M., Wellens, S., Andrianarivosoa, J. D., Rakotondraparany, F., The Seing, S. & Jocqué, R. (2017). A new species of Ocyale (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Madagascar, with first observations on the biology of a representative in the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 355: 1-13. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.355

Kaderka, R. (2017). Description of the male of Bistriopelma matuskai Kaderka 2015 and a new species of Bistriopelma from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Revista Peruana de Biología 24(3): 231-242. doi:10.15381/rpb.v24i3.13904

Kamura, T. (2017). Description of the male of Drassyllus amamiensis (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 79-80. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.79

Karakaş Kiliç, G. & Özkütük, R. S. (2017). Dysderocrates tanatmisi sp. n., a new spider species from Turkey (Araneae, Dysderidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(6): 1072-1075. doi:10.3906/zoo-1612-22

Khasayeva, S. I. & Huseynov, E. F. (2017). To the study of gnaphosid spiders (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) of Western Azerbaijan with suggestion of two new synonyms. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 125-132. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.05

Kiany, N., Sadeghi, S., Kiany, M., Zamani, A. & Ostovani, S. (2017). Additions to the crab spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 1-8. doi:10.5431/aramit5301

Kim, T. W., Ye, S. H., Ji, S. H., Kim, D. H., Ji, S. H., Byun, J. K., Lee, H. M. & Kim, J. P. (2017). A newly recorded species of the genus Marpissa C. L. Koch, 1846 from Korea. Korean Arachnology 33(2): 5-8.

Kirazci, C., Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2017). A new jumping spider record for the fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 15(3): 127-129.

Komnenov, M. (2017). New data on spider fauna (Araneae) of Shar Mountain, north-western Macedonia. Proceedings of the 5th Congress of the Ecologists of Macedonia, with international participation (Ohrid, 19th-22nd October 2016). Special issues of the Macedonian Ecological Society 13: 44-61.

Korányi, D., Mezőfi, L. & Markó, V. (2017). First record of the jumping spider Icius subinermis (Araneae, Salticidae) in Hungary. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 38-40. doi:10.5431/aramit5408

Kovblyuk, M. M., Kastrygina, Z. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). New data on Hahnia C.L. Koch, 1841 from Crimea (Aranei: Hahniidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(1): 311-317. doi:10.3906/zoo-1603-55

Krejčí, T., Řezáč, M. & Kadlec, T. (2017). Zodarion ohridense (Araneae: Zodariidae) – a new record for Central Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 5-7. doi:10.5431/aramit5402

Kronestedt, T. (2017a). Species of Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae): a new species from Madagascar. Zootaxa 4263(3): 594-597. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4263.3.11

Kronestedt, T. (2017b). Species of Wadicosa (Araneae, Lycosidae): a new species close to W. quadrifera (Gravely) from the Western Ghats, India. Zootaxa 4300(2): 295-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4300.2.11

Kulkarni, S., Vartak, A., Deshpande, V. & Halali, D. (2017). The spiny theridiid genus Meotipa Simon, 1895 in India, with description of a strange new species with translucent abdomen and a phylogenetic analysis about the genus placement (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4291(3): 504-520.

Lan, Q. & Zhang, F. (2017). Redescription species Civizelotes caucasius, representing newly recorded of the genus Civizelotes from China (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(2): 65-70. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.02.001

Lecigne, S. (2017). Contribution a la connaissance de l’araneofaune (Araneae) de l’Algarve (Portugal). Description de Theridion bernardi n.sp. (Araneae: Theridiidae) et redécouverte d’Ozyptila perplexa Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 25-48.

Legittimo, C. M., Simeon, E., Di Pompeo, P. & Kulczycki, A. (2017). The Italian species of Pritha (Araneae, Filistatidae): a critical revision and description of two new species. Zootaxa 4243(2): 201-248. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4243.2.1

Li, C. J., Jin, Z. Y. & Yu, H. (2017). Redescription of the female of Diaea subdola, with notes on intraspecific morphological variation (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 41-45. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.009

Li, S. Q. & Wang, X. X. (2017). New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Dictynidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Guangxi and Guizhou, China. Zoological Systematics 42(2): 125-228. doi:10.11865/zs.201711

Lin, Y. C., Koh, J. K. H., Koponen, S. & Li, S. Q. (2017). Taxonomic notes on the armored spiders of the families Pacullidae and Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Singapore. ZooKeys 661: 15-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.661.10677

Lissner, J. (2017a). Description of the unknown male of Ozyptila tenerifensis (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 50-52. doi:10.5431/aramit5308

Lissner, J. & Gravesen, E. (2017). First record of Centromerus arcanus (O. P.-Cambridge, 1873) from Greenland (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Norwegian Journal of Entomology 64(1): 19-21.

Lissner, J. (2017b). New records of spiders (Araneae) from Portugal. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 52-58. doi:10.5431/aramit5412

Lissner, J. (2017c). A contribution to the knowledge of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in the Mediterranean and Macaronesian regions. Arachnology 17(6): 287-293. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.287

Lissner, J. (2017d). A new spider species, Zelotes annamarieae sp. n. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), from the Canary Island of la Gomera, Spain. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 3-7.

Liu, C., Li, F. Y., Li, S. Q. & Zheng, G. (2017a). Five new genera of the subfamily Psilodercinae (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Southeast Asia. Zoological Systematics 42(4): 395-417. doi:10.11865/zs.201717

Liu, C., Li, F. Y., Wongprom, P., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2017c). Eleven new species of the spider genus Althepus Thorell, 1898 (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa 4350(3): 469-499. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4350.3.3

Liu, K., Liu, J. & Xu, X. (2017). Two new species of the genus Oxytate from China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4320(1): 193-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4320.1.12

Liu, K., Chen, Z. W., Xu, X. & Peng, X. J. (2017b). Three new species of Synagelides Strand, 1906 from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4350(2): 291-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.5

Logunov, D. V. & Vahtera, V. (2017). Description of a new species of Vinathela Ono, 2000 (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae), based on morphological and molecular characters. Arachnology 17(5): 229-237. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.229

Logunov, D. V. & Schäfer, M. (2017). Further notes on Napoca Simon, 1901, the genus of beetle-like jumping spiders (Aranei: Salticidae), with a description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 26(3): 233-240. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.3.04

Logunov, D. V. (2017). New species and records in the genus Synagelides Strand in Bösenberg et Strand, 1906 (Aranei: Salticidae) from the Oriental region. Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 315-322. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.06

Lotz, L. N. (2017a). An update on the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with description of seven new species. Zootaxa 4341(4): 475-494. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.2

Lotz, L. N. (2017b). A new species of Afrarchaea (Araneae: Archaeidae) from South Africa. Arachnology 17(6): 296-298. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.296

Luna, M. de & Millán, A. B. (2017). Nuevos registros de Sphodros paisano Gertsch & Platnick, 1980 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Atypidae) del noreste de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 131-132.

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2017). Cladistic analysis supports the monophyly of the Neotropical crab spider genus Epicadus and its senior synonymy over Tobias (Araneae: Thomisidae). Invertebrate Systematics 31(4): 442-455 & Supplement. doi:10.1071/IS16074

Maddison, W. P. (2017). New species of Habronattus and Pellenes jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Harmochirina). ZooKeys 646: 45-72. doi:10.3897/zookeys.646.10787

Maddison, W. P., Evans, S. C., Hamilton, C. A., Bond, J. E., Lemmon, A. R. & Lemmon, E. M. (2017). A genome-wide phylogeny of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae), using anchored hybrid enrichment. ZooKeys 695: 89-101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.695.13852

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Martins, P. H., Nogueira, A. A. & Santos, A. J. (2017). Finding hot singles: matching males to females in dimorphic spiders (Araneidae: Micrathena) using phylogenetic placement and DNA barcoding. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 8-36. doi:10.1071/IS15062

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Brescovit, A. D. & Santos, A. J. (2017). Phylogeny of Sicariidae spiders (Araneae: Haplogynae), with a monograph on Neotropical Sicarius. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179(4): 767-864. doi:10.1111/zoj.12442

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Ramírez, M. J. (2017). Relationships and phylogenetic revision of Filistatinella spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae). Invertebrate Systematics 31(6): 665-712. doi:10.1071/IS16083

Magar, K. T., Gurung, M. B., Hill, D. E. & Shrestha, B. R. (2017). New record of the jumping spider Epeus exdomus from Nepal (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina). Peckhamia 154.1: 1-5.

Maheshwari, N. R. & Chopda, M. Z. (2017). Record of Stenaelurillus jagannathae from Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India. Global Journal for Research Analysis 6(6): 324-325.

Malamel, J. J. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2017). First record of Epidius parvati Benjamin, 2000 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Pathiramanal Island, India. Check List 13(3, 2114): 1-4. doi:10.15560/13.3.2114

Malik, S., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2017). First report of male star-legged spider Uroctea thaleri (Rheims, Santos and van Harten, 2007) (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from India. European Journal of Zoological Research 5(1): 15-18.

Martínez, L., Villarreal, E. & Martinez, N. (2017). A new species of the genus Parachemmis Chickering, 1937 from Colombia (Araneae, Corinnidae, Corinninae). ZooKeys 679: 29-35. doi:10.3897/zookeys.679.12421

Martínez, L. & Galvis, W. (2017a). Three new species of jumping spiders of the genus Hypaeus Simon, 1900 from Colombia (Salticidae: Salticinae: Amycini). Zootaxa 4282(1): 192-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4282.1.12

Martínez, L. (2017). New records of the genus Xanthofreya Edwards from Colombia (Salticidae: Freyina). Peckhamia 155.1: 1-6.

Martínez, L. & Galvis, W. (2017b). First record of the ant-like jumping spider genus Simprulla Simon (Salticidae: Sarindini) from Colombia. Peckhamia 156.1: 1-5.

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2017). A survey of the Holarctic genus Arctella Holm, 1945 (Araneae: Dictynidae, Tricholathysinae), with the description of Tricholathys ovtchinnikovi sp. n. Oriental Insects 51(3): 246-261. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1279086

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017a). A new species of Acantholycosa baltoroi-group (Araneae: Lycosidae, Pardosinae) from the Russian Far East. Zootaxa 4232(4): 597-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4232.4.12

Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2017). On two sibling species of Dictyna (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Ukraine and Caucasus. Entomologica Fennica 28(1): 41-48.

Marusik, Y. M. (2017a). Description of unknown sexes in two Pireneitega species from Tajikistan (Araneae: Agelenidae, Coelotinae). Zootaxa 4273(3): 435-438. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4273.3.8

Marusik, Y. M. (2017b). A review of Diphya (Aranei: Tetragnathidae) from South Africa. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 133-138. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.06

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2017). First record of Diphya wulingensis Yu, Zhang et Omelko, 2014 (Aranei: Tetragnathidae) in Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 139-144. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.07

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017b). Redescription of Micaria beaufortia (Araneae, Gnaphosidae), with notes on Afrotropical Micaria. Zootaxa 4294(4): 462-470. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4294.4.5

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017c). A new genus of tetragnathid spiders from Papua New Guinea (Aranei, Tetragnathidae). Vestnik Zoologii 51(3): 203-214. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2017-0027

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017d). A new species of Tekellina (Araneae, Araneoidea) from the Russian Far East. Entomologica Fennica 28(3): 164-168.

Marusik, Y. M. (2017c). Redescription of the holotype of Larinia vara Kauri, 1950 (Aranei: Araneidae) from South Africa, with establishing of a new combination. Arthropoda Selecta 26(3): 245-247. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.3.06

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2017e). First illustrated description of the male of Diphya macrophthalma, the type species of the genus (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 107(e2017036): 1-7. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2017036

Marusik, Y. M. (2017d). Redescription of the type species of the genus Argistes (Aranei, Liocranidae). Vestnik Zoologii 51(5): 363-368. doi:10.1515/vzoo-2017-0043

Marusik, Y. M. (2017e). On two sibling species of Hahnia (Araneae: Hahniidae) from Western Cape, South Africa. Arachnology 17(6): 299-301. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.299

Marusik, Y. M., Fedoriak, M. M., Koponen, S., Prokopenko, E. V. & Voloshyn, V. L. (2017). Taxonomic notes on two species of Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Ukraine, with the first description of the male of Carpathonesticus eriashvilii. Arachnology 17(6): 302-308. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.302

Marusik, Y. M., Koponen, S. & Zonstein, S. (2017). A revalidation and redescription of Sahastata infuscata, with notes on S. nigra (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 17(6): 309-311. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.309

Marusik, Y. M. (2017f). Redescription of Dysdera cylindrica (Aranei: Dysderidae) from Pakistan with notes on the distribution of the family. Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 310-314. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.05

Marusik, Y. M. & Logunov, D. V. (2017). New faunistic and taxonomic data on spiders (Arachnidae: Aranei) from the Russian Far East. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 87-96. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.87

Maya-Morales, J., Jiménez, M. L., Murugan, G. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. (2017). Four new genera of funnel-web spiders (Araneae: Agelenidae) from the Baja California Peninsula in Mexico. Journal of Arachnology 45(1): 30-66. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-16-024.1

Maya-Morales, J. & Jiménez, M. L. (2017a). Revision of the funnel-web spider genus Novalena (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 4262(1): 1-88. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4262.1.1

Maya-Morales, J. & Jiménez, M. L. (2017b). Two new species of Melpomene from Mexico and description of the female of Melpomene elegans (Araneae: Agelenidae). Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 88(3): 579-586. doi:10.1016/j.rmb.2017.07.013

Mendoza, J. I. & Francke, O. F. (2017). Systematic revision of Brachypelma red-kneed tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), and the use of DNA barcodes to assist in the identification and conservation of CITES-listed species. Invertebrate Systematics 31(2): 157-179. doi:10.1071/IS16023

Mezőfi, L. (2017). First record of the cosmopolitan spider Oecobius navus Blackwall 1859 (Araneae, Oecobiidae) in Croatia. Zoology and Ecology 27(1): 54-56. doi:10.1080/21658005.2016.1260308

Michalik, P. & Wunderlich, J. (2017). The spider genus Austrochilus Gertsch & Zapfe, 1955 (Araneae: Austrochilidae) — a new species from Chile and a documentation of the male genitalia of austrochilines. Zootaxa 4312(2): 323-332. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4312.2.7

Mikhailov, K. G., Otto, S. & Japoshvili, G. (2017). A new species from the Clubiona caerulescens group from the Caucasus (Araneae: Clubionidae). Zoology in the Middle East 63(4): 362-368. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1361188

Milasowszky, N., Bauder, J. & Hepner, M. (2017). Diplocephalus komposchi n. sp., a new species of erigonine spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Austria. Zootaxa 4268(2): 296-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4268.2.10

Miñano, J. & Tamajón Gómez, R. (2017). Descripción de una nueva especie de Afraflacilla Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae) del área del Mediterráneo occidental. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 71-81.

Mirza, Z. A., Sanap, R. V. & Kunte, K. (2017). A new genus and new species of diplurid spider (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) from northeast India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 10(1): 32-38. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2016.03.013

Moradmand, M. (2017). Three new species of the subterranean huntsman spider genus Spariolenus (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) in Iran. Subterranean Biology 24: 11-25. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.24.20985

Mukhtar, M. K. (2017). Two new species of Oxyopes (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from Punjab, Pakistan. Pakistan Journal of Zoology 49(1): 143-148. doi:10.17582/journal.pjz/2017.49.1.143.148

Murthappa, P. S., Malamel, J. J., Prajapati, D. A., Sebastian, P. A. & Venkateshwarlu, M. (2017). First description of the male of the type species Meotipa picturata Simon, 1895 and description of a new Meotipa species (Araneae, Theridiidae) from India. Zootaxa 4344(3): 589-596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4344.3.9

Nadolny, A. A. & Zamani, A. (2017). A new species of burrowing wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosa) from Iran. Zootaxa 4286(4): 597-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.13

Nakano, T., Ihara, Y., Kumasaki, Y., Baba, Y. G. & Tomikawa, K. (2017). Evaluation of the systematic status of geographical variations in Arcuphantes hibanus (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Science 34(4): 331-344. doi:10.2108/zs160168

Naumova, M., Blagoev, G., Dimitrov, D., Lazarov, S. & Deltshev, C. (2017). New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 69(4): 477-481.

Noordijk, J. & Winkel, M. de (2017). Eusparassus dufouri en andere jachtkrabspinnen (Araneae: Sparassidae) getransporteerd naar Nederland [Eusparassus dufouri and other huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) transported tothe Netherlands]. Entomologische Berichten 77(2): 58-61.

Nuruyeva, T. V. (2017). The fauna of soil-dwelling spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in forest stands of dry-steppe lowmountains of Gobustan, Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 16(4): 306-310.

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Okumura, K.-I. (2017). Dichodactylus gen. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) from Japan. Species Diversity 22: 29-36. doi:10.12782/sd.22_29

Okumura, K.-I., Koike, N. & Nakano, T. (2017). Revision of the taxonomic status of two coelotine species (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 73-78. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.73

Ortiz, D. & Francke, O. F. (2017). Reconciling morphological and molecular systematics in tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae): revision of the Mexican endemic genus Bonnetina. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180(4): 819-886. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw013

Ott, R., Ruiz, G. R. S., Brescovit, A. D. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2017). Amazoonops, a new genus of goblin spiders (Araneae: Oonopidae) from the Brazilian Amazon. Zootaxa 4236(2): 244-268. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4236.2.2

Ott, R. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2017). Two new species of orb-weaving spiders of the genus Larinia (Araneae, Araneidae) in meridional Brazil. Zootaxa 4247(1): 89-93. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4247.1.13

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2017a). Five new peacock spiders from eastern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878 and Saratus, new genus). Peckhamia 147.1: 1-86.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2017b). Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus). Peckhamia 148.1: 1-21.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2017c). Five new peacock spiders from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 152.1: 1-97.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2017e). Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 2. Peckhamia 148.2: 1-24.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2017d). Two new peacock spiders from southeastern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 153.1: 1-34.

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Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Kunt, K. B. & Kiliç, G. (2017b). First faunistic record of Tegenaria vankeerorum Bolzern, Burckhardt & Hänggi, 2013 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey with description of unknown female. Biological Diversity and Conservation 10(3): 178-183.

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. (2017). A new species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks on Trite relationships and radiation. PeerJ 5(e3463): 1-19. doi:10.7717/peerj.3463

Patoleta, B. M., Gardzińska, J. & Żabka, M. (2017). New species of Rogmocrypta Simon, 1900 from New Caledonia, with remarks on relationships and distribution (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 697: 73-86. doi:10.3897/zookeys.697.13381

Pavlek, M. & Ribera, C. (2017). Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species. European Journal of Taxonomy 262: 1-27. doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.262

Pekár, S., Petráková, L., Corcobado, G. & Whyte, R. (2017). Revision of eastern Australian ant-mimicking spiders of the genus Myrmarachne (Araneae, Salticidae) reveals a complex of species and forms. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179(3): 642-676 & Supporting Information. doi:10.1111/zoj.12439

Piacentini, L. N., Grismado, C. J. & Ramírez, M. J. (2017). An update of the goblin spider genus Birabenella Grismado, 2010 (Araneae: Oonopidae), with the description of three new species. American Museum Novitates 3883: 1-17. doi:10.1206/3883.1

Piacentini, L. N., Scioscia, C. L., Carbajal, M. N., Ott, R., Brescovit, A. D. & Ramírez, M. J. (2017). A revision of the wolf spider genus Diapontia Keyserling, and the relationships of the subfamily Sosippinae (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 75(3): 387-415 & Suppl. 1+2.

Poeta, M. R. M. & Teixeira, R. A. (2017). Description of the male of the spider Eustala vellardi Mello-Leitão, 1924, the female of E. delasmata Bryant, 1945 and seven species of Eustala Simon, 1895 declared as nomina dubia (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4273(1): 112-120. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4273.1.8

Polchaninova, N. Y. (2017). On a spider species new to science collected during the EDGG 7th Field Workshop in Spain. Bulletin of the Eurasian Dry Grassland Group 33: 27.

Polotow, D. & Griswold, C. (2017). Cleaning old cabinets: revealing the taxonomy of Sri Lankan wolf spiders (Araneae, Udubidae and Zoropsidae). Zootaxa 4362(1): 51-74. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.3

Ponomarev, A. V., Alekseev, S. K., Kozminykh, V. O. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Stavropol Province, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 155-173. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.09

Ponomarev, A. V., Bragina, T. M. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). New data on spiders (Aranei) of the Naurzum State Natural Reserve (Kostanay Region, Kazakhstan). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 13(1): 3-10. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2017-13-1-3-10

Ponomarev, A. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). A new species of spiders of the genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the northern pre-Caspian area. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 13(1): 11-14. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2017-13-1-11-14

Ponomarev, A. V., Prokopenko, E. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2017). New and interesting records of spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) from the southeastern part of the Russian Plain. Proceedings of the Russian Entomological Society in St. Petersburg 88(1): 103-117.

Prószyński, J. (2017a). Revision of the genus Sitticus Simon, 1901 s. l. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 10: 35-50.

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi:10.37828/em.2017.12.1

Prószyński, J. (2017c). Remarks on the genus Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 13: 39-69.

Prószyński, J. (2017d). Review of the genus Sobasina (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 15: 53-61. doi:10.37828/em.2017.15.8

Puchulú-Figueiredo, C., Santanna, M. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2017). Six new species and new records of the spider genus Chrosiothes from Brazil with the description of the female of Chrosiothes venturosus Marques & Buckup, 1997 (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharinae). Zootaxa 4329(3): 219-236. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4329.3.2

Quasin, S., Siliwal, M., Patil, V. & Uniyal, V. P. (2017). First record of Ruborridion musivum Simon, 1873 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 12(1): 27-30.

Quasin, S., Siliwal, M. & Uniyal, V. P. (2017). First report of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae) with description of a new species from India. European Journal of Zoological Research 5(1): 19-22.

Ramseyer, L. J. & Crawford, R. L. (2017). First records of the European species Pseudeuophrys lanigera (Simon, 1871) (Araneae: Salticidae) in North America. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 93(4): 226-228. doi:10.3956/2017-93.4.226

Revollo, I. S., Silva Jr., P. I. da & Bertani, R. (2017). Two new Dolichothele Mello-Leitão, 1923 species from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 724: 1-20. doi:10.3897/zookeys.724.20680

Rheims, C. A. (2017). A new species of Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparianthinae) from Colombia, with an identification key for all known species of the genus. Zootaxa 4323(3): 435-439. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.11

Ríos-Tamayo, D. (2017). Re-description of Trichopelma cubanum (Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae) and comments about the familial placement of Trichopelma. Munis Entomology and Zoology 12(1): 194-198.

Ríos-Tamayo, D. & Goloboff, P. A. (2017). Vilchura calderoni, a new genus and speciesof Euagrinae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae) from Chile. Arachnology 17(4): 183-187. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.4.183

Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Main, B. Y., Harrison, S. E., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017a). The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. doi:10.1071/IS16065

Rix, M. G., Bain, K., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017b). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 395-423 & Suppl. 1-3. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1

Roušar, A. (2017). Snovačka půdní (Steatoda triangulosa) ve volné přírodě v ČR. Pavouk 42: 11-12.

Roy, T. K., Saha, S. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2017). On the araneid fauna (Araneae: Araneidae) of the tea estates of Dooars, West Bengal, India. World Scientific News 67(1): 1-67.

Rozwałka, R., Rutkowski, T. & Bielak-Bielecki, P (2017). New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland (II). Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 71(1, 2016): 59-85. [published in April 2017]

Rozwałka, R. & Bielak-Bielecki, P (2017). First records of the alien spider Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) (Araneae: Titanoecidae) in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 59(2, 2016): 121-126. doi:10.3161/00159301FF2016.59.2.121

Rozwałka, R., Dawidowicz, Ł. & Wawer, W. (2017). Three alien spider species (Araneae: Theridiidae) newly found in Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 60(1): 61-66. doi:10.3161/00159301FF2017.60.1.061

Rozwałka, R. & Olbrycht, T. (2017). New records of several rare spider species (Araneae) from south-eastern Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 60(1): 67-81. doi:10.3161/00159301FF2017.60.1.067

Rubio, G. D., Galvis, W. & Nadal, M. F. (2017). Description of the female of Lyssomanes miniaceus, with a new distribution record for L. belgranoi (Araneae: Salticidae). Caldasia 39(2): 239-246. doi:10.1544 6/caldasia.v39n2.60499

Russell-Smith, A. & Roberts, M. J. (2017). A revision of the African wolf spider genus Pterartoria Purcell, 1903 (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 17(6): 257-276. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.257

Russell-Smith, A. (2017). The rediscovery of Nigma flavescens in Britain. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 140: 16-17.

Sadeghi, S., Dashan, M. & Malek-Hosseini, M. J. (2017). Mediterranean Recluse Spider, Loxosceles rufescens (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Charkhab Cave, southern Iran. Journal of Arthropod-Borne Diseases 11(1): 156-160.

Salgado, A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2017). Ten new species of Amphidraus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini) and three new combinations. Zootaxa 4312(3): 401-437. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4312.3.1

Salvatierra, L., Brescovit, A. D. & Tourinho, A. L. (2017). The smallest spider of Uloboridae, a new species of Conifaber Opell, 1982 (Arachnida: Araneae) from Brazil. Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(1): 306-310. doi:10.3906/zoo-1605-39

Sanap, R. V., Joglekar, A., Prajapati, D. A. & Caleb, J. T. D. (2017). Two new species of Langelurillus Próchniewicz, 1994 from India (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillina). Zootaxa 4318(1): 135-146. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4318.1.6

Sancak, Z., Koç, H., Etirli, E. & Erdek, E. (2017). The first record of genus Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Turkey. Biharean Biologist 11(2): 121-122.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2017). A new genus with seven species of the subfamily Nopinae (Araneae, Caponiidae) from the Neotropical region. Zootaxa 4291(1): 117-143. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4291.1.7

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017). On the new monotypic wolf spider genus Ovia gen. nov. (Araneae: Lycosidae, Lycosinae). Zootaxa 4221(3): 366-376. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4221.3.5

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017a). Redescription of Zoica puellula (Simon, 1898) (Araneae: Lycosidae: Zoicinae) and transfer of Zoica harduarae (Biswas & Roy, 2008) to Agelenidae C.L. Koch, 1837. Zootaxa 4276(1): 145-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4276.1.11

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017a). A new species of Paratus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Liocranidae, Paratinae) from India. Zootaxa 4286(1): 139-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4286.1.12

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017b). On the genus Tylorida Simon, 1894 with the first record of the genus Atelidea Simon, 1895 from India (Araneae: Tetragnathidae, Leucauginae). Zootaxa 4353(2): 294-326. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.3

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2017b). Anaxibia folia spec. nov.—a new litter-dwelling dictynid spider from India (Araneae: Dictynidae: Dictyninae). Zootaxa 4363(3): 441-444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4363.3.9

Santos, A. J. (2017). The jumping lynx spider Oxyopes salticus Hentz, 1845 and its Neotropical relatives (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Zootaxa 4216(5): 457-481. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4216.5.3

Santos, A. J. & Gonzaga, M. O. (2017). Systematics and natural history of Uaitemuri, a new genus of the orb-weaving spider family Uloboridae (Araneae: Deinopoidea) from south-eastern Brazil. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 180(1): 155-174 & Suppl. doi:10.1111/zoj.12471

Schäfer, M. & Klimsa, E. (2017). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna Spaniens mit drei Erstnachweisen für die Balearen (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 62-66. doi:10.5431/aramit5310

Schwendinger, P. J. (2017). A revision of the trapdoor spider genus Liphistius (Mesothelae: Liphistiidae) in peninsular Malaysia; part 1. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 124(2): 391-445. doi:10.5281/zenodo.893555

Segura, M. del Mar Jiménez, Morano, E. & Iglesias, M. Méndez (2017). Arañas epigeas (Araneae) de matorrales y roquedos del antiguo Parque Nacional de la Montaña de Covadonga (norte de España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 31: 97-105.

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2017). New distributional records of Nesticodes rufipes (Lucas, 1846) in India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 12(2): 478-480.

Seo, B. K. (2017a). A new species and three new records of the family Lycosidae (Araneae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 35(2): 175-183. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2017.35.2.175

Seo, B. K. (2017b). Four new species of the genera Trilacuna, Orchestina and Hahnia of the families Oonopidae and Hahniidae (Araneae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 35(2): 184-190. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2017.35.2.184

Seo, B. K. (2017c). A new species and three new records of the families Gnaphosidae and Clubionidae (Araneae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 35(2): 191-197. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2017.35.2.191

Šestáková, A., Suvák, M., Krajčovičová, K., Kaňuchová, A. & Christophoryová, J. (2017). Arachnids from the greenhouses of the Botanical Garden of the PJ Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 19-28. doi:10.5431/aramit5304

Seyyar, O., Oba, A., Türkeş, T. & Demir, H. (2017). Setaphis parvula (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new record for the Turkish spider fauna. Serket 15(3): 124-126.

Shimojana, M. & Ono, H. (2017). A new spider of the genus Cicurina from a limestone cave on Minami-daito-jima Island, Okinawa, Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo (A) 43(2): 81-86.

Siliwal, M., Yadav, A. & Kumar, D. (2017). Three new species of tube-dwelling spider genus Ariadna Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Segestriidae) from India. Zootaxa 4362(3): 433-441. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4362.3.7

Silveira, A L. & Souza, M. N. A. de (2017). Ocorrência sinantrópica da aranha-marrom Loxosceles laeta (Araneae, Sicariidae) em áreas serranas no Estado de Minas Gerais, Brasil, e notas sobre loxoscelismo. Revista Médica de Minas Gerais 27(e-1858): 31-37.

Simó, M., Lise, A. A., Pompozzi, G. & Laborda, Á. (2017). On the taxonomy of southern South American species of the wolf spider genus Allocosa (Araneae: Lycosidae: Allocosinae). Zootaxa 4216(3): 261-278. [incl. erratum: 4254(5): 599-600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4216.3.4

Sivayyapram, V., Smith, D. R., Weingdow, S. & Warrit, N. (2017). A new Liphistius species (Mesothelae: Liphistiidae: Liphistiinae) from Thailand, with notes on its natural history. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 287.295. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-028.1

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A. & Jäger, P. (2017). Further spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 17(6): 317-322. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.317

Smith, H. M., Harvey, M. S., Agnarsson, I. & Anderson, G. J. (2017). Notes on the ant-mimic genus Anatea Berland (Araneae: Theridiidae) and two new species from tropical Australia. Records of the Australian Museum 69(1): 1-13. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672

Solanki, R., Siliwal, M. & Kumar, D. (2017). First record of Pandava laminata (Thorell, 1878) (Araneae: Titanoecidae) from India. European Journal of Zoological Research 5(1): 23-27.

Song, Y., Zhao, H. F., Luo, Y. & Li, S. Q. (2017a). Three new species of Pinelema from caves in Guangxi, China (Araneae, Telemidae). ZooKeys 692: 83-101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.692.11677

Song, Y., Zhao, H. F., Luo, Y., Kioko, G. M., Kioko, E. N. & Li, S. Q. (2017b). The first record of Telemidae from Kenya, with the description of two new species (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 725: 1-15. doi:10.3897/zookeys.725.15059

Souza, L. H. B., Brescovit, A. D. & Araujo, D. (2017). A new species of Synotaxus and the first chromosomal study on Synotaxidae, presenting a rare XY sex chromosome system in spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea). Zootaxa 4303(1): 140-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4303.1.9

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2017). Revision of Hindumanes Logunov, 2004 (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae), with description of a new species from the Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Zootaxa 4350(2): 317-330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4350.2.7

Sunil Jose, K. (2017a). New records of Poecilotheria hanumavilasumica Smith, 2004 from Western Ghats, Kerala (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Species 18(58): 57-61.

Sunil Jose, K. (2017b). Redescription of Haploclastus kayi Gravely, 1915 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Biosystematica 10(for 2016): 5-10.

Sunil Jose, K. (2017c). A new species of Sahydroaraneus (Theraphosidae) from Western Ghats of Kerala, India. Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 5(3): 186-189.

Suzuki, Y. (2017a). Spiders collected in Kunimatsu and Oda, Tsukuba City, Ibaraki Prefecture. Kishidaia 110: 37-39.

Suzuki, Y. (2017b). The first collecting data of female of Coreodrassus lancearius from Japan. Kishidaia 110: 40-42.

Szűts, T., Zalai, B., Villepoux, O., Buchholz, S., Eichardt, J., Zhukovets, E., Oger, P. & Szinetár, C. (2017). On the identity of the Palearctic species of the wolf spider genus Trebacosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4216(4): 384-394. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4216.4.6

Szymkowiak, P. & Królikowska, S. (2017). Redescription of Bomis larvata L. Koch, 1874 with the description of a new Australian species. Zootaxa 4323(4): 451-468. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4323.4.1

Tahami, M. S., Zamani, A., Sadeghi, S. & Ribera, C. (2017). A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832 (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iranian caves. Zootaxa 4318(2): 377-387. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.10

Talwar, S. S., Majagi, S. H., Vijaykumar, K., Bodkhe, A. K. & Kamble, S. S. (2017). First record of genus Cyrba Simon, 1876 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 15(3): 138-142.

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017a). New species and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Indo-Malayan Region (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4227(3): 325-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.2

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017b). New genera and new species of the family Linyphiidae from Borneo, Sumatra and Java (Arachnida, Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 124(1): 141-155. doi:10.5281/zenodo.322672

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017c). A new Dactylopisthes Simon, 1884 from the Caucasus (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(1): 63-65. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.1.08

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017d). A new Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 1996 from the Elburz Mountains, Iran (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zoology in the Middle East 63(2): 172-175. doi:10.1080/09397140.2017.1320840

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017e). Spiders (Aranei) of the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and the Vaygach Island, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(2): 145-153. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.2.08

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017f). A new Oreonetides Strand, 1901 from the Russian Far East (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4318(3): 569-599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.11

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2017g). Another new species of Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883 from India (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 124(2): 331-333. doi:10.5281/zenodo.893545

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Khruleva, O. A. (2017). Spiders (Aranei) of the typical tundra subzone of the Yugorsky Peninsula, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 341-368. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.10

Tanikawa, A. (2017a). A new species of Zygiella from Amami-ôshima Island, Japan (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 1-4. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.1

Tanikawa, A. (2017b). Uloborus plumipes and Dipoena pelorosa (Araneae: Uloboridae, Theridiidae): two newly recorded spiders in Japan. Acta Arachnologica 66(1): 5-8. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.5

Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2017). A new record of genus Pholcus from Turkey (Araneae: Pholcidae). Serket 15(4): 157-158.

Trotta, A. & Cherubini, A. (2017). Contributo alla conoscenza dei ragni (Arachnida, Araneae) del Veneto. Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 41(Botanica Zoologia): 55-86.

Uyar, Z. & Dolejš, P. (2017). New records and notes on some spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae, Salticidae, Theridiidae) from Turkey. Entomological News 127(1): 51-63. doi:10.3157/021.127.0107

Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2017). On the poorly known haplogynae spiders of the genus Ochyrocera Simon (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Mexico: description of two new species with an updated identification key for Mexican species. Zootaxa 4226(2): 194-204. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4226.2.2

Van der Krieken, B., Oger, P. & Janssen, M. (2017). Philodromus fuscomarginatus (De Geer, 1778), nieuw voor België. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32(3): 102-107.

Vanderhaegen, K. & Jocqué, R. (2017). A new Afromontane species of the ant-eating spider genus Dusmadiores and description of the male of D. deserticola (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4318(3): 548-560. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4318.3.7

Varol, M. İ. & Danışman, T. (2017). Two new records of Dysdera from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 15(4): 154-156.

Vidal, E. & Oger, P. (2017). Heriaeus graminicola (Doleschall, 1852) (Araneae, Thomisidae) unse espèce confirmée pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique 2 4: 11-13.

Wang, C. & Mi, X. Q. (2017). First description on the female of Ptocasisus kinhi Zabka, 1985 (Aranere: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(2): 79-81. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.02.04

Wang, C. X., Xu, X. & Li, S. Q. (2017). Integrative taxonomy of Leptonetela spiders (Araneae, Leptonetidae), with descriptions of 46 new species. Zoological Research 38(6): 321-448. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.076

Wesołowska, W. (2017). Description of the male of Icius grassei (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnology 17(5): 253-257. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.5.253

Wheeler, W. C., Coddington, J. A., Crowley, L. M., Dimitrov, D., Goloboff, P. A., Griswold, C. E., Hormiga, G., Prendini, L., Ramírez, M. J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L. M., Álvarez-Padilla, F., Arnedo, M. A., Benavides, L. R., Benjamin, S. P., Bond, J. E., Grismado, C. J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M. A., Labarque, F. M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W. P., Miller, J. A., Piacentini, L. N., Platnick, N. I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C., Wood, H. M. & Zhang, J. X. (2017). The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33(6): 576-616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182

Williams, S. H. (2017). New faunistic records of Gasteracantha Sundevall, 1833 and Macracantha Simon, 1864 species (Araneae: Araneidae) from Vietnam. Arthropoda Selecta 26(3): 249-252. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.3.07

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2017). Rare spider species (Araneae) from the Giant Mountains and the Izera Mountains – new records for the fauna of Poland. Fragmenta Faunistica 59(2, 2016): 115-120. [published in March 2017, for 2016] doi:10.3161/00159301FF2016.59.2.115

Wiśniewski, K. & Dawidowicz, Ł. (2017). Uloborus walckenaerius and Oxyopes heterophthalmus in Poland (Araneae: Uloboridae, Oxyopidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 48-51. doi:10.5431/aramit5411

Wu, J. L., Luo, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2017). Nine new species of the spider genus Stedocys (Araneae, Scytodidae) from China and Thailand. Zoological Research 52(5): 215-242. doi:10.24272/j.issn.2095-8137.2017.066

Wu, Z. S., Yuan, L. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017). The first description of the male Synagelides yunnan from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 27-29. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.006

Wunderlich, J. (2017a). A new Thanatus C. L. Koch (Araneae: Philodromidae) from Africa (Nigeria). Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 7-9, 333.

Wunderlich, J. (2017b). Descriptions, notes and synonyms of some mainly Mediterranean and Macaronesian spiders (Araneae) of various families. Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 298-326, 354.

Wunderlich, J. (2017c). A new extant spider genus from Myanmar (Burma) (Araneae: Dictynidae: Dictyninae). Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 327-330, 354.

Wunderlich, J. (2017d). New and rare fossil spiders (Araneae) in Mid Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Burma), including the description of new extinct families of the suborders Mesothelae and Opisthothelae, as well as notes on the taxonomy, the evolution and the biogeography of the Mesothelae. Beiträge zur Araneologie 10: 72-279, 333-354.

Xiong, F., Liu, Z. P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017). Review on the jumping spider genus Hyllus from China (Araneae Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 22-26. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.005

Xu, X., Xu, C., Liu, F. X., Zhang, Z. T. & Li, D. Q. (2017a). Four new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 from mainland China and Laos (Araneae, Ctenizidae). ZooKeys 643: 63-74. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.10543

Xu, X., Xu, C., Li, F., Pham, D. S. & Li, D. Q. (2017b). Trapdoor spiders of the genus Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 from China and Vietnam (Araneae, Ctenizidae). ZooKeys 643: 75-85. doi:10.3897/zookeys.643.10797

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Ono, H., Chen, J., Kuntner, M. & Li, D. Q. (2017c). Targeted sampling in Ryukyus facilitates species delimitation of the primitively segmented spider genus Ryuthela (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(4): 867-909. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx024

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Kuntner, M. & Li, D. Q. (2017d). Four new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Qiongthela from Hainan island, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 714: 1-11. doi:10.3897/zookeys.714.19858

Yadav, S., Patil, V. & Ismavel, V. A. (2017). Report of Platythomisus octomaculatus (C. L. Koch, 1845) and Platythomisus sudeepi Biswas, 1977 from India (Araneae, Thomisidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 5(e10294): 1-8. doi:10.3897/BDJ.5.e10294

Yamasaki, T., Koh, J. K. H. & Court, D. J. (2017). The first record of the female of Idastrandia orientalis (Szombathy 1915) from Singapore, with redescription of the holotype (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 81-85. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.81

Yamasaki, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T., Hyodo, F., Itioka, T. & Tavano, M. L. (2017). A new species of the genus Sphecotypus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1895 from Borneo, with a comparison with the holotype of S. birmanicus (Thorell, 1897) (Araneae, Corinnidae). Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale Giacomo Doria 110: 21-32.

Yang, S. F., Liu, W., Liu, P. & Peng, X. J. (2017). Five new species of Spartaeus Thorell, 1891 from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4303(3): 379-394. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4303.3.4

Ye, S. H., Kim, B. W. & Kim, J. P. (2017). A newly recorded species of the genus Gongylidioides (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 33(2): 1-4.

Yu, H. & Chen, J. (2017). A new species of the Clubiona pteronetoides-group from Wuling Mountains, China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 13-17. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.003

Yu, H., Zhang, J. S. & Chen, J. (2017a). Taxonomy of the genus Pristidia Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 (Araneae: Clubionidae) in China. Zootaxa 4306(3): 411-418. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4306.3.7

Yu, H., Zhang, J. S. & Chen, J. (2017b). Checklist of the Clubiona japonica-group spiders, with the description of a new species from China (Araneae, Clubionidae). ZooKeys 715: 1-16. doi:10.3897/zookeys.715.14645

Yu, H., Li, F. M. & Jin, Z. Y. (2017). Description of a new species of Lysiteles Simon from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(6): 1076-1082. doi:10.3906/zoo-1705-3

Yu, H., Zhang, J. S. & Chen, J. (2017c). A new and a newly recorded species of genus Clubiona (Araneae: Clubionidae) from China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 36(6): 692-696. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20170122

Yu, H. & Zhang, J. S. (2017). Two Lysiteles species from Leigong Mountains in Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(2): 71-75. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.02.02

Żabka, M. & Gardzińska, J. (2017). Salticidae of Thailand. Part 1, genera Plexippus C. L. Koch, 1846 and Burmattus Prószyński, 1992. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 67(2): 229-242. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2017.67.2.004

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). Six new species of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Oriental Insects 51(4): 313-329. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1282386

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2017). First description of the male of the easternmost Harpactea species, H. parthica (Araneae: Dysderidae). Zootaxa 4238(2): 258-262. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4238.2.6

Zamani, A., Hosseinpour, A., Azizi, K. & Soltani, A. (2017a). A new species of the jumping spider genus Evarcha (s. lat.) from southwestern Iran (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 150.1: 1-5.

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M., Hatami, M. & Maddahi, H. (2017b). The spider genus Oecobius in Iran, with description of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Oriental Insects 51(4): 330-337. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1283257

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017). Description of a new species of Hersiliola and the male of Duninia rheimsae Marusik & Fet, 2009 from Iran (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 41(4): 624-629. doi:10.3906/zoo-1609-53

Zamani, A. & Mozaffarian, F. (2017). Further spider (Arachnida: Araneae) material deposited in the Agricultural Zoology Museum of Iran (AZMI), Iranian Research Institute of Plant Protection. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 54: 8-20. doi:10.5431/aramit5403

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Dolejš, P., Marusik, Y. M., Esyunin, S. L., Hula, V. & Ponel, P. (2017c). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part IV. Acta Arachnologica 66(2): 55-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.66.55

Zhang, H., Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2017). One new Pseudopoda species group (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Yunnan Province, China, with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4318(2): 271-294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4318.2.3

Zhang, X. Q., Zhao, Z., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2017). A survey of five Pireneitega species (Agelenidae, Coelotinae) from China. ZooKeys 663: 45-64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.663.11356

Zhang, X. Q. & Zhao, Z. (2017). A new species of Longicoelotes (Araneae, Agelenidae) from China, with the first description of the male of L. kulianganus (Chamberlin, 1924). ZooKeys 686: 137-147. doi:10.3897/zookeys.686.11711

Zhang, Z. S. & Wang, L. Y. (2017). Chinese spiders illustrated. Chongqing University Press, 954 pp.

Zhao, Q. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2017). Callosa gen. n., a new troglobitic genus from southwest China (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 703: 109-128. doi:10.3897/zookeys.703.13641

Zhong, Y., Cao, X. W. & Liu, J. (2017). Six Sinopoda species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Fujian and Yunnan Provinces in China. Zootaxa 4227(2): 151-172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.2.1

Zhou, B. B. & Zhang, F. (2017a). One new Cyclosa species, and the first record of C. sachikoae Tanikawa, 1992 from China (Aranei: Araneidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 335-340. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.09

Zhou, B. B. & Zhang, F. (2017b). A new species of the genus Cyclosa from Hainan Island, China (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(2): 76-78. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.02.03

Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2017). A new spider species of the genus Holoplatys Simon, 1885 from the Southern China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 1-5. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.001

Zhou, H., Zhu, J. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017). Two new and four newly recorded species of orbweaver spiders from China (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 6-12. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.002

Zhou, Y. C., Yuen, Y. L. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017). A new Bifidocoelotes species, with the description of the male of B. primus from Hong Kong, China (Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Zootaxa 4232(3): 429-436. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4232.3.11

Zhu, M. S., Wang, X. P. & Zhang, Z. S. (2017). Fauna Sinica: Invertebrata Vol. 59: Arachnida: Araneae: Agelenidae and Amaurobiidae. Science Press, Beijing, 727 pp. [published in Nov. 2017, not in Jan. 2018 as mentioned in the book]

Zhu, Y. & Liu, J. (2017). The first description of the female of Pseudopoda roganda Jäger & Vedel 2007 from Yunnan Province (Araneae: Sparassidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 26(1): 35-40. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2017.01.008

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2017). New data on the spider genus Levymanus (Araneae: Palpimanidae). Oriental Insects 51(3): 221-226. doi:10.1080/00305316.2016.1275989

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017a). Descriptions of the two-eyed African spider genera Chedimanops gen. n. and Hybosidella gen. n. (Araneae, Palpimanidae, Chediminae). African Invertebrates 58(1): 23-47. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.58.11448

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2017b). A redescription of Chedima purpurea Simon, 1873, with notes on the unique copulative stopper mechanism in females (Aranei: Palpimanidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(3): 225-232. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.3.03

Zonstein, S. L. (2017). Notes on Nemesia and Iberesia in the J. Murphy spider collection of the Manchester Museum (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 47: 141-158.

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Magalhaes, I. L. F. (2017). Labahitha nom.n., a replacement name for Mystes Bristowe, 1938, with a redescription of the type species (Aranei: Filistatidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26(4): 303-309. doi:10.15298/arthsel.26.4.04

2018

Agnarsson, I., Van Patten, C., Sargeant, L., Chomitz, B., Dziki, A. & Binford, G. J. (2018). A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’, with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae: Theridiidae, Spintharus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182(4): 758-790. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx056

Al-Khazali, A. M. (2018). The first record of family Agelenidae from Iraq (Arachnida: Araneae). Serket 16(2): 60-65.

Ali, P. A., Maddison, W. P., Zahid, M. & Butt, A. (2018). New chrysilline and aelurilline jumping spiders from Pakistan (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 783: 1-15. doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.21985

Almeida, M. Q., Salvatierra, L. & Morais, J. W. de (2018a). A new species of Masteria L. Koch, 1873 (Dipluridae: Masteriinae) from Guyana. Zootaxa 4434(2): 366-368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.6

Almeida, M. Q., Salvatierra, L. & Morais, J. W. de (2018b). First record of Theraphosa apophysis (Tinter, 1991) (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) in Brazil. Check List 14(4): 647-650. doi:10.15560/14.4.647

Amanda, N., Salvatierra, L., Almeida, M. Q. & Morais, J. W. de (2018). Description of female of Titidius urucu Esmerio & Lise, 1996 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4422(2): 284-286. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4422.2.7

Andre, C. & Hüsser, M. (2018). About trapdoors and bridges – new insights in the little-known ecology and lifestyle of the genus Typhochlaena C.L. Koch, 1850. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 32(3): 3-29.

Andre, C. (2018). Pamphobeteus ultramarinus Schmidt, 1995: habitat, lifestyle, captive care and breeding. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(2): 17-46.

Asalatha, P., Dhali, D. C., Prasadan, P. K. & Sureshan, P. M. (2018). New record of the jumping spider genus Pristobaeus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 6(2017): 69-71. [publ. Feb. 2018]

Azarkina, G. N., Lyubechanskii, I. I., Trilikauskas, L. A., Dudko, R. Y., Bespalov, A. N. & Mordkovich, V. G. (2018). A check-list and zoogeographic analysis of the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of Novosibirsk Area (West Siberia, Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 73-93. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.11

Azarkina, G. N., Zoumides, C. & Hadjiconstantis, M. (2018). First description of the female of Aelurillus cypriotus Azarkina 2006 (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 49-54. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.49

Azevedo, G. H. F, Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018b). Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics 34(6): 579-626. doi:10.1111/cla.12226

Azevedo, G. H. F, Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J. (2018a). To complicate or to simplify? Phylogenetic tests of complexity trends and genital evolution in ground spiders (Araneae: Dionycha: Gnaphosidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 84(3): 673-694. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly016

Baba, Y. G. & Tanikawa, A. (2018). Two new spider species of the genera Glenognatha and Pachygnatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 39-42. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.39

Ballarin, F., Pantini, P. & Gobbi, M. (2018). Elevation to species level and redescription of Xysticus alpinus Kulczyński, 1887 stat. n. (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4500(2): 271-280. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4500.2.7

Ballesteros, J. A. & Hormiga, G. (2018). Species delimitation of the North American orchard-spider Leucauge venusta (Walckenaer, 1841) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 121: 183-197. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.01.002

Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S. & Prado, A. W. do (2018). Notes on the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida (Araneae, Araneidae) with description of four new species from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Zootaxa 4407(3): 321-345. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.3.2

Barrientos, J. A., Fernández-Pérez, J. & Naranjo, M. (2018). Un nuevo Troglohyphantes Joseph, 1881 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) de las Islas Canarias (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 3-10.

Barrientos, J. A. & Febrer, J. B. (2018). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 2: “adenda et corrigenda”. Descripción de tres especies nuevas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 39-51.

Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A. & Barrion, A. T. (2018). Discovery of the family Deinopidae from the Philippines, with descriptions of three new species of Deinopis Macleay, 1839. Philippine Entomologist 31(1, for 2017): 1-23. [published in March 2018]

Basumatary, P., Das, S., Kalita, J. & Brahma, D. (2018a). New record of Hyllus diardi (Walckenaer 1837) (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 35-37. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.35

Basumatary, P., Das, S., Kalita, J. & Brahma, D. (2018b). New record of Cyrtarachne nagasakiensis Strand, 1918 (Araneae: Araneidae) from India. Arachnology 17(9): 463-465. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.463

Bedoya-Róqueme, E., Galvis, W. & Martínez, L. (2018). First record of the genus Gypogyna Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Scopocirini) from Colombia. Peckhamia 161.1: 1-4.

Bedoya-Róqueme, E., Nadal, M. F. & Rubio, G. D. (2018). First record of the genus Helvetia Peckham & Peckham, 1894 (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from Colombia and extension of its distribution in Argentina. Peckhamia 175.1: 1-10.

Bellvert, A., Domènech, M., Cabrera-Cánoves, P. & Pujade-Villar, J. (2018). First record of Erigone autumnalis Emerton, 1882 (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae) for the Iberian Peninsula. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 73-74.

Bellvert, A. (2018). First records of some spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from La Palma (Spain: Canary Islands). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 101-105.

Bertani, R., Schimonsky, D. M. von, Gallão, J. E. & Bichuette, M. E. (2018). Four new troglophilic species of Loxosceles Heinecken & Lowe, 1832: contributions to the knowledge of recluse spiders from Brazilian caves (Araneae, Sicariidae). ZooKeys 806: 47-72. doi:10.3897/zookeys.806.27404

Beydizade, N., Shafaie, S. & Guseinov, E. (2018). A new Dysdera species (Araneae: Dysderidae) from Azerbaijan. Linzer Biologische Beiträge 50(2): 1111-1118.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2018). New species of the genus Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Zoology 46(1): 1-10. doi:10.3329/bjz.v46i1.37621

Blick, T. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). Three junior synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 237-238. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.07

Bonaldo, A. B., Lise, A. A., Ramírez, M. J. & Saturnino, R. (2018). Revisiting the spider genus Eutichurus Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Eutichuridae): new species and complementary descriptions. Zootaxa 4382(2): 231-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4382.2.6

Bonaldo, A. B., Pesquero, M. A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). On a new species of the spider genus Attacobius Mello-Leitão (Araneae: Corinnidae) from Brazilian Cerrado. Zootaxa 4508(3): 446-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.10

Bosco, J. M. & Chuang, A. (2018). A new species of grass spider, Agelenopsis riechertii, from the southwestern USA, with notes on its courtship behavior (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 4442(4): 579-583 & erratum 4472(3): 594-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4442.4.6

Bosmans, R. & Draney, M. L. (2018). Description of a new, probably introduced Zodarion species from the Everglades National Park, USA (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnology 17(7): 328-330. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.7.328

Bosmans, R. & Oger, P. (2018). On two cases of male dimorphism in dwarf spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 52-56. doi:10.30963/aramit5509

Bosmans, R., Kherbouche-Abrous, O., Benhalima, S. & Hervé, C. (2018). The genus Haplodrassus Chamberlin, 1922 in the Mediterranean and the Maghreb in particular (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4451(1): 1-67. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4451.1.1

Bosmans, R. & El-Hennawy, H. K. (2018). Mesiotelus alexandrinus (Simon, 1880) is a junior synonym of Mesiotelus tenuissimus (L. Koch, 1866) (Araneae: Liocranidae). Serket 16(2): 100-104.

Bosselaers, J. (2018a). Some spider observations in the Table Mountain area. The Spider Club News 34(1): 12-15.

Bosselaers, J. (2018b). Spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Gavarres (Catalonia, Spain) and the adjacent coastal region - part I: 2012-2013. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 33(Supplement): 1-103.

Boukan, A., Rajabi, R., Oshaghi, M. A., Rafinejad, J. & Seyyar, O. (2018). A contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Iran (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Serket 16(1): 23-26.

Breitling, R. (2018). Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9.

Brescovit, A. D., Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2018). On the spider genus Syspira Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Miturgidae) in the Caribbean: four new species from Dominican Republic. Zootaxa 4370(1): 57-76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4370.1.4

Brescovit, A. D., Cizauskas, I. & Mota, L. P. (2018). Seven new species of the spider genus Ochyrocera from caves in Floresta Nacional de Carajás, PA, Brazil (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae). ZooKeys 726: 87-130. doi:10.3897/zookeys.726.19778

Brescovit, A. D. & Cizauskas, I. (2018). A new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from caves in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, with notes on O. ibitipoca. Arachnology 17(9): 441-448. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.441

Cala-Riquelme, F., Quijano-Cuervo, L., Sabogal-González, A. & Agnarsson, I. (2018). New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 4442(3): 413-426. [second pdf is an Erratum, Zootaxa 4459(3): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.4

Caleb, J. T. D. (2018a). First record of Micaria dives (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from India. Indian Journal of Arachnology 6(2017): 51-54. [publ. Feb. 2018]

Caleb, J. T. D. & Kumar, V. (2018). Pellenes iva sp. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) with a distinct M-shaped central epigynal pocket from India. Halteres 9: 6-11.

Caleb, J. T. D., Sanap, R. V., Patel, K. G., Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2018a). First description of the female of Chrysilla volupe (Karsch, 1879) (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) from India, with notes on the species’ distribution and life history. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 143-153. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.06

Caleb, J. T. D., Ghosh, D. & Kumar, V. (2018). On two new synonyms of the orb-weaving spider Orsinome vethi (Hasselt, 1882) (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4444(3): 342-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4444.3.9

Caleb, J. T. D., Chatterjee, S., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. (2018b). A new generic record and two new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 7-12. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.7

Caleb, J. T. D., Sajan, S. K. & Kumar, V. (2018). New jumping spiders from the alpine meadows of the Valley of Flowers, western Himalayas, India (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 783: 113-124. doi:10.3897/zookeys.783.25225

Caleb, J. T. D., Acharya, S. & Kumar, V. (2018). From a century ago: a new spartaeine species from the Eastern Himalayas (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 232-236. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.06

Caleb, J. T. D., Mondal, K. & Kumar, V. (2018). A new species of the huntsman spider genus Pseudopoda Jäger (Araneae: Sparassidae) from the Eastern Himalayas, India. Halteres 9: 170-175. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1462247

Caleb, J. T. D. (2018b). Redescription of the tropical huntsman spider Olios lamarcki (Latreille, 1806) (Aranei: Sparassidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 339-343. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.10

Campuzano, E. F. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2018). A new species of the spider genus Wirada (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Mexico, with taxonomic notes on the genus and a key to the species. Zootaxa 4457(3): 495-500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.13

Canard, A. (2018). Une nouvelle espèce de Mygale (Araneae, Ctenizidae): Cteniza genevieveae n. sp. (♀) découverte au sud de la Corse. Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 30-35.

Cazanove, G. & Begue, J.-F. (2018). Observation d'une variabilité morphologique chez Arachnura scorpionoides Vinson, 1863 à La Réunion (Aranea, Araneidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 22-29.

Chamé-Vázquez, D., Ibarra-Núñez, G. & Jiménez, M. L. (2018). Redescription of Phonotimpus separatus Gertsch & Davis, 1940 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) and description of two new species of Phonotimpus from Mexico. Zootaxa 4407(2): 213-228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.2.3

Chatterjee, S., Caleb, J. T. D., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. (2018a). First report of Hyptiotes affinis Bösenberg & Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Uloboridae) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 13(1): 211-213.

Chatterjee, S., Caleb, J. T. D., Tyagi, K., Kundu, S. & Kumar, V. (2018b). First report of Psechrus Inflatus Bayer (Araneae: Psechridae) from India. Records of the Zoological Survey of India 117(4, for 2017): 391-393. [publ. in April 2018] doi:10.26515/rzsi/v117/i4/2017/121294

Chatzaki, M. (2018). On the ground spider genera Marjanus gen. n., Lasophorus gen. n. and Turkozelotes Kovblyuk & Seyyar, 2009 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Greece. Zootaxa 4392(3): 521-545. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4392.3.5

Cheng, D.-Q. & Piel, W. H. (2018). The origins of the Psechridae: web-building lycosoid spiders. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 125: 213-219. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.03.035

Coşar, İ., Danışman, T. & Kartaler, M. (2018). Three new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 6(2017): 34-38. [publ. Feb. 2018]

Coşar, İ. & Danışman, T. (2018). A new record of genus Inermocoelotes from Turkey (Araneae: Agelenidae). Serket 16(1): 47-49.

Crespo, L. C., Domènech, M., Enguídanos, A., Malumbres-Olarte, J., Cardoso, P., Moya-Laraño, J., Frías-López, C., Macías-Hernández, N., De Mas, E., Mazzuca, P., Mora, E., Opatova, V., Planas, E., Ribera, C., Roca-Cusachs, M., Ruiz, D., Sousa, P., Tonzo, V. & Arnedo, M. A. (2018). A DNA barcode-assisted annotated checklist of the spider (Arachnida, Araneae) communities associated to white oak woodlands in Spanish National Parks. Biodiversity Data Journal 6(e29443): 1-459. doi:10.3897/BDJ.6.e29443

Crews, S. C. (2018). Two new species of flattie spiders (Araneae: Selenopidae) and descriptions of undescribed males from the Caribbean. Zootaxa 4446(1): 125-137. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4446.1.9

Danışman, T., Coşar, İ. & Özgen, İ. (2018). Three new Clubiona records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Clubionidae). Serket 16(2): 90-95.

Deltshev, C. & Lazarov, S. (2018). Two new spider species, Harpactea simovi sp. n. and H. stoevi sp. n. (Araneae: Dysderidae), from the Balkan Peninsula. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 70(1): 3-7.

Deltshev, C. & Indzhov, S. (2018). Description of Histopona kurkai sp. n. with new data for the genus from the Balkan Peninsula (Arachnida, Araneae: Agelenidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 56: 36-39. doi:10.30963/aramit5606

Dentici, A. (2018). Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae) of the Maltese Archipelago. Biodiversity Journal 9(1): 85-88.

Dentici, A. & Amata, F. C. (2018). New faunistic data for the Sicilian aracnofauna [sic] (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 9(3): 271-276. doi:10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2018.9.3.271.276

Diksha, Khan, R. A., Sultana, A. & Das, S. K. (2018). A new spider record of genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from India. Serket 16(2): 96-99.

Dimitrov, D. (2018a). Description of Lepthyphantes rossitsae sp. n. from Turkey (Arachnida: Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 125(2): 277-281. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1414223

Dimitrov, D. (2018b). A contribution to the study of Turkish Dysderidae with description of a new Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae). Arachnology 17(9): 457-462. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.457

Dupérré, N. & Harms, D. (2018). Raising the dead: rediscovery and redescription of some lost spider types (Araneae) described by Eugène Simon. Evolutionary Systematics 2: 1-20. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.24122

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2018). Further discoveries on the minuscule spiders from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of seven new species of Anapis (Araneae: Anapidae). Zootaxa 4459(3): 482-506. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.3.4

Edwards, G. B. & Baert, L. (2018). New species, combinations, and records of jumping spiders in the Galápagos Islands (Araneae: Salticidae). Belgian Journal of Entomology 67: 1-27.

Esyunin, S. L. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2018). Taxonomic remarks on the genus Bogdocosa Ponomarev et Belosludtsev, 2008 (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 61-68. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.09

Fardiansah, R., Dupérré, N., Widyastuti, R., Potapov, A., Scheu, S. & Harms, D. (2018). Description of three new species of Aposphragisma Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 797: 71-85. doi:10.3897/zookeys.797.29364

Faúndez, E. I., Carvajal, M. A., Darquea-Schettini, D. & González-Cano, E. (2018). Nuevos registros de Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae: Theridiidae) de Sudamérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 52-54.

Ferrández, M. Á. & Carrillo, J. (2018). Prodidomus cfr rufus Hentz, 1847 (Araneae: Prodidomidae), una especie “enigmática”. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 123-126.

Ferrández, M. Á. (2018). Sobre el estatus genérico de Harpactea aeruginosa Barrientos, Espuny & Ascaso, 1994 (Araneae: Dysderidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 137-138.

Ferretti, N., Cavallo, P., Chaparro, J. C., Ríos-Tamayo, D., Seimon, T. A. & West, R. (2018). The Neotropical genus Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with the description of seven new species and the highest altitude record for the family. Journal of Natural History 52(29-30): 1927-1984. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1506521

FitzPatrick, M. J. & Sebata, S. (2018). The description of the female of Ibala minshullae FitzPatrick, 2009 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Arnoldia Zimbabwe 10(32): 368-371.

Fomichev, A. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Sidorov, V. V. (2018). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Aranei). 9. New data on the Parasyrisca potanini-group from Central Asia. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 155-168. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.07

Fomichev, A. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2018). New data on spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Iraq. Zoology in the Middle East 64(4): 329-339. doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1484018

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018). Five new species of the Acantholycosa-complex (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Mongolia. Zootaxa 4497(2): 271-284. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4497.2.7

Framenau, V. W. & Baehr, B. C. (2018). The wolf spider genus Artoria in New South Wales and the Australian Capital Territory, Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae, Artoriinae). Evolutionary Systematics 2: 169-241. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.30778

Frick, H. & Scharff, N. (2018). Description of one new genus and four new species of mynoglenine spiders from Africa (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Mynogleninae). European Journal of Taxonomy 415: 1-27. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.415

Fukushima, C. S. & Bertani, R. (2018). Two new species of Guyruita Guadanucci et al., 2007 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4370(4): 395-408. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.5

Gabriel, G. & Sherwood, D. (2018). Re-description of the male of Psalmopoeus pulcher Petrunkevitch, 1925 with the first description of the female (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(1): 8-18.

Gabriel, R. (2018). Some notes and observations on the identity and breeding of Psalmopoeus reduncus (Karsch, 1880) (Araneae: Aviculariinae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 32(3): 34-40.

Gallon, R. C. & Farr, G. (2018). Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1880), a Nesticidae spider new to Britain from Flat Holm Island. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 13-15.

Galvis, W., Pulgarín, O., Correa, E., Castrillón, I. & Acevedo, N. (2018). First record of the jumping spider genus Balmaceda Peckham & Peckham (Salticidae: Salticinae: Dendryphantini) from Colombia. Peckhamia 163.1: 1-5.

Galvis, W. (2018a). First record of Lyssomanes quadrinotatus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae) from Brazil and Colombia. Peckhamia 162.1: 1-4.

Galvis, W. (2018b). A new transfer in the genus Pachomius Peckham & Peckham (Araneae: Salticidae: Aelurillini). Peckhamia 164.1: 1-4.

Galvis, W., Flórez-Daza, E. & Pinzon, J. (2018). New records of the rare orb-weaving spider Rubrepeira rubronigra from Colombia, with notes on its natural history (Araneae: Araneidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 139-141.

Galvis, W. & Rheims, C. A. (2018). New species of Anaptomecus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Colombia, with an identification key for all known species of the genus. Zootaxa 4521(2): 294-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4521.2.11

Gargiulo, F. de F., Brescovit, A. D. & Lucas, S. M. (2018). Umbyquyra gen. nov., a new tarantula spider genus from the Neotropical region (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae), with a description of eight new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 457: 1-50. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.457

Gawande, B. & Bodkhe, A. (2018). Description of spider genus Scopoides as a new species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Wari Reserve Forest Area, Maharashtra, India. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 223-228.

Gaymard, M., Mazzia, C., Danflous, S., Capowiez, Y., Cornic, J.-F. & Lecigne, S. (2018). Découverte en France de Zodarion styliferum (Simon, 1870) (Araneae, Zodariidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 18-21.

Gaymard, M. & Lecigne, S. (2018). Contribution à la connaissance de l'aranéofaune (Araneae) du Gard et en particulier du massif des Gorges du Gardon (Occitanie, France). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 1: 1-39.

Giroti, A. M. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). The taxonomy of the American Ariadna Audouin (Araneae: Synspermiata: Segestriidae). Zootaxa 4400(1): 1-114. [& Erratum: 4438(3): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4400.1.1

Godwin, R. L., Opatova, V., Garrison, N. L., Hamilton, C. A. & Bond, J. E. (2018). Phylogeny of a cosmopolitan family of morphologically conserved trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) using Anchored Hybrid Enrichment, with a description of the family, Halonoproctidae Pocock 1901. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 303-313. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.008

González, M. (2018). Are multiple copulations harmful? Damage to male pedipalps in the funnel-web wolf spider Aglaoctenus lagotis (Araneae: Lycosidae). Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 162-164. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-017.1

Goyal, V. & Malik, V. (2018). First record of Hersilia orvakalensis (Araneae, Hersiliidae) from Haryana, India. Journal of Experimental Zoology India 21(1): 89-92.

Gücel, S., Fuller, Ö. Ö., Göçmen, B. & Kunt, K. B. (2018). Harpactea gunselorum sp. n., a new spider species from northern Cyprus (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 16(2): 80-86.

Gündüz, G. & Allahverdi, H. (2018a). Two new records of the genus Agroeca Westring, 1861 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Turkey. Munis Entomology and Zoology 13(1): 181-184.

Gündüz, G. & Allahverdi, H. (2018b). A new species record of Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 in Turkey (Araneae: Pholcidae). Serket 16(1): 27-29.

Guttenberger, J., Guttenberger, L. & Bauer, T. (2018). Prinerigone vagans new to Poland (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with comments on taxonomy and distribution. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 75-78. doi:10.30963/aramit5513

Harrison, S. E., Rix, M. G., Harvey, M. S. & Austin, A. D. (2018). Systematics of the Australian spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Blakistonia Hogg (Araneae: Idiopidae). Zootaxa 4518(1): 1-76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4518.1.1

Harvey, M. S., Hillyer, M. J., Main, B. Y., Moulds, T. A., Raven, R. J., Rix, M. G., Vink, C. & Huey, J. A. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111

Harvey, P. (2018). Editorial [S.R.S. News. No. 91] [Philodromus buxi]. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 142: 22.

Hazzi, N. A., Polotow, D., Brescovit, A. D., González-Obando, R. & Simó, M. (2018). Systematics and biogeography of Spinoctenus, a new genus of wandering spider from Colombia (Ctenidae). Invertebrate Systematics 32(1): 111-158. doi:10.1071/IS17022

Hedin, M., Derkarabetian, S., Ramírez, M. J., Vink, C. & Bond, J. E. (2018a). Phylogenomic reclassification of the world’s most venomous spiders (Mygalomorphae, Atracinae), with implications for venom evolution. Scientific Reports 8(1636): 1-7. doi:10.1038/s41598-018-19946-2

Hedin, M., Derkarabetian, S., Blair, J. & Paquin, P. (2018b). Sequence capture phylogenomics of eyeless Cicurina spiders from Texas caves, with emphasis on US federally-endangered species from Bexar County (Araneae, Hahniidae). ZooKeys 769: 49-76. doi:10.3897/zookeys.769.25814

Helsdingen, P. J. van, IJland, S. & Komnenov, M. (2018). Inventory of the spiders (Araneae) of the border region of northern Greece with Albania and FYR Macedonia. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 37: 5-23.

Henriques, S., Miñano, J., Pérez-Zarcos, L., Řezáč, M., Rodríguez, F., Tamajón Gómez, R. & Martínez-Avilés, J. (2018). First records of Loureedia (Araneae, Eresidae) from Europe, with the description of a new species and a survey of the genus. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 3-20.

Hill, D. E. (2018a). Notes on the jumping spiders Colonus puerperus (Hentz 1846) and Colonus sylvanus (Hentz 1846) in the southeastern United States (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida: Gophoini). Peckhamia 99.2: 1-63.

Hill, D. E. (2018b). Jumping spiders of the Phidippus princeps group in the southeastern United States (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantina). Peckhamia 169.1: 1-72.

Hirna, A. (2018). A new species and new records of the spider genus Taranucnus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians. Zootaxa 4429(2): 372-378. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4429.2.11

Huang, G. Q., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). A new species of the genus Hahnia C. L. Koch, 1841 (Araneae: Hahniidae) frim Guizhou, China. Sichuan Journal of Zoology 37(4): 456-460. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20170392

Huber, B. A. (2018). The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits. Zootaxa 4395(1): 1-178. [pdf in two parts] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4395.1.1

Huber, B. A., Eberle, J. & Dimitrov, D. (2018). The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 789: 51-101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781

Hüsser, M. (2018). A first phylogenetic analysis reveals a new arboreal tarantula genus from South America with description of a new species and two new species of Tapinauchenius Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae,Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 784: 59-93. doi:10.3897/zookeys.784.26521

Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2018). Three new species of Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Yunnan, China. Oriental Insects 52(3): 229-244. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1398115

Isaia, M., Kronestedt, T., Ballarin, F. & Chiarle, A. (2018). On the morphological separation of two sibling species: Pardosa proxima (P. vlijmi syn. nov.) and P. tenuipes (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 56: 6-16. doi:10.30963/aramit5602

Jacquet, C. (2018). Découverte en Seine-et-Marne (France) de Centromerus leruthi Fage, 1933 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 7-8.

Jäger, P. (2018a). The second true troglobiont Heteropoda species from a limestone cave system in Palawan, Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 17(8): 427-431. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.427

Jäger, P. (2018b). On the genus Systaria (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Southeast Asia: new species from caves and forests. Zootaxa 4504(4): 524-544. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4504.4.5

Jiang, T. Y., Zhao, Q. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Sixteen new species of the genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 from China, Myanmar,and Thailand (Sparassidae, Heteropodinae). ZooKeys 791: 107-161. doi:10.3897/zookeys.791.28137

Jiang, X. K., Chen, H. M. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). Spiders' diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, IV: Coelotine spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(2): 65-95. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.02.001

Jin, M., Ma, S. C. & Tu, L. H. (2018). A review of the Arcuphantes species with the genitalia of arcuatulus-type (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4425(3): 498-510. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4425.3.4

Jocqué, R. & Alderweireldt, M. (2018). New Chummidae (Araneae): quadrupling the size of the clade. European Journal of Taxonomy 412: 1-25. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.412

Jocqué, R. & Henrard, A. (2018). A revision of the genus Cicynethus Simon, 1910 (Araneae, Zodariidae), a tale ofcolour patterns. European Journal of Taxonomy 465: 1-35. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.465

Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018a). An expanded molecular phylogeny of metaine spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of new taxa from Taiwan and the Philippines. Invertebrate Systematics 32(2): 400-422. doi:10.1071/IS17058

Kallal, R. J., Fernández, R., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2018). A phylotranscriptomic backbone of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae) supported by multiple methodological approaches. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 126: 129-140. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2018.04.007

Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2018b). Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of retreat evolution. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(4): 1055-1141. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly014

Kamble, S. S., Bodkhe, A. K., Sarkar, I. D. & Kale, S. S. (2018). First record of Pritha nana Simon, 1868 (Aranae: Filistatidae) from India. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 145-154.

Kananbala, A., Bhubaneshwari, M. & Siliwal, M. (2018). A checklist of spiders (Arachnidae: Araneae) of Manipur, India with some first records and a new species Conothele khunthokhanbi (Family: Ctenizidae). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 6(5): 2209-2214.

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2018). A new genus and three new species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. European Journal of Taxonomy 444: 1-24. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.444

Kim, S. T., Yoo, J. S. & Lee, S. Y. (2018a). A review of Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922, with a new species and one unrecorded species (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 11(3): 416-421. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2018.07.007

Kim, S. T., Yoo, J. S. & Lee, S. Y. (2018b). Four new species of the genus Alloclubionoides (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Korea. Korean Journal of Environmental Biology 36(3): 336-344. doi:10.11626/KJEB.2018.36.3.336

Kioko, G. M., Kioko, E. N., Li, S. Q. & Li, L. Q. (2018). On four species of the genus Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Kenya. African Invertebrates 59(2): 111-126. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.26617

Komnenov, M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the floodplains of the Vjosa river, south Albania. Acta ZooBot Austria 155(1): 197-212.

Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2018). Adatok a nagy faggyúpók (Steatoda grossa [C. L. Koch, 1838]) biológiájához (Araneae: Theridiidae) [Data on the biology of the cupboard spider: Steatoda grossa (C. L. Koch, 1838), (Araneae, Theridiidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 17: 91-108.

Labarque, F. M., Pérez-González, A. & Griswold, C. E. (2018). Molecular phylogeny and revision of the false violin spiders (Araneae: Drymusidae) of Africa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 183(2): 390-430. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx088

Lapinski, W., Gabriel, R. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2018). Description of the female of Ami bladesi Pérez-Miles, Gabriel & Gallon, 2008 (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with notes on its distribution, ecology, and behaviour. Arachnology 17(8): 419-426. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.419

Lavery, A. & Snazell, R. G. (2018). Notiomaso spei (Araneae: Linyphiidae), a new spider species from South Georgia. Arachnology 17(8): 402-405. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.402

Lazarov, S. & Dimitrov, D. (2018). Description of Harpactea petrovi sp. n. (Araneae: Dysderidae) from Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 70(3): 293-296.

Le Divelec, R., Courtial, C. & Rollard, C. (2018). Cryptachaea blattea (Urquart, 1886) and Pseudomaro aenigmaticus (Denis, 1966): deux araignées nouvelles pour la France (Araneae: Theridiidae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 2-6.

Lecigne, S. (2018a). Gnaphosa ogeri n.sp., a new species from France (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33(2): 45-58.

Lecigne, S. (2018b). Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33(2): 59-99.

Lee, H. M. & Kim, J. P. (2018). A new species of the genus Xysticus C. L. Koch, 1835 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 34(1): 1-5.

Lee, H. M., Kim, J. P. & Kim, M. Y. (2018). Redescription of male Araneus variegatus (Yaginuma, 1960) (Araneae: Araneidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 34(1): 27-31.

Lee, H. M., Choi, H. S. & Kim, J. P. (2018). A newly recorded species of the genus Hitobia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 34(2): 1-6.

Lee, S. Y., Yoo, J. S., Song, J. H. & Kim, S. T. (2018). Three newly recorded Linyphiid spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Korea. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 11(1): 138-142. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2017.11.003

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Zhang, C. T. & Li, S. Q. (2018b). Sinodraconarius gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders from southwest China (Araneae, Agelenidae). ZooKeys 770: 117-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.770.22470

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Zhang, C. T. & Li, S. Q. (2018c). Nuconarius gen. n. and Hengconarius gen. n., two new genera of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from southwest China. Zootaxa 4457(2): 237-262. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.2.2

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Chen, H. F., Wu, Z. Y., Zhang, C. T. & Li, S. Q. (2018e). Guilotes, a new genus of Coelotinae spiders from Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China (Araneae, Agelenidae). ZooKeys 802: 1-17. doi:10.3897/ zookeys.802.29913

Li, D., Wang, C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2018f). Two new species of Yaginumaella (Araneae, Salticidae) from Wuling Mountain, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 488: 1-10. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.488

Li, F., Xu, X., Zhang, Z. T., Liu, F. X., Zhang, H. L. & Li, D. Q. (2018a). Two new species of the purse-web spider genus Atypus Latreille, 1804 from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Atypidae). ZooKeys 762: 47-57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.762.23282

Li, F. Y., Liu, C. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Ten new species of the spider genus Althepus Thorell, 1898 from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae). ZooKeys 776: 27-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.776.24432

Li, F. Y., Liu, C., Wongprom, P. & Li, S. Q. (2018d). Sixteen new species of the spider genus Althepus Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4471(3): 401-445. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4471.3.1

Li, J. Y., Liu, J. & Chen, J. (2018). A review of some Neriene spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China. Zootaxa 4513(1): 1-90. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4513.1.1

Lin, Y. C., Li, S. Q. & Jäger, P. (2018). Tetrablemmidae, a spider family newly recorded from Cambodia (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 777: 43-55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.777.24917

Lissner, J. & Chatzaki, M. (2018). A new spider species, Zelotes acarnanicus sp. n. (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), from mainland Greece. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 57-59. doi:10.30963/aramit5510

Lissner, J., Høye, T. T., Mosbech, A. & Johansen, K. L. (2018). First record of Oreoneta eskimopoint Saaristo & Marusik, 2004 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Greenland. Norwegian Journal of Entomology 65(1): 1-6.

Lissner, J. (2018a). Description of a new Lathys Simon, 1884 (Araneae: Dictynidae) from Majorca, Spain. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 129-137. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.04

Lissner, J. (2018b). A new pirate spider of the genus Ero (Araneae: Mimetidae) from the Canary Islands, with contributions on other Palaearctic species. Arachnology 17(8): 410-418. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.410

Liu, K., Meng, Z. Y., Xiao, Y. H. & Xu, X. (2018). Five new Lathys species (Araneae: Dictynidae) from South China and the first description of the male of Lathys spiralis Zhang, Hu & Zhang, 2012. Zootaxa 4500(2): 151-178. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4500.2.1

Logunov, D. V. (2018a). Description of two new species from the genera Stertinius Simon, 1890 and Uroballus Simon, 1902 (Aranei: Salticidae) from north Borneo. Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 57-60. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.08

Logunov, D. V. & Azarkina, G. N. (2018). Redefinition and partial revision of the genus Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 (Arachnida, Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 430: 1-126. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.430

Logunov, D. V. (2018b). A new ogre-faced spider species of the genus Deinopis MacLeay, 1839 from Vietnam (Aranei: Deinopidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 139-142. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.05

Logunov, D. V. (2018c). Three new spider species of the genus Miagrammopes O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1870 (Aranei, Uloboridae) from Southeast Asia. Euroasian Entomological Journal 17(4): 280-289. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.17.4.07

Lomazi, R. L., Araujo, D., Carvalho, L. S. & Schneider, M. C. (2018). Small pholcids (Araneae: Synspermiata) with big surprises: the lowest diploid number in spiders withmonocentric chromosomes. Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 45-49. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-033R2.1

Lotz, L. N. (2018). An update on the spider genus Hexophthalma (Araneae: Sicariidae) in the Afrotropical region, with descriptions of new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 424: 1-18. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.424

Lozano, J. A. (2018). Contribución al conocimiento de las Arañas (Araneae) de la provincia de Badajoz (Extremadura, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 21-30.

Lu, T., Koh, J. K. H., Zhang, Z. S. & Li, S. Q. (2018). A new Ovia species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Singapore, with the transfer of Pardosa alboannulata Yin et al., 1997. Zootaxa 4527(3): 436-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.12

Lüddecke, T., Krehenwinkel, H., Canning, G., Glaw, F., Longhorn, S. J., Tänzler, R., Wendt, I. & Vences, M. (2018). Discovering the silk road: Nuclear and mitochondrial sequence data resolve the phylogenetic relationships among theraphosid spider subfamilies. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 119: 63-70. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2017.10.015

Luna, M. de & García-Barrios, R. (2018). Primer registro del género Hyptiotes Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Uloboridae) de México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 33: 119-120.

Lyle, R. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Jocquestus, a new genus of trachelid sac spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4471(2): 309-333. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4471.2.4

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Lise, A. A. (2018). There and back again: More on the taxonomy of the crab spiders genus Epicadus (Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Zootaxa 4382(3): 501-530. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4382.3.4

Magalhaes, I. L. F. (2018). A new, relictual Antilloides from Mexican caves: first mainland record of the genus and revised placement of the fossil Misionella didicostae (Araneae: Filistatidae). Journal of Arachnology 46(2): 240-248. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-037.1

Magalhães, M. D. F. & Santos, A. J. (2018). The spider family Oecobiidae in Madagascar, including four new species and a new record. Zootaxa 4527(1): 37-48. [incl. Erratum 2019, 4554(4): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4527.1.3

Majagi, S. H., Talwar, S., Vijaykumar, K. & Kamble, S. (2018). First record of male Cyrba ocellata Kroneberg, 1875 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecology and Fisheries 11(1): 15-20.

Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018). First record of the spider genus Wolongia Zhu, Kim & Song, 1997 from India with the description of a new species (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4407(1): 145-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.1.13

Malamel, J. J. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018). On the taxonomic status of Leucauge granulata (Walckenaer, 1841); Leucauge argentata (Cambridge, 1869); Leucauge bengalensis Gravely, 1921; Leucauge tuberculata Wang, 1991: a case of synonymy (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 11(3): 408-415. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2018.04.006

Malamel, J. J. (2018). Species increments to the Indian Araneofauna (Arachnida, Araneae) from Pathiramanal Island. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 112-116.

Malik, S., Choudhury, S. R., Das, S. K. & Siliwal, M. (2018). First report of comb-footed spider Parasteatoda kompirensis (Bösenberg & Strand, 1906) (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India with comments on taxonomic variations. Serket 16(1): 41-44.

Mammola, S., Arnedo, M. A., Pantini, P., Piano, E., Chiappetta, N. & Isaia, M. (2018). Ecological speciation in darkness? Spatial niche partitioning in sibling subterranean spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Troglohyphantes). Invertebrate Systematics 32(5): 1069-1082. doi:10.1071/IS17090

Marsh, J. R., Baehr, B. C., Glatz, R. V. & Framenau, V. W. (2018). New species of tube web spiders of the genus Ariadna from South Australia (Araneae, Segestriidae). Evolutionary Systematics 2: 137-149. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.29172

Martínez, L., Brescovit, A. D. & Martinez, N. (2018). Five new species of the ghost spider genus Anyphaenoides Berland from Colombia (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae). Zootaxa 4425(2): 357-371. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4425.2.10

Martínez-Torres, D. & Galvis, W. (2018). First record of the genus Tapinillus Simon from Colombia, with a new synonym of T. caldensis García-Neto (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 32: 105-109.

Martins, P. H. & Santos, A. J. (2018). Morphology and taxonomy of the orb-weaving spider genus Mecynogea, and a peculiar species of Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4415(3): 423-451. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4415.3.2

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2018a). New data on Synaphosus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4374(2): 235-248. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4374.2.4

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2018b). First record of Eupoa pulchella (Araneae: Salticidae) in Laos with description of previously unknown female. Far Eastern Entomologist 354: 19-22. doi:10.25221/fee.354.3

Marusik, Y. M., Fomichev, A. A. & Vahtera, V. (2018). A new species of Chalcoscirtus (Araneae: Salticidae) from Altai, South Siberia, Russia. Entomologica Fennica 29(1): 39-48.

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Koponen, S. (2018). Redescription of the Himalayan Trachelas costatus (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4433(2): 390-392. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4433.2.11

Marusik, Y. M. & Larsen, N. (2018). A synopsis of African Metellina (Aranei, Tetragnathidae, Metainae) with description of a new species from South Africa. Vestnik Zoologii 52(3): 205-216. doi:10.2478/vzoo-2018-0021

Marusik, Y. M. (2018a). Redescription of Alopecosa albostriata (Araneae: Lycosidae) based on specimens from Siberia. Zootaxa 4482(2): 383-391. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.10

Marusik, Y. M. (2018b). Redescription of the Siberian species Pardosa jeniseica (Araneae: Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4497(1): 141-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4497.1.9

Marusik, Y. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2018). Redescription of enigmatic spider genus Stoliczka O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosoidea) based on the type species. Zootaxa 4497(2): 295-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4497.2.9

Marusik, Y. M. & Zonstein, S. L. (2018). Notes on the spider genus Steriphopus (Araneae: Palpimanidae), with redescription of the type species. Arachnology 17(9): 491-496. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.491

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2018c). A survey of the Porrhoclubiona Lohmander, 1944 from Central Asia (Araneae, Clubiondae [sic]). ZooKeys 802: 19-38. doi:10.3897/zookeys.802.30236

Marusik, Y. M. (2018c). The first record of Micaria bonneti (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) in Mongolia. Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 335-338. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.09

Marusik, Y. M., Nadolny, A. A. & Koponen, S. (2018). A survey of the Alopecosa cursor species group (Aranei: Lycosidae) from Asia. Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 348-362. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.12

Massanti, T. B., Cavichioli, R. R. & Ott, R. (2018). On the genus Chrysometa (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in south Brazil. Iheringia, Série Zoologia 108(e2018001): 1-11. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2018001

Mazzia, C., Cornic, J.-F., Capowiez, Y. & Bounias-Delacour, A. (2018). Zelotes metellus Roewer, 1928, nouvelle espèce pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 14-17.

Mendoza, J. I. & Francke, O. F. (2018). Five new cave-dwelling species of Hemirrhagus Simon 1903 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Theraphosinae), with notes on the generic distribution and novel morphological features. Zootaxa 4407(4): 451-482. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.4.1

Merrett, P. & Prince, M. P. (2018). Pelecopsis susannae (Simon, 1915) in Britain (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 17(8): 392-393. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.392

Mezőfi, L. & Markó, V. (2018). Some rare and remarkable spider species from Hungary (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 1-9. doi:10.30963/aramit5501

Mi, X. Q. & Wang, C. (2018). Chorizopesoides, a new genus of orb-weaver spider from China (Araneae: Araneidae). Oriental Insects 52(1): 79-87. doi:10.1080/00305316.2017.1347843

Michaud, A. & Forêt, J. (2018). Découverte en France d'Agyneta alpica Tanasevitch, 2000 et de Mughiphantes baebleri (Lessert, 1910) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 11-13.

Mikhailov, K. G. (2018a). Arachnid types in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. II. Aranei 1 (Arachnida). Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 95-105. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.12

Mikhailov, K. G. (2018b). Arachnid types in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. III. Aranei 2 (Arachnida). Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 177-186. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.10

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Miller, J. A., Freund, C., Rambonnet, L., Koets, L., Barth, N., Linden, C. van der, Geml, J., Schilthuizen, M., Burger, R. & Goossens, B. (2018). Dispatch from the field II: the mystery of the red and blue Opadometa male (Araneae, Tetragnathidae, Opadometa sarawakensis). Biodiversity Data Journal 6(e24777): 1-14. doi:10.3897/BDJ.6.e24777

Milne, M. A. & Wells, E. (2018). A new species of spider (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Islandiana) from a southern Indiana cave. Subterranean Biology 26: 19-26. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.26.25605

Milne, M. A. (2018). First description of the male of the linyphiid spider Disembolus corneliae (Chamberlin & Ivie, 1944) (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4526(3): 393-396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4526.3.9

Mirshamsi, O. (2018). A new species of Paracedicus Fet, 1993 from Iran (Aranei: Cybaeidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 344-347. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.11

Mirza, Z. A. & Mondal, A. (2018). A new genus Gravelyia with two species of the family Nemesiidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 43-48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.43

Montenegro V., R., Aguilera, M. A. & Casanueva, M. E. (2018). First record of Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 in Chile and description of two new species (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Spixiana 41(1): 13-25.

Morano, E. & Bonal, R. (2018). Araneus bonali sp. n., a novel lichen-patterned species found on oak trunks (Araneae, Araneidae). ZooKeys 779: 119-145. doi:10.3897/zookeys.779.26944

Mu, Y. & Zhang, F. (2018). Description of two new species of Paratus Simon, 1898 from southern China (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 4508(1): 141-150. [& erratum: 2019: Zootaxa 4563(3): 600] doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4508.1.9

Nadolny, A. A. (2018). Lost and found: Alopecosa krynickii (Araneae: Lycosidae) in the Crimea. Zootaxa 4394(4): 594-599. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.11

Nae, A., Sarbu, S. M. & Weiss, I. (2018). Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov. from Movile Cave, Romania (Araneae: Nesticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 22-24. doi:10.30963/aramit5503

Naumova, M. (2018). Review of the distribution of the genus Dolomedes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Pisauridae) on the Balkan Peninsula, with new records from Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 70(4): 479-486.

Nie, L., Yao, Z. Y., Pham, D. S. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Five new species of the spider genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Vietnam. Zootaxa 4486(4): 480-496. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4486.4.4

Obalı, İ. & Topçu, A. (2018). A new record and notes on wolf spiders from Cappadocia Region (Nevşehir) of Turkey (Araneae: Lycosidae). Serket 16(1): 7-11.

Okumura, K., Honki, K. & Ohba, S. (2018a). A new species of Callobius Chamberlin, 1947 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Amami-Ōshima Island, Japan. Arachnology 17(9): 466-468. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.466

Okumura, K.-I., Honki, K. & Ohba, S. (2018b). Male description of Coelotes nasensis Shimojana 2000 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Amami-ōshima Island, Japan. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 77-79. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.77

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Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2018a). Two new peacock spiders from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 160.1: 1-42.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2018b). Two new peacock spiders in the vespa group from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus). Peckhamia 168.1: 1-82.

Otto, S. & Japoshvili, G. (2018). The spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lagodekhi Reserve, Georgia: faunistic results of a transect study and an updated checklist. Arachnology 17(8): 375-391. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.375

Oxford, G. & Bolzern, A. (2018). Molecules v. morphology—is Eratigena atrica (Araneae: Agelenidae) one species or three?. Arachnology 17(7): 337-357. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.7.337

Özkütük, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Kunt, K. B., Karakaş Kiliç, G. & Elverici, M. (2018). Türkiye'den bilinen iki Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) türünün yeniden betimlenmesi [Redescription of two species of Harpactea Bristowe, 1939 (Araneae, Dysderidae) known from Turkey]. Anadolu University Journal of Science and Technology, C 7(1): 20-30. doi:10.18036/aubtdc.335037

Pantini, P. & Mazzoleni, F. (2018). I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69.

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Patil, V. K. & Uniyal, V. P. (2018a). Important notes on the spider Brettus cingulatus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Advanced Agricultural Research & Technology Journal 2(1): 104-107.

Paul, J., Sankaran, P. M., Sebastian, P. A. & Joseph, M. M. (2018). A review of the wasp mimicking spider genus Coenoptychus Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4413(1): 163-172. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4413.1.6

Pawaria, S., Bodkhe, A., Kamble, S., Uniyal, V. & Talwar, S. (2018). A new spider species Sphingius delakharae sp. n. (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Delakhari, Chhindwara District, Madhya Pradesh, India. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 161-171.

Pedroso, D. R., Giupponi, A. P. L. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2018). Comments on the genus Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850, with description of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). ZooKeys 771: 57-71. doi:10.3897/zookeys.771.24921

Perafán, C. & Valencia-Cuéllar, D. (2018). Proshapalopus marimbai, a new tarantula species (Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) and first genus record from Colombia. Tropical Zoology 31(4): 200-213. doi:10.1080/03946975.2018.1493181

Pereira-Filho, J. M. B., Saturnino, R. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2018). Five new species and novel descriptions of opposed sexes of four species of the spider genus Attacobius (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 4462(2): 211-228. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4462.2.3

Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2018). A wolf in sheep’s clothing: The description of a fly resembling jumping spider of the genus Scoturius Simon, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Huriini). PLoS One 13(1, 0190582): 1-12. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0190582

Polotow, D. & Griswold, C. (2018). Chinja, a new genus of spider from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Zootaxa 4472(3): 545-562. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.7

Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae). Zootaxa 4531(3): 353-373. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2

Ponomarev, A. V., Bastaev, V. V., Dubovikoff, D. A. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2018a). On a small collection of spiders (Aranei) from the Astrakhan Reserve (Russia). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 244-256. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.09

Ponomarev, A. V. (2018). A new species of spiders of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the north-east Pre-Caspian region. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14(1): 3-5. doi:10.23885/1814-3326-2018-14-1-3-5

Ponomarev, A. V., Shokhin, I. V., Terskov, E. N. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2018b). Preliminary data on the fauna of spiders (Aranei) of Taman Peninsula and Tuzla Island (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 14(2): 121-129. doi:10.23885/181433262018142-121129

Prado, A. W. do, Baptista, R. L. C. & Machado, M. (2018). Taxonomic review of Epicadinus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4459(2): 201-234. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.1

Prajapati, D. A., Malamel, J. J., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018). A new species of the jumping spider genus Icius Simon, 1876 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Chrysillini). Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 330-334. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.08

Prete, P. H., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). Three new species of the spider genus Plato and the new genus Cuacuba from caves of the states of Pará and Minas Gerais, Brazil (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae). ZooKeys 753: 107-162. doi:10.3897/zookeys.753.20805

Prince, M. P. (2018). Meta bourneti Simon, 1922: Tetragnathidae – first record for Devon. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 26-27.

Prószyński, J. (2018a). Review of the genus Hasarius (Araneae: Salticidae) - a taxonomic fiasco. Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 16-31. doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.2

Prószyński, J. (2018b). Review of genera Evarcha and Nigorella, with comments on Emertonius, Padilothorax [sic], Stagetillus, and description of five new genera and two new species (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 16: 130-179. doi:10.37828/em.2018.16.12

Prószyński, J., Lissner, J. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Taxonomic survey of the genera Euophrys, Pseudeuophrys and Talavera, with description of Euochin gen. n. (Araneae: Salticidae) and with proposals of a new research protocol. Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 26-74. doi:10.37828/em.2018.18.4

Prószyński, J., Noordam, A., Oger, P. & Schäfer, M. (2018). Delimitation of Mediterranean genus Iberattus gen. n., with comments on genus Saitis (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 18: 82-98. doi:10.37828/em.2018.18.6

Quasin, S., Siliwal, M. & Uniyal, V. P. (2018). New species of Trachelas (Araneae: Trachelidae) from Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve-Western Himalaya, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 11(1): 158-160. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2017.11.006

Quijano-Cuervo, L. & Galvis, W. (2018). A new species of Tenedos O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1897 (Araneae: Zodariidae: Storeninae) from Colombia. Arachnology 17(9): 480-484. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.480

Quijano-Cuervo, L. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). A new species of Antillorena from Colombia (Araneae: Zodariidae: Lachesaninae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 108(e2018039): 1-7. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2018039

Quispe-Colca, O. M. & López Tejeda, E. (2018). First record of the spider Negayan tarapaca Lopardo, 2005 (Araneae, Anyphaenidae) in Peru. Check List 14(1): 7-9. doi:10.15560/14.1.7

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2018a). Three new species of Aprusia (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sri Lanka with a phylogenetic analysis of the genus. Journal of Natural History 52(11-12): 713-738. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1444803

Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. & Benjamin, S. P. (2018b). Taxonomic descriptions of nine new species of the goblin spider genera Cavisternum, Grymeus, Ischnothyreus, Opopaea, Pelicinus and Silhouettella (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Sri Lanka. Evolutionary Systematics 2: 65-80. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.25200

Raven, R. J. & Hebron, W. (2018). A review of the water spider family Pisauridae in Australia and New Caledonia with descriptions of four new genera and 23 new species. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 60: 233-381. doi:10.17082/j.2204-1478.60.2018.2017-06

Řezáč, M., Růžička, V., Oger, P. & Řezáčová, V. (2018a). European species of the Gnaphosa alpica complex (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4370(3): 289-294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4370.3.9

Řezáč, M., Arnedo, M. A., Opatova, V., Musilová, J., Řezáčová, V. & Král, J. (2018b). Taxonomic revision and insights into the speciation mode of the spider Dysdera erythrina species-complex (Araneae : Dysderidae): sibling species with sympatric distributions. Invertebrate Systematics 32(1): 10-54. doi:10.1071/IS16071

Rheims, C. A. & Alayón, G. (2018). A new genus of minute Sparianthinae spiders from the Caribbean (Araneae, Sparassidae). ZooKeys 742: 13-22. doi:10.3897/zookeys.742.21819

Ribera, C. (2018). A new genus of nesticid spiders from western European Peninsulas (Araneae, Nesticidae). Zootaxa 4407(2): 229-240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4407.2.4

Ríos-Tamayo, D. & Goloboff, P. A. (2018). Taxonomic revision and morphology of the trapdoor spider genus Actinopus (Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae) in Argentina. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 419: 1-83. doi:10.1206/0003-0090-419.1.1

Rix, M. G., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018a). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1

Rix, M. G., Huey, J. A., Cooper, S. J. B., Austin, A. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2018b). Conservation systematics of the shield-backed trapdoor spiders of the nigrum-group (Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae, Idiosoma): integrative taxonomy reveals a diverse and threatened fauna from south-western Australia. ZooKeys 756: 1-121 & Suppl. (Atlas of male morphology: shield-backed trapdoor spiders (Idiosoma nigrum-group)). doi:10.3897/zookeys.756.24397

Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2018c). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus Bungulla (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): revealing a remarkable radiation of mygalomorph spiders from the Western Australian arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46(2): 249-344. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-057.1

Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018). Systematics of the giant spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Gaius Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini): documenting an iconic lineage of the Western Australian inland arid zone. Journal of Arachnology 46(3): 438-472. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-079.1

Rodrigues, B. V. B., Cizauskas, I. & Rheims, C. A. (2018). Description of Paracymbiomma gen. nov., a new genus of prodidomid spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae: Prodidomidae) including a new troglobite species. Zootaxa 4514(3): 301-331. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.1

Roger, J. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Mayotte Island, Comoros Archipelago: bibliographical synthesis and new field observations. Serket 16(3): 105-132.

Rückl, K. (2018). Gibbaranea gibbosa – a rare and endangered orb weaver?. Pavouk 45: 4-9.

Růžička, V. (2018). A review of the spider genus Porrhomma (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4481(1): 1-75. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4481.1.1

Salgado, A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2018). Two new species of Neonella Gertsch, 1936 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4394(4): 537-548. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4394.4.4

Salgueiro-Sepúlveda, F. J. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. (2018). New species of the orb-weaving spider genus Chrysometa (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from oak forests near of the Pico de Orizaba National Park (Veracruz, Mexico). Zootaxa 4450(3): 301-330. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.1

Samadi, J. P. (2018). Beobachtungen zur Lebensweise von Coremiocnemis hoggi West & Nunn 2010 in Malaysia. Arachne 23(4): 14-23.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2018). A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Nops MacLeay (Araneae: Caponiidae) with the first phylogenetic hypothesis for the Nopinae genera. Zootaxa 4427(1): 1-121. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4427.1.1

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018a). First record of Africactenus Hyatt, 1954 and redescriptions of two poorly known species of Ctenus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae) from India. Zootaxa 4388(3): 395-406. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.5

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018b). A new synonym in the subfamily Thrigmopoeinae Pocock, 1900 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). ZooKeys 749: 81-86. doi:10.3897/zookeys.749.23414

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018c). Phonognatha vicitra Sherriffs, 1928—a taxonomic misidentification of the orb-weaving spider Acusilas coccineus Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae). Zootaxa 4434(2): 391-395. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4434.2.12

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018d). New species of gnaphosid spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from the Western Ghats of India. Journal of Natural History 52(27-28): 1733-1744. doi:10.1080/00222933.2018.1478998

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2018). Redescription of Castianeira zetes Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4457(3): 487-490. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.3.11

Santanna, M. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2018). Five new species and new records of the spider genus Stemmops (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharinae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4524(2): 174-186. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.2

Santos, F. H. & Rheims, C. A. (2018). Taxonomic revision of the genus Gephyrellula Strand, 1932 (Arachnida, Araneae, Philodromidae). Zootaxa 4527(3): 381-391. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4527.3.7

Schäfer, M. & Breitling, R. (2018). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae, Salticidae) der griechischen Dodekanes-Insel Rhodos mit der Neubeschreibung von Pseudeuophrys rhodiensis und sechs weiteren Erstnachweisen. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 64-74. doi:10.30963/aramit5512

Schendel, V., Junghanns, A., Bilde, T. & Uhl, G. (2018). Comparative female genital morphology in Stegodyphus spiders (Araneae: Eresidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 273: 240-249. doi:10.1016/j.jcz.2018.01.011

Schwendinger, P. J. & Zamani, A. (2018). A new species of Phyxioschema (Araneae: Dipluridae) from Iran. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 125(2): 283-289. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1414225

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2018). First record of Rhomphaea labiata (Zhu & Song, 1991) from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 6(2): 2774-2776.

Šestáková, A., Mock, A., Christophoryová, J. & Gajdoš, P. (2018). Two subterranean-dwelling spiders new to Slovakia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 25-29. doi:10.30963/aramit5504

Seyyar, O., Harmanşah, İ. & Demir, H. (2018). Palpimanus orientalis Kulczyński, 1909 (Araneae: Palpimanidae) is a new record for Turkish spider fauna. Serket 16(2): 66-68.

Shafaie, S., Mirshamsi, O., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018a). A new Pardosa species from northern Iran (Araneae, Lycosidae). Zootaxa 4387(2): 350-364. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4387.2.6

Shafaie, S., Mirshamsi, O., Aliabadian, M., Moradmand, M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018b). Pardosa colchica Mcheidze, 1946: a first report from West Azerbaijan Province, Iran (Araneae: Lycosidae). Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 13(2, for 2017): 199-206. [publ. in July 2018] doi:10.22067/ijab.v13i2.70021

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S. J. (2018). A new species of Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 from Chile (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 33(3): 19-33.

Shi, J. H., Yang, Z. B., Zhao, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2018). The first description on the male of Macrothele yani, and supplemental descriptions of female (Araneae: Macrothelidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(2): 103-107. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.02.003

Slowik, J. (2018). Tenuiphantes zelatus (Zorsch), T. zibus (Zorsch), and Centromerus mariannae sp. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in the Pacific North. Insecta Mundi 649: 1-9.

Solanki, R., Siliwal, M. & Kumar, D. (2018). Transfer of Storena gujaratensis Tikader & Patel, 1975 to the genus Suffasia Jocqué, 1991 (Araneae: Zodariidae). Journal of Threatened Taxa 10(8): 12130-12132. doi:10.11609/jott.3452.10.8.12130-12132

Soliman, F. E., Moustafa, A. Y., Ismail, T. G. & El-Masry, S. M. (2018). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Jazirat Shandweel District, Sohag Governorate, Egypt. Serket 16(3): 133-160.

Souza, M. F. V. R. & Ferreira, R. L. (2018). A new highly troglomorphic Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4438(3): 575-587. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4438.3.9

Suárez, D. (2018). New records of spider species from the Canary Islands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55: 60-63. doi:10.30963/aramit5511

Suguro, T., Baba, Y. G. & Yamauchi, T. (2018). Phrurolithus splendidus Song & Zheng 1992 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae), new to Japanese fauna. Acta Arachnologica 67(1): 19-21. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.19

Suguro, T. (2018). Dendryphantes czekanowskii Prószyński 1979 (Araneae: Salticidae), new to Japanese fauna. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 91-94. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.91

Sun, L. Y., Lan, Q. & Zhang, F. (2018). First description of the male of Zelotes zhaoi (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(1): 17-21. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.01.04

Szabó, G. & Szinetár, C. (2018). Egy barlangi (troglofil) pókfaj, a Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1880) első magyarországi előfordulása (Araneae: Nesticidae) [First records of the troglofil spider species, Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1880) from Hungary (Araneae, Nesticidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 17: 109-115.

Talwar, S., Majagi, S., Bodkhe, A. & Kamble, S. (2018). New report of genus Euryeidon Dankittipakul & Jocque 2004 from India (Araneae: Zodariidae) with description of two new species. In: Rao, P. N., Saxena, A., Pandey, B. N. & Kulkarni, G. K. (eds.) Biodiversity and bioprospects: Indian scenario and perspectives. Today & Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers, New Delhi, pp. 67-79.

Tan, J. (2018). Argiope hoiseni, a new species of the spider genus Argiope (Araneae, Araneidae) from Peninsular Malaysia based on morphology and molecular analyses. Zootaxa 4457(1): 129-142. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4457.1.6

Tan, J. C. H., Koh, J. K. H. & Ang, C. S. P. (2018). New record of a pseudo-orb weaver, Fecenia ochracea (Doleschall, 1859) in Singapore (Araneae: Psechridae). Nature in Singapore 11: 15-26.

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018a). A survey of the genus Nasoona Locket, 1982 with the description of six new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 125(1): 87-100. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1196025

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018e). A new Nasoonaria Wunderlich & Song, 1995 from southern Vietnam (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 11(3): 459-461. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2018.05.002

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018b). A new Tapinocyba Simon, 1884 from southern China (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 169-171. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.08

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018c). On linyphiid spiders of Myanmar, with the description of a new genus and species (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 172-176. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.09

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018d). A new erigonine genus and species from West Malaysia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 408-412.

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018f). Two new species of the family Linyphiidae from the Himalayas (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 239-243. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.08

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018g). A new species of Dactylopisthes Simon, 1884 from Thailand (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 125(2): 217-219. doi:10.5281/zenodo.1414201

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018h). A new, remarkable erigonine spider genus from eastern Asia (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4524(2): 245-250. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4524.2.8

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2018i). The second, new species of Dactylopisthes Simon, 1884 from southeastern Asia (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(4): 363-365. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.4.13

Tanikawa, A. & Petcharad, B. (2018). A new species of Cyclosa (Araneae: Araneidae) from Southeast Asia. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 87-90. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.87

Taucare-Ríos, A. & Espinoza-Lagos, L. (2018). Nuevos aportes a la taxonomía y distribución de Polybetes martius (Nicolet) (Araneae: Sparassidae) en Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(1): 41-44.

Taucare-Ríos, A. & Cerpa, P. (2018). Potential distribution and new records of Mastophora gasteracanthoides (Nicolet) (Arachnida: Araneae) in Chile. Revista Chilena de Entomología 44(4): 487-491.

Thumar, R. H. & Dholakia, A. H. (2018). First record of Chrysilla volupe Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Salticidae) in agroecosystem of Navsari at Gujarat, India. Research Hub – International Multidisciplinary Research Journal 5(2, 10): 1-4.

Tian, J. H. & Tu, L. H. (2018). A new species of the spider genus Solenysa from China (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4531(1): 142-146. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4531.1.10

Tian, T., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2018). A new species of Pistius Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Wuling Mountains, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(1): 7-11. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.01.02

Tong, Y. F., Guan, X. J. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Two new species of the genus Trilacuna from Chongqing, China (Araneae, Oonopidae). ZooKeys 771: 41-56. doi:10.3897/zookeys.771.23158

Tong, Y. F., He, J. H. & Li, S. Q. (2018). A new species of the genus Ischnothyreus Simon, 1893 from Chongqing, China (Araneae, Oonopidae). Journal of Shenyang Normal University (Natural Science edition) 36(1): 10-15.

Tong, Y. F., Chen, H. F., Liu, S. J. & Li, S. Q. (2018). A new genus of oonopid spiders from Myanmar (Araneae, Oonopidae). ZooKeys 794: 31-43. doi:10.3897/zookeys.794.29156

Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2018a). New records of family Agelenidae for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Agelenidae). Indian Journal of Arachnology 6(2017): 20-22. [publ. Feb. 2018]

Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2018b). A new record of Salticus from Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 16(1): 45-46.

Turner, S. P., Longhorn, S. J., Hamilton, C. A., Gabriel, R., Pérez-Miles, F. & Vogler, A. P. (2018). Re-evaluating conservation priorities of New World tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in a molecular framework indicates nonmonophyly of the genera, Aphonopelma and Brachypelma. Systematics and Biodiversity 16(1): 89-107. doi:10.1080/14772000.2017.1346719

Valdez-Mondragón, A., Cortez-Roldán, M. R., Juárez-Sánchez, A. R. & Solís-Catalán, K. P. (2018). A new species of Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe (Araneae, Sicariidae), with updated distribution records and biogeographical comments for the species from Mexico, including a new record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour). ZooKeys 802: 39-66. doi:10.3897/zookeys.802.28445

Varol, İ. & Danışman, T. (2018a). Two new spider species of the family Dysderidae (Araneae) from Turkey. Entomological News 127(5): 418-425. doi:10.3157/021.127.0505

Varol, M. İ. & Danışman, T. (2018b). Dysdera neocretica Deeleman-Reinhold, 1988, a new record from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 16(2): 87-89.

Vidal, E. & Taberlet, J.-P. (2018). Découverte en France de Anyphaena furva Miller, 1967 (Araneae, Anyphaenidae). Revue Arachnologique 2 5: 9-10.

Wang, C. X., Li, S. Q. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). A new species of the spider genus Cangoderces (Araneae, Telemidae) from South Africa. African Invertebrates 59(1): 37-46. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.59.24190

Wang, L. Y., Chen, H. M., Wu, P. L., Zhang, F. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). Spider diversity in Fanjing Mountain Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China, II: Clubionidae (Araneae). Zoological Systematics 43(4): 317-333. doi:10.11865/zs.201827

Wang, Y. C. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018a). Draconarius manus sp. nov., the third species of D. pseudocoreanus-group from China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa 4418(4): 397-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4418.4.7

Wang, Y. C. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018b). Restudy of the coelotine genus Sinocoelotes Zhao & Li, 2016, with description of a new species and newly discovered male from Yunnan, China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(1): 1-6. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.01.01

Wesołowska, W. (2018a). A revision of the genus Pochytoides Berland & Millot, 1941 (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 418: 1-26. doi:10.582/ejt.2018.418

Wesołowska, W. (2018b). Redescription of Afromarengo lyrifera (Araneae: Salticidae: Ballinae). Arachnology 17(8): 399-401. doi:10.13156/arac.2017.17.8.399

Wesołowska, W. & Haddad, C. R. (2018). Further additions to the jumping spider fauna of South Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 68(4): 879-908. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.011

Wiśniewski, K., Rozwałka, R. & Wesołowska, W. (2018). Distribution, habitat affinities and phenology of the Micrargus herbigradus-species group (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Poland. Biológia (Bratislava) 73(2): 151-164. doi:10.2478/s11756-018-0026-5

Wood, H. M. & Scharff, N. (2018). A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1-96. doi:10.3897/zookeys.727.20222

Xu, M. J., Li, F. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Four new species of the spider genus Leclercera Deeleman-Reinhold (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Nepal. Zootaxa 4461(4): 558-572. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4461.4.6

Yamasaki, T., Yamaguchi, M., Phung, L. T. H., Huang, P. S. & Tso, I. M. (2018a). Redescription of Chrysilla lauta Thorell 1887 (Araneae: Salticidae) based on the comparison with the holotype, and DNA barcoding. Acta Arachnologica 27(1): 23-29. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.23

Yamasaki, T., Hashimoto, Y., Endo, T., Hyodo, F., Itioka, T. & Meleng, P. (2018b). New species of the ant-mimicking genus Myrmarachne MacLeay, 1839 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sarawak, Borneo. Zootaxa 4521(3): 335-356. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4521.3.2

Yamasaki, T. & Suguro, T. (2018). Taxonomic note on Salticus latidentatus (Araneae: Salticidae) – a spider species new to the fauna of Japan. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 81-85. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.81

Yan, F. H. & Lin, Y. C. (2018). A review of the spider genus Singaporemma (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4392(2): 329-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4392.2.6

Yang, Z. B., Zhao, Y., Zhang, C. G. & Yang, Z. Z. (2018). Two new species of the genus Macrothele from the southwest of China (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(2): 96-102. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.02.002

Yang, Z. Z. & Xu, X. (2018). Two new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell, 1878 (Mygalomorphae: Halonoproctidae) from China. Zootaxa 4442(1): 171-180. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4442.1.10

Yao, Z. Y., Zhu, K. L., Du, Z. H. & Li, S. Q. (2018). The Belisana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4425(2): 243-262. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4425.2.3

Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Belisana cas, a new spider species from Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, China (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoological Systematics 43(3): 334. doi:10.11865/zs.201825

Yu, H., Li, F. & Zhang, J. S. (2018). A new species of the genus Songthela from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Mesothelae: Liphistiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 42(6): 715-721. doi:10.3906/zoo-1807-39

Yu, K. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). On three species of the trapdoor spider genus Cyclocosmia from China (Araneae, Halonoproctidae). Zootaxa 4532(2): 248-256. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4532.2.4

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018a). New species and records of Filistatidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 27(2): 121-128. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.2.03

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Malek-Hosseini, M. J. (2018). A new species of Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from western Iran. Zootaxa 4444(1): 95-97. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4444.1.7

Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Mohammadi Kashani, G. & Karami, L. (2018a). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Araneae), part V. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 13(2, for 2017): 183-197. [publ. in July 2018] doi:10.22067/ijab.v13i2.72404

Zamani, A., Seiedy, M., Saboori, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018b). The spider genus Pterotricha in Iran, with the description of a new genus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). ZooKeys 777: 17-41. doi:10.3897/zookeys.777.26745

Zamani, A. (2018). The spider genus Pterotricha Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the United Arab Emirates. Evolutionary Systematics 2: 151-161. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.2.2998

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018b). A new species of hersiliid spiders (Aranei: Hersiliidae) from Iran. Euroasian Entomological Journal 17(4): 273-275. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.17.4.05

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2018c). The first report on the spider fauna (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Lut Desert, Iran. Acta Arachnologica 67(2): 67-75. doi:10.2476/asjaa.67.67

Zhang, B. S. & Zhang, F. (2018a). Two new species of the spider family Zodariidae from Laos. Zootaxa 4459(2): 285-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4459.2.4

Zhang, B. S. & Zhang, F. (2018b). Three new species of the spider genus Asceua from Malaysia (Araneae,Zodariidae). ZooKeys 789: 37-49. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.24261

Zhang, J. S., Yu, H. & Zhong, Y. (2018). Two new species of the Clubiona corticalis-group from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Zootaxa 4415(2): 393-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4415.2.10

Zhang, J. S., Zhang, G. R. & Yu, H. (2018). Four species of spider genus Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae, Eutichuridae) from Jinggang Mountains, Jiangxi Province, China. ZooKeys 762: 33-45. doi:10.3897/zookeys.762.23786

Zhang, L., Wang, L. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2018). The first record of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from China, with description of two new species. Zootaxa 4402(2): 363-372. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4402.2.8

Zhang, Q., Lu, J. S. & Chen, J. (2018). A new Sinocoelotes species from Wuling Mountains, China (Araneae: Agelenidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 27(1): 12-16. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2018.01.03

Zhang, Q. & Lin, Y. C. (2018). A review of the spider genus Sinanapis, with the description of a new species from Tibet (Araneae, Anapidae). ZooKeys 790: 45-61. doi:10.3897/zookeys.790.25793

Zhao, H. F., Dinh-Sac, P., Song, Y., Do, T.-D. & Li, S. Q. (2018a). Seven new species of Pinelema from Vietnam (Araneae, Telemidae). ZooKeys 734: 13-42. doi:10.3897/zookeys.734.15061

Zhao, H. F., Yao, Z. Y., Song, Y. & Li, S. Q. (2018b). Taxonomic study of the Pinelema bailongensis species group with descriptions of six new species from China (Araneae, Telemidae). ZooKeys 784: 7-57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.784.27758

Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2018). Taxonomic review of the Sinopoda okinawana-group (Araneae: Sparassidae) in China. Zootaxa 4388(3): 328-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4388.3.2

Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2018). Redescription of Ketambea nigripectoris (Oi, 1960) comb. nov. (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 42(4): 488-494. doi:10.3906/zoo-1803-29

Zhu, K. L., Yao, Z. Y., Bai, X. J. & Li, S. Q. (2018). Five new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China and Thailand. Zootaxa 4377(2): 235-253. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4377.2.5

Zonstein, S., Kunt, K. B. & Yağmur, E. A. (2018). A revision of the spider genus Raveniola (Araneae, Nemesiidae). I. Species from Western Asia. European Journal of Taxonomy 399: 1-93. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.399

Zonstein, S. (2018c). Notes on Entypesa (Araneae: Nemesiidae) in the Field Museum of Natural History, with descriptions of four new species from Madagascar. Arachnology 17(9): 469-479. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.17.9.469

Zonstein, S. (2018d). A revision of the spider genus Anemesia (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 485: 1-100. doi:10.5852/ejt.2018.485

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Grabolle, A. (2018). A remarkably small new species of Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae) from Portugal. Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 49-52. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.06

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2018). Redescription of the monotypic genus Scelidomachus Pocock, 1899 (Aranei: Palpimanidae) and its type species. Arthropoda Selecta 27(1): 53-56. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.1.07

Zonstein, S. L. (2018a). Redescription of the lost and found male holotype of Ummidia gandjinoi (Andreeva, 1968) (Araneae: Ctenizidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 48(1): 17-20.

Zonstein, S. L. (2018b). Notes on the spider genus Acontius, with a description of two new species from Guinea and Burundi (Aranei: Cyrtaucheniidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 219-226. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.04

Zonstein, S. L., Marusik, Y. M. & Koponen, S. (2018). A redescription of Ancylotrypa elongata Purcell, 1908, with first description of the male (Aranei: Cyrtaucheniidae). Arthropoda Selecta 27(3): 227-231. doi:10.15298/arthsel.27.3.05

Zonstein, S. L. (2018e). Complementary data on the genus Ischnocolus (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 48(1): 105-118. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2525281

2019

Akhtar, N., Tahir, H. M., Nadeem, A., Nawaz, F. & Summer, M. (2019). First report of Cyrtarachne nagasakiensis Strand, 1918: new record from Punjab, Pakistan (Aneaera [sic]: Araneidae). Journal of Entomology and Zoology Studies 7(6): 1030-1031.

Al-Khazali, A. M. & Jäger, P. (2019). Cebrennus sumer sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae): first record of the genus in Iraq. Arachnology 18(1): 37-39. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.37

Al-Khazali, A. M. & Hussein, A. N. (2019). First record of genus Gnaphosa Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Iraq. Serket 16(4): 161-165.

Allen, D. (2019). First record of the dictynid spider Nigma walckenaeri (Roewer, 1951) in Yorkshire. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 144: 29-30.

Almeida, M. Q., Salvatierra, L. & Morais, J. W. de (2019). A new species of Ami Pérez-Miles, 2008 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) from the Amazon rainforest, Brazil. Turkish Journal of Zoology 43(6): 641-643. doi:10.3906/zoo-1904-26

Arco, L. del, Barrientos, J. A., Pereira, L. F. & Benhadi-Marín, J. (2019). Sobre el hallazgo de Erigone dentosa O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) en la península ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 139-140.

Asalatha, P. & Prasadan, P. K. (2019). Two new records of genus Eriovixia Archer, 1951 (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Western Ghats, Wayanad region. Serket 16(4): 166-169.

Aung, K. P. P., Xu, X., Lwin, W. W., Sang, M. Z., Yu, L., Liu, H., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2019). Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Liphistius Schiödte, 1849 (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae) from Myanmar. ZooKeys 882: 29-39. doi:10.3897/zookeys.882.38811

Azarkina, G. N. & Zamani, A. (2019). The Aelurillina Simon, 1901 (Aranei: Salticidae) of Iran: a check-list and three new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 and Proszynskiana Logunov, 1996. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 83-97. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.07

Azarkina, G. N. & Trilikauskas, L. A. (2019). Halocosa gen. n., a new genus of Lycosidae (Araneae) from the Palaearctic, with a redescription of H. cereipes (L. Koch, 1878). Zootaxa 4629(4): 555-570. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4629.4.4

Azarkina, G. N. (2019). A new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Aranei: Salticidae) from Thailand, with the first description of the male of A. afghanus Azarkina, 2006. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 408-416. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.05

Baba, Y. G., Yamasaki, T. & Tanikawa, A. (2019). A new species of Siler (Araneae: Salticidae) from Japan. Arachnology 18(3): 253-257. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.253

Baehr, B. C., Schubert, J. & Harms, D. (2019). The brushed jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Jotus L. Koch, 1881) from eastern Australia. Evolutionary Systematics 3: 53-73. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.3.34496

Bai, Z. L., Li, F. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Ten new species of the spider genus Sinoderces Li & Li, 2017 from China, Laos and Thailand (Araneae, Psilodercidae). ZooKeys 886: 79-111. doi:10.3897/zookeys.886.39212

Baker, I. M., Ali, H. B, & Fadhil, H. Y. (2019). First record of the cellar spider genus Nita Huber & El-Hennawy, 2007 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Iraq. Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum 15(4): 403-411. doi:10.26842/binhm.7.2019.15.4.0403

Banerjee, I., Caleb, J. T. D. & Hill, D. E. (2019). New observations of the jumping spider Neobrettus tibialis (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeini) in West Bengal, India. Peckhamia 198.1: 1-9.

Barrientos, J. A., Brañas, N. & Mederos, J. (2019). Dos especies nuevas de Pholcidae (Araneae) de Marruecos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 3-12.

Barrientos, J. A., Arco, L. del, Castañé, C., Agustí, N., Jauset, A. M., Batuecas, I. & Alomar, Ó. (2019a). Arañas epiedáficas (Aranjeae [sic]) en plantaciones de melocotoneros del Segrià, el Bajo Cinca y La Litera (España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 41-50.

Barrientos, J. A., García-Sarrión, R., Uribarri, I., Prieto, C. E. & Lozano, J. A. (2019b). Algunas arañas (Araneae) del Monte Valcorchero (Plasencia, Cáceres, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 87-96.

Barrientos, J. A., García-López, V. & Soria, F.-J. (2019). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) del complejo Hundidero-Gato (Málaga, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 35: 3-8.

Basumatary, P., Chanda, D., Das, S., Kalita, J., Brahma, D., Basumatary, T., Basumatary, B. K. & Daimary, S. (2019). On a new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Eriovixia (Araneae: Araneidae) from India. Arachnology 18(1): 24-27. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.24

Basumatary, P. & Brahma, D. (2019a). A new species of the genus Meotipa Simon 1895 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 21-24. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.21

Basumatary, P. & Brahma, D. (2019b). A new species of Paraplectana Brito Capello, 1867 (Araneae: Araneidae) from north-east India. Arachnology 18(3): 276-279. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.276

Bauer, T., Feldmeier, S., Krehenwinkel, H., Wieczorrek, C., Reiser, N. & Breitling, R. (2019). Steatoda nobilis, a false widow on the rise: a synthesis of past and current distribution trends. NeoBiota 42: 19-43. doi:10.3897/neobiota.42.31582

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. & Nadal, M. F. (2019). First records of genus Metacyrba F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1901 (Araneae: Salticidae: Dendryphantini) from Colombia. Species 20: 76-83.

Benjamin, S. P. & Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. (2019a). Redescription of Tagulis granulosus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Sierra Leone. Arachnology 18(1): 22-23. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.22

Benjamin, S. P. & Ranasinghe, U. G. S. L. (2019b). Redescription of Boliscus decipiens, with a new synonym in Boliscus tuberculatus (Araneae: Thomisidae). Arachnology 18(2): 129-132. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.129

Bennett, R., Copley, C. & Copley, D. (2019). Cybaeus (Araneae: Cybaeidae): the adenes species group of the Californian clade. Zootaxa 4711(2): 245-274. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4711.2.2

Bink, J. (2019). Spinnentransport, voorbeelden van een Papendrechts bedrijf II: aanvullingen, inclusief een nieuwe importsoort voor Nederland [Spider transport, examples of a Papendrecht company II: additions, including a new imported species for the Netherlands]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 5-7.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2019a). A new record of two-tailed spider genus Hersilia Savigny, 1825 of the fauna of Bangladesh (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Serket 17(1): 15-20.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2019b). A new species of the jumping spider genus Harmochirus Simon, 1885 from Bangladesh (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 17(1): 21-26.

Bond, J. E. & Lamb, T. (2019). A new species of Pionothele from Gobabeb, Namibia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). ZooKeys 851: 17-25. doi:10.3897/zookeys.851.31802

Bosmans, R., Pantini, P., Loverre, P. & Addante, R. (2019a). New species and new records of ant-eating spiders from Mediterranean Europe (Araneae: Zodariidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 8-20. doi:10.30963/aramit5703

Bosmans, R., Hernández-Corral, J. & Lissner, J. (2019). Description of a new Canariphantes species from the Balearic Islands (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 18(2): 97-100. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.97

Bosmans, R., Van Keer, J., Russell-Smith, A., Hadjiconstantis, M., Komnenov, M., Bosselaers, J., Huber, S., McCowan, D., Snazell, R., Decae, A., Zoumides, C., Kielhorn, K.-H. & Oger, P. (2019b). Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian arachnological Society 34(Supplement): 1-173.

Breitling, R. (2019a). A barcode-based phylogenetic scaffold for Xysticus and its relatives (Araneae: Thomisidae: Coriarachnini). Ecologica Montenegrina 20: 198-206. doi:10.37828/em.2019.20.16

Breitling, R. (2019b). Barcode taxonomy at the genus level. Ecologica Montenegrina 21: 17-37. doi:10.37828/em.2019.21.2

Breitling, R. (2019c). How not to conduct a scientific debate: a counterpoint to the recent critique of the “pragmatic classification” of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 21: 62-69. doi:10.37828/em.2019.21.7

Breitling, R. (2019d). A little learning is a dangerous thing – on the usefulness of barcode data for genus-level taxonomy. Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 40-49. doi:10.37828/em.2019.22.4

Breitling, R. (2019e). Euophrys petrensis C. L. Koch, 1837, is a genuine member of the genus Talavera (Araneae: Salticidae). Bonn zoological Bulletin 68(2): 183-187. doi:10.20363/BZB-2019.68.2.183

Brescovit, A. D. & Cizauskas, I. (2019). Seven new species of the spider genus Matta Crosby from caves in the State of Minas Gerais, Brazil (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae). Zootaxa 4559(3): 401-444. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4559.3.1

Brescovit, A. D. & Oliveira, L. F. M. (2019). Three new species of Thaloe Brescovit (Araneae: Anyphaenidae: Anyphaeninae), with descriptions of the first known females of the genus. Zootaxa 4624(2): 256-266. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.2.8

Brescovit, A. D., Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A., Sobczak, J. C. M. S. M., Nóbrega, F. A. de Sousa, Oliveira, L. F. M., Arruda, I. D. P. & Sobczak, J. F. (2019a). Macrophyes pacoti n. sp. (Araneae: Anyphaenidae) from Brazilian Atlantic Forest, with notes on an araneopathogenic fungus. Zootaxa 4629(2): 294-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4629.2.12

Brescovit, A. D., Bonaldo, A. B., Ott, R. & Chavari, J. L. (2019b). To boldly go: on invasive goblin spiders in Brazil (Araneae, Oonopidae). Iheringia, Série Zoologia 109(e2019033): 1-20. doi:10.1590/1678-4766e2019033

Brown, G. R. & Henderson, C. L. (2019). First record of the Grass Cross Spider (Argiope catenulata) of the family Araneidae in Australia. Northern Territory Naturalist 29: 98-102.

Burkmar, R. & Gallon, R. (2019). Sibianor larae Logunov, 2001 a Salticidae new to Britain, with notes on Heliophanus dampfi Schenkel, 1923 and other spiders from Holcroft Moss SSSI. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 144: 2-12.

Caleb, J. T. D., Bera, C., Acharya, S. & Kumar, V. (2019a). Jumping spiders of the genus Pancorius Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini) from eastern India, with a description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 261-266. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.09

Caleb, J. T. D. (2019a). The Indian net-casting spider name Deinopis goalparaensis Tikader & Malhotrais a nomen dubium (Araneae: Deinopidae). Zootaxa 4668(1): 148-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4668.1.12

Caleb, J. T. D., Prajapati, D. A. & Ali, P. A. (2019). Redescription of Rudakius ludhianaensis (Tikader, 1974) (Aranei: Salticidae), with notes on its synonymy and distribution. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 417-423. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.06

Caleb, J. T. D., Sankaran, P. M., Nafin, K. S. & Acharya, S. (2019b). Indopadilla, a new jumping spider genus from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(4): 567-574. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.10

Caleb, J. T. D. & Acharya, S. (2019). First record of the genus Schenkelia Lessert 1927 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 73-75. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.73

Caleb, J. T. D. (2019b). An annotated checklist of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of India. AkiNik Publications, New Delhi, 75 pp.

Campuzano, E. F., Ibarra-Núñez, G., Gómez-Rodríguez, J. F. & Angulo-Ordoñes, G. G. (2019). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the tropical mountain cloud forest from El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, Mexico. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 35(e3502092): 1-19. doi:10.21829/azm.2019.3502092

Canard, A. & Cruveillier, M. (2019). Révision des Alopecosa de France du groupe «accentuata/barbipes/farinosa» (Lycosidae, Araneae), données et distribution. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 2: 2-19.

Carvalho, T. G. de & Gasnier, T. R. J. (2019). Illustrated inventory of spiders from Amazonas state, Brazil: 94 understory species from a forest fragment in Manaus. Scientia Amazonia 8(2): CB1-CB53.

Castanheira, P. de S., Pérez-González, A., Prado, A. W. do & Baptista, R. L. C. (2019a). Three new species of Ochyrocera (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from Southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4657(3): 523-544. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.6

Castanheira, P. de S., Baptista, R. L. C., Pizzetti, D. D. P. & Teixeira, R. A. (2019b). Contributions to the taxonomy of the long-jawed orb-weaving spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) in the Neotropical region, with comments on the morphology of the chelicerae. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(2): 465-505. doi:10.3897/zse.95.36762

Castanheira, P. de S., Didham, R. K., Vink, C. & Framenau, V. W. (2019c). The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae, Arachnura) in Australia and New Zealand. Zootaxa 4706(1): 147-170. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4706.1.6

Cazanove, G. (2019). Premier signalement de Latrodectus geometricus (Araneae, Theridiidae) sur l’île de La Réunion (Océan Indien) avec quelques notes sur son élevage. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 10-15.

Chamé-Vázquez, D. & Ibarra-Núñez, G. (2019). A new species of Phonotimpus Gertsch & Davis, 1940 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from Mexico. Zootaxa 4545(1): 146-150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.1.10

Chang, W.-J., Li, F. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019a). Three new species of the spider genus Luzonacera Li & Li, 2017 from Philippines (Araneae, Psilodercidae). ZooKeys 822: 17-31. doi:10.3897/zookeys.822.30927

Chang, W.-J., Li, F. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019b). On the genus Flexicrurum Tong & Li, 2007 (Araneae, Psilodercidae) from Hainan Island, China. ZooKeys 855: 15-30. doi:10.3897/zookeys.855.34383

Chang, W.-J., Li, F. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019c). On the genera Qiongocera and Relictocera (Araneae,Psilodercidae) from Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 862: 61-79.

Chang, W.-J. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Fourteen new species of the spider genus Thaiderces from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae). ZooKeys 869: 103-146. doi:10.3897/zookeys.869.35546

Chatzaki, M. & Komnenov, M. (2019). Description of a new Chaetopelma (Araneae, Theraphosidae) species from Crete and a re-description of Macrothele cretica Kulczyński, 1903 (Araneae, Macrothelidae). Zootaxa 4544(2): 269-284. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4544.2.7

Chatzaki, M. & Van Keer, J. (2019). Ground spiders (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae) from the Greek islands Rodos, Symi and Karpathos, with the description of new species. Zootaxa 4646(3): 434-460. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4646.3.2

Chen, Y. & Zhang, F. (2019). A newly recorded family Caponiidae in China (Arachnida, Araneae). Journal of Hebei University, Natural Science Edition 39(4): 395-397. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1000-1565.2019.04.010

Choi, M. B., Lee, S. Y., Yoo, J. S., Jun, J. & Kwon, O. (2019). First record of the western black widow spider Latrodectus hesperus Chamberlin & Ivie, 1935 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in South Korea. Entomological Research 49(3): 141-146. doi:10.1111/1748-5967.12350

Coşar, İ. & Danışman, T. (2019). A new Zelotes record from Turkey (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Serket 17(1): 58-60.

Danışman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2019a). Occurence of the alien spider Mermessus denticulatus (Banks, 1898) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Turkey. Munis Entomology and Zoology 14(1): 80-82.

Danışman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2019b). Tapinopa longidens (Wider, 1834), a new spider record belonging to the family Linyphiidae from Turkey. Serket 16(4): 176-178.

Danışman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2019c). Occurrence of Archaraeoncus prospiciens (Thorell, 1875) (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in Turkey. Serket 17(1): 39-41.

Das, S., Kalita, J. & Mahanta, N. (2019). New report of Phrynarachne ceylonica (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1884) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Assam, India. International Journal of Scientific Research and Reviews 8(2): 985-990.

Das, S. K., Diksha & Khan, R. A. (2019). A new trapdoor spider species of the genus Idiops Perty, 1833 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Idiopidae) from Odisha, India. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(4): 678-681. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.09.002

Decae, A., Mammola, S., Rizzo, P. & Isaia, M. (2019). Systematics, ecology and distribution of the mygalomorph spider genus Cteniza Latreille, 1829 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae). Zootaxa 4550(4): 499-524. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4550.4.2

Decae, A. E. (2019). Three new species in the genus Latouchia Pocock, 1901 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Halonoproctidae) from Vietnam. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 275-289. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463467

Déjean, S., Danflous, S. & Oger, P. (2019). Le genre Leptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) dans les Hautes-Pyrénées (France). Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 2-9.

Déjean, S. (2019). Découverte de Panamomops inconspicuus (Miller & Valesova, 1964) (Araneae, Linyphiidae) dans le massif des Albères (Pyrénées-Orientales), espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 16-19.

Déjean, S. & Villepoux, O. (2019). Découverte d’Arctosa renidescens Buchar & Thaler, 1995 (Araneae, Lycosidae), espèce nouvelle pour la faune de France, dans le Parc Naturel Régional du Queyras. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 20-23.

Demir, H. & Seyyar, O. (2019). New locality record of Xysticus pseudolanio Wunderlich, 1995 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Turkey. Serket 17(1): 48-50.

Dentici, A. (2019). Third contribution to the knowledge of Sicilian spider fauna (Arachnida Araneae). Biodiversity Journal 10(2): 117-120. doi:10.31396/Biodiv.Jour.2019.10.2.117.120

Dimitrov, D., Deltshev, C. & Lazarov, S. (2019). Description of Harpactea popovi sp. n. from Bulgaria with further taxonomic notes on related species (Araneae, Dysderidae). Zootaxa 4568(3): 593-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4568.3.13

Dimitrov, D. & Deltshev, C. (2019). Contribution to the study of the genus Centromerus in Turkey, with the description of a new species of blind spiders (Arachnida, Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 261-267. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463463

Ding, W., Zhong, Y. & Liu, J. (2019). Gnathopalystes aureolus (He & Hu, 2000): new combination for Pseudopoda aureola (Araneae, Sparassidae), with the first description of the female from Hainan Island, China. ZooKeys 817: 95-103. doi:10.3897/zookeys.817.29868

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Foord, S. H. (2019). New records of Cladomelea from South Africa, including the first records of C. longipes (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1877) (Araneae, Araneidae) outside its type locality. Check List 15(6): 1071-1075.

Douglas, J. C. (2019). A new turreted spider of the genus Arkys (Araneae: Arkyidae) from Tasmania. Record of the Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery 118: 3-9.

Draney, M. L., Milne, M. A., Ulyshen, M. & Madriz, G. (2019). Revision of the spider genus Epiceraticelus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) with a description of a new species. Zootaxa 4646(1): 189-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4646.1.11

El-Hennawy, H. K. & Sallam, G. M. E. (2019). Selenops spiders in Egypt (Araneae: Selenopidae). Serket 17(1): 68-75.

Espejo, Y. M. G. P., Kochalka, J. A. & Barrett, B. R. G. (2019). A new species and two new records of the ground spider genus Apopyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Paraguay. Zootaxa 4664(4): 594-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4664.4.12

Esyunin, S. L. & Zamani, A. (2019). Taxonomic remarks on two Drassodes species (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from Iran. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 63-71. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.63

Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Guadanucci, J. P. L. & DaSilva, M. B. (2019). Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Tmesiphantes Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 17(7): 650-668. doi:10.1080/14772000.2019.1685021

Faleiro, B. T. & Santos, A. J. (2019). Revision of the crab-spiders of the genus Runcinioides Mello-Leitão, 1929 (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4567(1): 25-46. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4567.1.2

Fardiansah, R., Dupérré, N., Widyastuti, R., Potapov, A., Scheu, S. & Harms, D. (2019). Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia. ZooKeys 820: 95-118. doi:10.3897/zookeys.820.29363

Feng, C. C., Miller, J. A., Lin, Y. C. & Shu, Y. F. (2019). Further study of two Chinese cave spiders (Araneae, Mysmenidae), with description of a new genus. ZooKeys 870: 77-100. doi:10.3897/zookeys.870.35971

Feng, C. C. & Lin, Y. C. (2019). Three new species of the genus Coddingtonia from Asia (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae). ZooKeys 886: 113-126. doi:10.3897/zookeys.886.35492

Ferretti, N., Copperi, S. & Pompozzi, G. (2019). Discovery of an isolated population of the dwarf tarantula Homoeomma uruguayense (Araneae, Theraphosidae) in central Argentina. Caldasia 41(2): 436-441. doi:10.15446/caldasia.v41n2.71066

Ferretti, N. E., Soresi, D. S., González, A. & Arnedo, M. A. (2019). An integrative approach unveils speciation within the threatened spider Calathotarsus simoni (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Migidae). Systematics and Biodiversity 17(5): 439-457. doi:10.1080/14772000.2019.1643423

Ferretti, N. E., Ríos-Tamayo, D. & Goloboff, P. A. (2019). Four new species of Goloboffia (Mygalomorphae: Migidae) from Chile. Zootaxa 4712(2): 251-268. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.5

Foley, S., Lüddecke, T., Chen, D. Q., Krehenwinkel, H., Künzel, S., Longhorn, S., Wendt, I., Wirth, V. von, Tänzler, R., Vences, M. & Piel, W. H. (2019). Tarantula phylogenomics: A robust phylogeny of deep theraphosid clades inferred from transcriptome data sheds light on the prickly issue of urticating setae evolution. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 140(106573): 1-12. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106573

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019a). A new species of the genus Berlandina (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from Kazakhstan. Far Eastern Entomologist 390: 13-18. doi:10.25221/fee.390.2

Fomichev, A. A. (2019). A survey of East Palaearctic Gnaphosidae (Araneae). 10. Three new Gnaphosa species from the Dzhungarian Alatau Mountains (Eastern Kazakhstan). Zootaxa 4706(4): 569-579. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4706.4.6

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019b). A new species of Lachesana Strand, 1932 (Aranei: Zodariidae) from southern Kazakhstan. Arthropoda Selecta 28(4): 556-561. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.08

Framenau, V. W. (2019). Generic and family transfers, and nomina dubia for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) in the Australasian, Oriental and Pacific regions. Evolutionary Systematics 3: 1-27. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.3.33454

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019a). A new genus and species of theraphosid spider from Sarawak, Borneo (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(1): 19-34.

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019b). The revised taxonomic placement of the three species of Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 described by R. I. Pocock in 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 40-46. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.40

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019c). The revised taxonomic placement of some arboreal Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895 with description of a new species of Omothymus Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 137-147. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.137

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019d). Ontogenetic colour change in the Venezuelan theraphosine Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 146: 8-10.

Gajdoš, P., Černecká, Ľ. & Šestáková, A. (2019). Pannonic salt marshes revealed six new spiders to Slovakia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Linyphiidae, Lycosidae, Theridiidae). Biológia (Bratislava) 74(1): 53-64. doi:10.2478/s11756-018-0145-z

Gan, J. H., Mi, X. Q., Irfan, M., Peng, X. J., Ran, S. & Zhan, Y. (2019). Three new species of the genus Mimetus Hentz, 1832 (Araneae: Mimetidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China. European Journal of Taxonomy 525: 1-13. doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.525

García, A. F., Martínez, L. & Ahumada-C., D. (2019). A new species of the armored spider genus Caraimatta Lehtinen, 1981 from Colombia (Araneae: Synspermiata: Tetrablemmidae). Zootaxa 4619(1): 168-176. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4619.1.8

García, J. & Suárez, D. (2019). A spider survey in a protected area of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain) reveals five new records for the island. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 69-76. doi:10.30963/aramit5713

García-Villafuerte, M. A. & Brescovit, A. D. (2019). Nuevo registro de sinantropía de Filistatoides insignis (Araneae: Filistatidae) en México y actualización del listado de arañas actuales de Chiapas. Acta Zoológica Mexicana (n. s.) 35(e3501136): 1-8. doi:10.21829/azm.2019.3501136

Gücel, S., Charalambidou, I., Göçmen, B. & Kunt, K. B. (2019). New data of spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of Cyprus. 1. Dysderidae found in caves. ZooKeys 825: 43-53. doi:10.3897/zookeys.825.29029

Guerrero-Fuentes, D. R. & Francke, O. F. (2019). Taxonomic revision of Anicius Chamberlin, 1925 (Araneae: Salticidae), with five new species of jumping spiders from Mexico. Zootaxa 4638(4): 485-506. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.2

Haddad, C. R., Henrard, A. & Jocqué, R. (2019). Revision of the ant-eating spider genus Mallinus Simon, 1893 (Araneae, Zodariidae). ZooKeys 822: 141-158. doi:10.3897/zookeys.822.29835

Haddad, C. R. (2019). Transfer of the Namibian Argistes africanus Simon, 1910 (Araneae: Liocranidae) to Afroceto Lyle & Haddad, 2010 (Trachelidae), with a new synonym. Zootaxa 4571(3): 446-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4571.3.13

Haddad, C. R. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). Clarifying the taxonomic status and distributions of the spider species collected during the Leonhard Schultze expeditions in western and central southern Africa (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 4608(3): 451-483. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4608.3.3

He, A. L., Liu, J. X., Xu, X. A., Yin, H. Q. & Peng, X. J. (2019). Description of three new species of spider genus Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978 from caves of Hunan Province, China (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Zootaxa 4554(2): 584-600. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.10

Hedin, M., Derkarabetian, S., Alfaro, A., Ramírez, M. J. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Phylogenomic analysis and revised classification of atypoid mygalomorph spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae), with notes on arachnid ultraconserved element loci. PeerJ 7(e6864): 1-24. doi:10.7717/peerj.6864

Helsdingen, P. J. van (2019). Faunistiek en dynamiek in de spinnenwereld [Faunistics and dynamics in the spider world]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 41-43.

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Hirna, A. (2019). Gnaphosa badia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in the Ukrainian Carpathians with comments on its distribution. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 54-59. doi:10.30963/aramit5710

Höfer, H., Meyer, F., Bauer, T., Bayer, S., Harry, I. & Kastner, L. (2019). Überraschende Erstnachweise und neue Daten zu seltenen Spinnenarten (Arachnida: Araneae) aus Blockhalden in Baden-Württemberg. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 62-84. doi:10.30963/aramit5811

Hu, Y. L., Liu, J., Li, H. C. & Yu, H. (2019). Redescription of two newly recorded Cheiracanthium species from Guizhou (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae). Journal of Guizhou Education University 34(12, 2018): 31-36. [published in June 2019] doi:10.13391/j.cnki.issn.1674-7798.2018.12.007

Hu, Z. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). First description of the male of Iwogumoa dalianensis (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Dalian, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 52-54. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.006

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Huber, B. A. & Carvalho, L. S. (2019). Filling the gaps: descriptions of unnamed species included in the latest molecular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4546(1): 1-96. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4546.1.1

Huber, B. A. (2019). The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4550(1): 1-57. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1

Huey, J. A., Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D., Hillyer, M. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2019). Open-holed trapdoor spiders of the genus Teyl (Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anamini) from Western Australia’s Pilbara bioregion: a new species and expanded phylogenetic assessment. Zootaxa 4674(3): 349-362. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4674.3.3

Hurni-Cranston, T. & Hill, D. E. (2019). Notes on the jumping spider Myrmarachne exasperans (Araneae: Salticidae: Astioida: Myrmarachnini) in Bali, a possible mimic of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae: Cryptini: Goryphus). Peckhamia 176.2: 1-28.

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Ileperuma Arachchi, I. S. & Benjamin, S. P. (2019b). The crab spider genus Tarrocanus Simon, 1895 with notes on the genera Alcimochthes Simon, 1895 and Domatha Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4613(3): 587-593. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.10

Irfan, M., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2019). Zhezhoulinyphia gen. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Yunnan, China. ZooKeys 862: 43-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.862.31406

Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019a). Herbiphantes Tanasevitch, 1992 and Labullinyphia van Helsdingen, 1985 (Araneae, Linyphiidae), two newly recorded spider genera from the Gaoligong Mountains in China with the description of two new species. Zootaxa 4638(4): 547-561. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4638.4.5

Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019b). The genus Parbatthorax Tanasevitch, 2019 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) new to China, with a new species from the Gaoligong Mountains. European Journal of Taxonomy 555: 1-19. doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.555

Jäger, P. (2019a). Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4560(3): 441-462. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4560.3.2

Jäger, P. & Dimitrov, D. (2019). Otacilia fansipan spec. nov., the second congener recorded from Vietnam (Arachnida: Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Zootaxa 4464(2): 233-240. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4664.2.5

Jäger, P. (2019b). Selenops ef sp. nov. (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Cambodia: first record from an Asian cave. Arachnology 18(3): 245-247. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.245

Jiang, X. K., Yu, Z. G., Guo, X. & Chen, H. M. (2019). Two new species of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 from southwest China (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Journal of Dali University 4(12): 58-62. doi:10.3969/j.issn.2096-2266.2019.12.010

Jin, C., Zhang, H. L. & Zhang, F. (2019). First records of the corinnid genera Allomedmassa Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2014 and Medmassa Simon, 1887 from China, with the description of a new genus (Araneae: Corinnidae). Zootaxa 4585(3): 459-477. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.3

Jocqué, R., Jocque, M., Stock, W., Rin, N. & Henrard, A. (2019). The new Southeast Asian genus Cambonilla gen. nov. (Zodariidae, Araneae): ‘bis repetita placent’. European Journal of Taxonomy 501: 1-24. doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.501

Kaderka, R. (2019). The genus Cyriocosmus Simon 1903 and two new species from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Revista Peruana de Biología 26(4): 543-550. doi:10.15381/rpb.v26i4.17215

Kaldari, R. (2019). New records of the exotic jumping spider Pseudeuophrys erratica (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini) in the United States. Peckhamia 188.1: 1-3.

Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2019). Evolution of the male palp morphology of the orb-weaver hunting spider Chorizopes (Araneae: Araneidae) revisited on a new phylogeny of Araneidae, and description of a third species from Madagascar. Invertebrate Systematics 33(3): 473-487. doi:10.1071/IS18061

Kamura, T. (2019). Two newly recorded species of the family Gnaphosidae (Araneae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 7-10. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.7

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2019). Multilocus genetic and morphological phylogenetic analysis reveals a radiation of shiny South Asian jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 839: 1-81. doi:10.3897/zookeys.839.28312

Khadzhieva, U. A., Dragan, S. V. & Pospelov, I. G. (2019). Materials to the fauna of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Ergaki Natural Park. Proceedings of the Mordovia State Nature Reserve 22: 186-192.

Khasayeva, S. I. & Huseynov, E. F. (2019). New records of spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) from Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18(5): 357-361. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.18.5.09

Khoza, T. T. & Lyle, R. (2019). Four new species of the sac spider genus Planochelas Lyle & Haddad, 2009 (Araneae, Trachelidae) from central and southern Africa. African Invertebrates 60(2): 147-162. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.35269

Kim, J. P. & Cho, Y. K. (2019). [Unrecorded Korean Atypus karschii Doenitz (Atypidae Thorell, genus Atypus)]. Korean Arachnology 35(1-2): 1-4.

Kim, S. T. & Yoo, J. S. (2019). Two newly recorded wolf spiders with one new species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from Korea. Journal of Species Research 8(3): 283-287. doi:10.12651/JSR.2019.8.3.283

Kim, S. T., Lee, S. Y. & Yoo, J. S. (2019). Two newly recorded small orb weavers with a new species (Araneae, Araneidae) from Korea. Journal of Forest and Environmental Science 35(4): 263-267. doi:10.7747/JFES.2019.35.4.263

Kioko, G. M., Jäger, P., Kioko, E. N., Ji, L. Q. & Li, S. Q. (2019). On the species of the genus Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967 studied by Roewer (1955) from Africa (Araneae, Agelenidae). African Invertebrates 60(1): 109-132. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.34359

Komisarenko, A. A., Omelko, M. M. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). An annotated list of linyphiid spiders (Aranei: Linyphiidae) of Laos. Far Eastern Entomologist 377: 26-32. doi:10.25221/fee.377.2

Kropf, C., Blick, T., Brescovit, A. D., Chatzaki, M., Dupérré, N., Gloor, D., Haddad, C. R., Harvey, M. S., Jäger, P., Marusik, Y. M., Ono, H., Rheims, C. A. & Nentwig, W. (2019). How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed “pragmatic classification” of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4545(3): 444-446. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.3.10

Kulkarni, M. L. & Dupérré, N. (2019). Description of a new species of Althepus (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Maharashtra State, India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 14(1): 158-164.

Kunt, K. B., Elverici, M., Yağmur, E. A. & Özkütük, R. S. (2019). Kut gen. nov., a new troglomorphic spider genus from Turkey (Araneae, Dysderidae). Subterranean Biology 32: 95-109. doi:10.3897/subtbiol.32.46534

Kuntner, M., Hamilton, C. A., Cheng, R.-C., Gregorič, M., Lupse, N., Lokovsek, T., Lemmon, E. M., Lemmon, A. R., Agnarsson, I., Coddington, J. A. & Bond, J. E. (2019). Golden orbweavers ignore biological rules: phylogenomic and comparative analyses unravel a complex evolution of sexual size dimorphism. Systematic Biology 68(4): 555-572. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syy082

Kuralt, Ž. & Kostanjšek, R. (2019). A contribution to the Slovenian spider fauna – IV. Natura Sloveniae 21(1): 21-45.

Lavery, A. & Dupérré, N. (2019). Note on the replacement name for the preoccupied genus Linga Lavery & Snazell, 2013 and the synonymy of the type species Linga orqueta Lavery & Snazell, 2013 (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnology 18(3): 248-249. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.248

Lecigne, S., Cornic, J.-F., Oger, P. & Van Keer, J. (2019). Celerrimus n. gen. (Araneae, Philodromidae) et description de Celerrimus duffeyi n. sp., une espèce très singulière d’Europe occidentale. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 32-51.

Lemke, M. (2019a). Weitere Erstnachweise von Webspinnen aus Norddeutschland (Araneae: Clubionidae, Linyphiidae, Mimetidae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 48-53. doi:10.30963/aramit5709

Lemke, M. (2019b). Olios argelasius (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Bananen in Schleswig-Holstein gefunden. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 16-17. doi:10.30963/aramit5806

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Zhang, C. T. & Li, S. Q. (2019a). Troglocoelotes gen. n., a new genus of Coelotinae spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) from caves in South China. Zootaxa 4554(1): 219-238. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4554.1.7

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Chen, H. F., Wu, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019c). New species of the coelotine spider genus Lineacoelotes (Araneae: Agelenidae) from China. Zootaxa 4623(2): 351-363. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.9

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Chen, H. F., Wu, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019d). Four new species of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from the Tibetan Plateau, China. Zootaxa 4648(1): 141-154. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.7

Li, B., Zhao, Z., Chen, Y. X., Chen, H. F., Wu, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019f). Vappolotes, a new genus of coelotine spiders (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Guizhou, China. Zootaxa 4701(5): 434-442. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4701.5.3

Li, D. Q., Liu, H. & Xu, X. (2019). Three new species of the primitively segmented spiders from Mt Yuelu, Hunan, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). Zootaxa 4691(2): 139-152. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4691.2.3

Li, Q., Wang, L. Y., Zhang, Z. X. & Chen, H. M. (2019b). Two new spider species (Arachnida, Araneae) from Fanjingshan National Nature Reserve, Guizhou, China. Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 36(4, 2018): 119-123. [published in April 2019]

Li, S. Q. & Blick, T. (2019). Clubiona zhangyongjingi, a name to replace Clubiona transversa Zhang & Yin, 1998 (Araneae: Clubionidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 131. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.011

Li, Y. & Lin, Y. C. (2019). Taxonomic review of the Asian Trogloneta species (Araneae, Mysmenidae). ZooKeys 817: 41-60. doi:10.3897/zookeys.817.30468

Li, Z. C., Zhang, H., Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2019e). One new Pseudopoda group from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Sparassidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 96-105. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.003

Li, Z. Y. & Zhang, F. (2019). Two new species of Cheiracanthium C. L. Koch, 1839 (Araneae, Cheiracanthiidae) from Xizang, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 87-95. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.002

Lin, S. W., Lopardo, L., Haase, M. & Uhl, G. (2019a). Taxonomic revision of the dwarf spider genus Shaanxinus Tanasevitch, 2006 (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae), with new species from Taiwan and Vietnam. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 19(2): 211-276. doi:10.1007/s13127-018-00389-6

Lin, Y. C. (2019). First report of the spider genus Symphytognatha from Asia (Araneae, Symphytognathidae). Zootaxa 4638(2): 291-295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4638.2.8

Lin, Y. J., Koh, J. K. H., Shao, L. & Li, S. Q. (2019b). Description on two species of genus Platythomisus (Araneae, Thomisidae) from China and Singapore. ZooKeys 852: 73-84. doi:10.3897/zookeys.852.34436

Liu, F., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019b). Two new species of Theridiidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Yunnan province, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(3): 394-399. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.012

Liu, H., Xu, X., Zhang, Z. T., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2019a). Four new species of the trapdoor spider genus Conothele Thorell,1878 (Araneae, Halonoproctidae) from China. ZooKeys 833: 133-150. doi:10.3897/zookeys.833.32736

Liu, K., Xu, X., Xiao, Y. H., Yin, H. Q. & Peng, X. J. (2019b). Six new species of Otacilia from southern China (Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Zootaxa 4585(3): 438-458. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.3.2

Liu, K. K., Yin, H. Q., Liu, J. H., Xu, X., Xiao, Y. H. & Peng, X. J. (2019c). A new record of the spider family Caponiidae from China (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 851: 1-15. doi:10.3897/zookeys.851.33351

Liu, K. K., Henrard, A., Xiao, Y. H. & Xu, X. (2019e). On three new oonopid species from China and the discovery of the male Orchestina bialata Liu, Xiao & Xu, 2016 (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 4701(3): 235-256. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4701.3.2

Liu, P., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019a). Redescription of Cheiracanthium rupicola (Thorell, 1897) (Araneae, Eutichuridae) with the first description of the male from Yunnan, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(2): 316-319. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.02.001

Liu, P., Irfan, M., Yang, S. F. & Peng, X. J. (2019d). Two new species of Araneus Clerck, 1757 (Araneae, Araneidae) and first description of A. wulongensis male from China. ZooKeys 886: 61-77. doi:10.3897/zookeys.886.31163

Liu, P., Tu, Z. B. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). First description on the female of Draconarius latiprocessus (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 121-123. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.008

Liu, S. J., Yu, S. H. & Tong, Y. F. (2019). A new species of the genus Trilacuna (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Yunnan Province, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 47-51. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.005

Logunov, D. V. (2019). Taxonomic notes on the Harmochirina Simon, 1903 from South and South-East Asia (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 99-112. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.08

Logunov, D. V. & Obenauer, S. (2019). A new species of Uroballus Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Hong Kong, a jumping spider that appears to mimic lichen moth caterpillars. Israel Journal of Zoology 49(1): 1-9. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2632730

Logunov, D. V. & Schäfer, M. (2019). A new species of Pseudomogrus Simon, 1937 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Canary Islands. Arachnology 18(2): 121-126. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.121

Longhorn, S. J. & Gabriel, R. (2019). Revised taxonomic status of some Mexican and Central American tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with transfers from Aphonopelma Pocock, 1901, and a new genus from the Pacific lowlands of Nicaragua and Costa Rica. Arachnology 18(2): 101-120. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.101

Lu, J. S., Tian, Q. & Chen, J. (2019). A new species of the genus Allomedmassa from Wuling Mountains, China (Araneae: Corinnidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 41-46. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.004

Luis de la Iglesia, J. A. (2019). A new Iberian trapdoor spider, Iberesia valdemoriana n. sp., and the first records of I. brauni and I. barbara in the Iberian Peninsula (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Arachnology 18(2): 156-171. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.156

Macas-Pogo, P. & Astudillo, M. D. (2019). Registro de Latrodectus mactans (Fabricius, 1775) (Araneae: Theridiidae) en Chingazo Alto, provincia de Chimborazo, Ecuador. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 35: 61-62.

Machado, M., Guzati, C., Viecelli, R., Molina-Gómez, D. & Teixeira, R. A. (2019). A taxonomic review of the crab spider genus Sidymella (Araneae, Thomisidae) in the Neotropics. Zoosystematics and Evolution 95(2): 319-344. doi:10.3897/zse.95.34958

Machado, M., Teixeira, R. A. & Milledge, G. A. (2019). On the Australian bark crab spider genus Stephanopis: taxonomic review and description of seven new species (Araneae: Thomisidae: Stephanopinae). Records of the Australian Museum 71(6): 217-276. doi:10.3853/j.2201-4349.71.2019.1698

Maddison, W. P. & Szűts, T. (2019). Myrmarachnine jumping spiders of the new subtribe Levieina from Papua New Guinea (Araneae, Salticidae, Myrmarachnini). ZooKeys 842: 85-112. doi:10.3897/zookeys.842.32970

Maddison, W. P. (2019). A new lapsiine jumping spider from North America, with a review of Simon's Lapsias species (Araneae, Salticidae, Spartaeinae). ZooKeys 891: 17-29. doi:10.3897/zookeys.891.38563

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Ramírez, M. J. (2019). The crevice weaver spider genus Kukulcania (Araneae: Filistatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 426: 1-151. doi:10.1206/00030090-426.1.1

Magalhaes, I. L. F. & Grismado, C. J. (2019). The Malagasy species of the crevice weaver genus Andoharano (Araneae: Filistatidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 162(4): 263-307. doi:10.3099/0027-4100-162.4.263

Maheshwari, N. R., Marathe, J. M., Patil, S. R. & Chopda, M. Z. (2019). First description of the male of Uloborus jabalpurensis Bhandari & Gajbe, 2001 (Araneae: Uloboridae). Serket 17(1): 27-31.

Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019a). Taxonomic revision of the monotypic genus Psellonus Simon, 1897 (Araneae, Philodromidae). Zootaxa 4543(3): 442-450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4543.3.9

Malamel, J. J., Nafin, K. S., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). Two new species of the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the genera Epeus Peckham et Peckham, 1886 and Piranthus Thorell, 1895 from India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 267-276. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.10

Malamel, J. J., Prajapati, D. A., Sudhikumar, A. V. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019c). Two new species of the tribe Ballini Banks, 1892 from India (Araneae: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 424-434. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.07

Mammola, S., Milano, F. & Isaia, M. (2019). Taxonomy, ecology and conservation of the cave-dwelling spider Histopona palaeolithica, with the description of H. petrovi sp. nov. (Araneae: Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology 47(3): 317-325. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-47.3.317

Mariante, R. M. & Hill, D. E. (2019). First report of the African jumping spider Thyene coccineovittata (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina) in Brazil. Peckhamia 173.2: 1-23.

Martínez-Sánchez, I. & Chamé-Vázquez, D. (2019). Primer registro de Ariamnes mexicanus (Exline y Levi, 1962) (Araneae: Theridiidae) para Hidalgo, México. Dugesiana 26(1): 26.

Marusik, Y. M. & Zonstein, S. (2019). Redescription of the Central Asian spider Pholcoides seclusa comb. nov. (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 43-47. doi:10.30963/aramit5708

Marusik, Y. M. & Blick, T. (2019). Further new synonyms of jumping spider genera (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 89-91. doi:10.30963/aramit5717

Marusik, Y. M., Nekhaeva, A. A. & Koponen, S. (2019). On four sibling Erigone species occurring in the Arctic (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 135-146. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.12

Marusik, Y. M. & Omelko, M. M. (2019). Redescription of gnaphosids (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) described by O. Pickard-Cambridge from the material of the Second Yarkand Mission. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 277-290. doi:10.15298/ arthsel.28.2.11

Marusik, Y. M., Seropian, A. & Koponen, S. (2019). On the northernmost record of Pritha (Aranei: Filistatidae) in the Caucasus and entire Asia with notes on Filistatidae from Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 403-407. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.04

Marusik, Y. M., Fomichev, A. A. & Omelko, M. M. (2019). New data on Parasyrisca (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Mongolia. Zootaxa 4688(2): 199-212. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4688.2.2

Marusik, Y. M., Zonstein, S. & Koponen, S. (2019). Redescription of a poorly known insular spider Labahitha gibsonhilli (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 18(3): 258-259. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.258

Marusik, Y. M. (2019). A new species of Euophrys (Aranei: Salticidae) from Israel. Arthropoda Selecta 28(4): 562-566. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.09

Mazzia, C., Bounias-Delacour, A. & Cornic, J.-F. (2019). Pellenes seriatus (Thorell, 1875), découverte pour la France et redescription de l’espèce. Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 24-28.

Mbo, Z. & Haddad, C. R. (2019). A revision of the endemic South African long-jawed ground spider genus Drassodella Hewitt, 1916 (Araneae: Gallieniellidae). Zootaxa 4582(1): 1-62. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4582.1.1

Meng, Z. Y., Luo, H. P., Xiao, Y. H., Xu, X. & Liu, K. K. (2019). Redescription of Borboropactus jiangyong Yin, Peng, Yan & Kim, 2004 (Araneae, Thomisidae), with the first description of the male. ZooKeys 870: 137-148. doi:10.3897/zookeys.870.35230

Metwally, A.-S., Mohafez, M., El-Danasory, M. & El-Gendy, A. (2019). First record of Mexcala monstrata (Araneae: Salticidae) from Egypt. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 4-5. doi:10.30963/aramit5802

Mezőfi, L. & Markó, V. (2019). First record of Philodromus buchari (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Hungary. Folia Entomologica Hungarica 79(2018): 29-35. [publ. March 20, 2019]

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Midgley, J. M. & Engelbrecht, I. (2019). New collection records for Theraphosidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) in Angola, with the description of a remarkable new species of Ceratogyrus. African Invertebrates 60(1): 1-13. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.32141

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Mikhailov, K. G. (2019b). Arachnid types in the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. V. Aranei 4 (Arachnida). Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 335-346. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.15

Milano, F., Mammola, S., Rollard, C., Leccia, M.-F. & Isaia, M. (2019). An inventory of the spider species of Barcelonnette (France), with taxonomic notes on Piniphantes agnellus n. comb. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Zoosystema 41(4): 29-58. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2019v41a4

Mora-Castro, R., Edwards, G. B. & Hanson-Snortum, P. (2019). Phenology of an urban population of Lyssomanes jemineus Peckham & Wheeler (Araneae: Salticidae) with a list of other jumping spiders from the same Costa Rican site. Peckhamia 194.1: 1-6.

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Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2019). An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 249-156. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463459

Mu, Y., Jin, C. & Zhang, F. (2019). A survey of Agroeca Westring, 1861 from China (Araneae: Liocranidae). Zootaxa 4615(1): 91-112. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4615.1.4

Nadal, M. F. & Rubio, G. D. (2019). On the genus Pseudofluda (Araneae, Salticidae): two new species including the first description of a female and distribution data. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 54(2): 80-86. doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1593606

Nafin, K. S., Sumesh, N. V., Sudhin, P. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019). Redescription and new records of Phoroncidia septemaculeata O. Pickard-Cambridge 1873 from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4691(2): 188-194.

Nagel, P. & Grieder, L. (2019). Herrich-Schäffer’s Deutschlands Insecten … (1829–1844), the associate publication of Koch’s Deutschlands Crustaceen … (1835–1844), and Heft 110 (1823) of Panzer’s Faunae Insectorum Germanicae … : bibliographic notes and dating. Sherbornia 5(1): 1-156.

Najim, S. A., Seyyar, O. & Demir, H. (2019). Second record of Hippasa pisaurina Pocock, 1900 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Iraq. Serket 16(4): 188-190.

Najim, S. A. & Al-Khazali, A. M. (2019). The first record of Crossopriza maculipes (Araneae, Pholcidae) in Iraq. Syrian Journal of Agricultural Research 6(2): 548-554.

Najim, S. A. & Al-Fayyadh, M. J. (2019). Second record of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) from Iraq. Serket 17(1): 7-9.

Najim, S. A. (2019). The first record of long-jawed spider Tetragnatha nitens (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Iraq. Serket 17(1): 10-14.

Nanayakkara, R. P., Sumanapala, A. P. & Kirk, P. (2019). Another from Sri Lanka, after 126 years; Chilobrachys jonitriantisvansicklei sp. nov. (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from a fragmented forest patch in the wet zone of Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(2): 25-36.

Naumova, M., Lazarov, S. & Deltshev, C. (2019). Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89. doi:10.37828/em.2019.22.5

Naumova, M. (2019). Description of Titanoeca deltshevi sp. n. from Bulgaria with faunistic notes on related species in the Balkans (Araneae, Titanoecidae). Zootaxa 4688(3): 420-430. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.8

Naumova, M., Indzhov, S., Dimitrov, D. & Deltshev, C. (2019). Redescription of Dasumia kusceri (Kratochvíl, 1935), with the first description of the female and notes on the genus Dasumia Thorell, 1875 (Araneae: Dysderidae) in Bulgaria. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71(4): 467-472.

Nekhaeva, A. A., Marusik, Y. M. & Buckle, D. (2019). A survey of the Siberio-Nearctic genus Masikia Millidge, 1984 (Aranei: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 157-168. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.15

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019). Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 29-51. doi:10.30963/aramit5809

Okumura, K.-I. (2019). Two new species of the subfamily Coelotinae (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Central Honshu, Japan. Arachnology 18(3): 291-295. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.291

Okumura, K.-I., Honki, K. & Ohba, S.-Y. (2019). Notes on several Japanese species of Iwogumoa and Coelotes (Araneae: Agelenidae: Coelotinae). Species Diversity 24(2): 247-252. doi:10.12782/specdiv.24.247

Ott, R., Ubick, D., Bonaldo, A. B., Brescovit, A. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2019). A revision of the New World goblin spider genus Cinetomorpha Simon, 1892 revalidated from Gamasomorpha Karsch, 1881 (Araneae, Oonopidae, Oonopinae). Zootaxa 4641(1): 1-152. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4641.1.1

Otto, J. C., Hill, D. E. & Whyte, R. (2019). Australian jumping spiders of the genus Hypoblemum (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 180.1: 1-62.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2019a). Three new peacock spiders from the southeast and southwest of Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus). Peckhamia 189.1: 1-77.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2019c). Maratus banyowla, a new peacock spider in the personatus group from Western Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Peckhamia 195.1: 1-23.

Otto, J. C. & Hill, D. E. (2019b). Catalogue of the Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus, Saratus), version 3. Peckhamia 148.3: 1-28.

Oxford, G. (2019a). Non-additive effects on the morphology of hybrids between two species of large house spiders, Eratigena saeva and E. duellica (Araneae: Agelenidae). Arachnology 18(3): 223-236. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.223

Oxford, G. (2019b). Enoplognatha caricis (tecta) – a rare British spider in North Yorkshire. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 146: 16-17.

Özkütük, R. S., Kaya, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Danışman, T., Gücel, S. & Kunt, K. B. (2019a). Redescription of Dysdera sultani (Araneae: Dysderidae) with the first description of the female. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 21-25. doi:10.30963/aramit5704

Özkütük, R. S., Elverici, M., Yağmur, E. A. & Kunt, K. B. (2019b). A new mygalomorph spider species from Turkey (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Macrothelidae). Serket 16(4): 179-183.

Özkütük, R. S., Gücel, S., Fuller, Ö. Ö. & Kunt, K. B. (2019c). Cheiracanthium mildei L. Koch, 1864 (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae), a new faunistic record for Cyprus. Serket 16(4): 184-187.

Özkütük, R. S., Gücel, S., Fuller, Ö. Ö. & Kunt, K. B. (2019d). Cithaeron praedonius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872 (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) in Cyprus. Serket 17(1): 54-57.

Özkütük, R. S., Yağmur, E. A., Kunt, K. B. & Karaduman, N. (2019e). Redescription of Harpactea christodeltshevi Bayram, Kunt & Yağmur, 2009 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from Turkey. Commagene Journal of Biology 3(2): 75-78. doi:10.31594/commagene.615623

Paredes-Munguia, W. & Teixeira, R. A. (2019). Description of the female of the cellar spider Mesabolivar guapiara (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Mata Atlântica, Brazil. Zootaxa 4657(1): 191-195. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.12

Passanha, V., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A. D. (2019). A new genus of Micromygalinae (Araneae, Microstigmatidae) from Brazil, with transfer of Masteria emboaba Pedroso, Baptista & Bertani, 2015 and description of six new species. ZooKeys 814: 1-32. doi:10.3897/zookeys.814.29906

Patoleta, B. & Żabka, M. (2019). Salticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of New Caledonia: genus Corambis Simon, 1901. European Journal of Taxonomy 578: 1-18. doi:10.5852/ejt.2019.578

Pedroso, D. R., Miranda, G. S. de & Baptista, R. L. C. (2019). Further advancements in the taxonomy of Trechona spiders (Araneae: Dipluridae): two new species, redescription of Trechona uniformis Mello‐Leitão, 1935, additions to descriptions of Trechona rufa Vellard, 1924 and Trechona venosa (Latreille, 1832) and key to the species. Austral Entomology 58(1): 204-219. doi:10.1111/aen.12364

Perafán, C., Galvis, W. & Pérez-Miles, F. (2019). The first Paratropididae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from Colombia: new genus, species and records. ZooKeys 830: 1-31. doi:10.3897/zookeys.830.31433

Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2019). Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925, senior synonym of Ami Perez-Miles, 2008 and Barropelma Chamberlin, 1940 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 150-155. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.150

Pett, B. L. (2019). First confirmed locality record of Gypogyna forceps Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Scopocirini) from Paraguay. Peckhamia 193.1: 1-3.

Piacentini, L. N. & Ramírez, M. J. (2019). Hunting the wolf: a molecular phylogeny of the wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 136: 227-240. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2019.04.004

Platnick, N. I. (2019). The guardstone spiders of the Phrurotimpus palustris group (Araneae, Phrurolithidae). American Museum Novitates 3944: 1-29. doi:10.1206/3944.1

Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A. D. (2019a). Guasuctenus gen. nov., a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4624(4): 539-550. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.6

Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A. D. (2019b). Almost eight decades later: description of the male of Isoctenus guadalupei (Mello-Leitão, 1941) comb. nov. and redescription of the female. Zootaxa 4683(2): 291-294. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.8

Ponomarev, A. V., Aliev, M. A., Khabiev, G. N. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2019). New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 309-334. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.14

Ponomarev, A. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2019a). A review of spiders of the genus Zelotes Gistel, 1848 of the subterraneus-group (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) from the Caucasus and Ciscaucasia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15(1): 3-22. doi:10.23885/181433262019151-322

Ponomarev, A. V. & Shmatko, V. Y. (2019b). Redescription of Arctosa ravida Ponomarev, 2007 (Aranei: Lycosidae), with the first description of the male. Arthropoda Selecta 28(4): 579-581. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.12

Prajapati, D. A. (2019). A new species of the jumping spider genus Phlegra Simon, 1876 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Aelurillina). Arthropoda Selecta 28(4): 575-578. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.4.11

Prasad, P., Tyagi, K., Caleb, J. T. D. & Kumar, V. (2019). A new species of the cob web spider genus Theridion from India (Araneae: Theridiidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 26: 108-117. doi:10.37828/em.2019.26.7

Prokopenko, E. V. (2019). The first record of Lepthyphantes centromeroides Kulczyński, 1914 (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from the Ukrainian Carpathians. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 15(1): 23-24. doi:10.23885/181433262019151-2324

Prószyński, J. (2019). Character assassination: a personal witness account with a taxonomic note on the genus Laufeia s. lat. (Araneae: Salticidae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 117-127. doi:10.37828/em.2019.22.9

Quasin, S., Siliwal, M. & Uniyal, V. P. (2019). First report of Steatoda cingulata (Thorell, 1890) (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Nanda Devi Biosphere Reserve, Western Himalaya. Munis Entomology and Zoology 14(2): 638-642.

Ramírez, M. J., Grismado, C. J., Ubick, D., Ovtcharenko, V. I., Cushing, P. E., Platnick, N. I., Wheeler, W. C., Prendini, L., Crowley, L. M. & Horner, N. V. (2019). Myrmecicultoridae, a new family of myrmecophilic spiders from the Chihuahuan Desert (Araneae, Entelegynae). American Museum Novitates 3930: 1-24. doi:10.1206/3930.1

Rasalan, J. B. & Barrion-Dupo, A. L. A. (2019). Description of a new species of Masteria L. Koch, 1873 (Dipluridae: Masteriinae) with a world catalogue. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(2): 160-164. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.002

Rheims, C. A. (2019a). On the huntsman spider genus Vindullus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4544(4): 572-580. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4544.4.7

Rheims, C. A. (2019b). Extraordinarius gen. nov., a new genus of Sparianthinae spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from southeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 4674(1): 83-99. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4674.1.4

Ríos-Tamayo, D. (2019). Four new species of Actinopus (Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae) from Uruguay. Zootaxa 4624(4): 523-538. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.5

Rivera-Quiroz, F. A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. (2019). Description of five new Wulfila (Araneae, Anyphaenidae) species from Mexico with comments on the taxonomy of the genus. Zootaxa 4712(2): 269-289. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.6

Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D., Rix, A. G., Wojcieszek, A. M., Huey, J. A. & Harvey, M. S. (2019). Population demography and biology of a new species of giant spiny trapdoor spider (Araneae: Idiopidae: Euoplos) from inland Queensland: developing a ‘slow science’ study system to address a conservation crisis. Austral Entomology 58(2): 282-297. doi:10.1111/aen.12367

Rix, M. G., Wilson, J. D. & Harvey, M. S. (2019). A revision of the white-headed spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Euoplos (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Arbanitinae): a remarkable lineage of rare mygalomorph spiders from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 47(1): 63-76. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-47.1.63

Rubio, G. D., Nadal, M. F., Baigorria, J. E., Oklander, L. I. & Edwards, G. B. (2019). A new species group and two new species of freyine jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillini). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 21(1): 113-121. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.21.639

Ruiz, G. R. S. & Rego, F. N. A. A. (2019). Revision of the spider genus Rishaschia Makhan, 2006 (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 47(1): 77-83. doi:10.1636/0161-8202-47.1.77

Ruiz, G. R. S., Maddison, W. P. & Galiano, M. E. (2019). A revision of the concept of Mago O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1882, and proposal of a new genus (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycini). Zootaxa 4658(1): 124-140. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.5

Růžička, V. & Růžička, A. (2019). Three-dimensional modelling in arachnology as exemplified using Porrhomma-species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 1-3. doi:10.30963/aramit5801

Salgado, A. & Ruiz, G. R. S. (2019). Seven new species of Amphidraus Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4563(3): 451-481. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4563.3.3

Sanap, R. V., Caleb, J. T. D. & Joglekar, A. (2019). A new species of the hisponine jumping spiders from India (Araneae: Salticidae), with some observations on its life history. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 113-124. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.09

Sánchez-Vega, U., Villegas-Guzmán, G. A. & Durán-Barrón, C. G. (2019). Dos nuevos registros de terídidos (Araneae: Theridiidae) para San Luis Potosí y el Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 163-165.

Sankaran, P. M., Malamel, J. J., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019). New species of Habrocestum Simon, 1876 and a redescription of Curubis tetrica Simon, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Hasariini) from India. Journal of Natural History 53(1-2): 1-15. doi:10.1080/00222933.2019.1567856

Sankaran, P. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019). Systaria barkudensis (Gravely, 1931) is a junior synonym of Palicanus caudatus Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Miturgidae, Systariinae). Zootaxa 4585(1): 192-196. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4585.1.12

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019a). New synonymies and transfers in Castianeira Keyserling, 1879 (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae) from India. Zootaxa 4623(2): 331-340. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4623.2.7

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019b). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: I. Genus Scopoides Platnick, 1989 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4648(1): 155-164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4648.1.8

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2019c). Transfer of the Indian species formerly included in the genus Lutica Marx, 1891 to Tropizodium Jocqué & Churchill, 2005 and Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae, Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4658(1): 168-174. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.8

Santanna, M., Rodrigues, E. N. L., Cizauskas, I. & Brescovit, A. D. (2019). On the spider genus Cryptachaea from Peru, Bolivia and cave environments in Brazil: a new species, additional descriptions and new records (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zootaxa 4646(2): 271-292. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4646.2.4

Schifani, E., Dentici, A., Alleruzzo, L. & Di Pompeo, P. (2019). Spermophora senoculata on Sicily/Italy (Araneae: Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 58: 6-8. doi:10.30963/aramit5803

Schubert, J. & Whyte, R. (2019). A new peacock spider from the Cape York Peninsula (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 177.1: 1-16.

Schubert, J. (2019a). Three new peacock spiders from Southwestern Australia (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch, 1878). Zootaxa 4564(1): 81-100. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4564.1.3

Schubert, J. (2019b). Maratus occasus, a new peacock spider from Queensland, Australia with a review of the Maratus tasmanicus group (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch 1878). Peckhamia 187.1: 1-10.

Schwendinger, P. J., Syuhadah, N., Lehmann-Graber, C., Price, L., Huber, S., Hashim, R., Bhassu, S. & Monod, L. (2019). A revision of the trapdoor spider genus Liphistius (Mesothelae: Liphistiidae) in Peninsular Malaysia; part 2. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 321-353. [incl. Erratum (2020): Revue suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 243-244] doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463473

Seyfulina, R. R. (2019). On linyphiid spiders (Aranei: Linyphiidae) from Moscow Area, Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 453-458. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.11

Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Ok, D. (2019). Marjanus Chatzaki, 2018 and Marjanus platnicki (Zhang, Song & Zhu, 2001) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) are new records for Turkish spider fauna. Serket 16(4): 200-202.

Seyyar, O., Kılınç, H. & Demir, H. (2019). Lasophorus Chatzaki, 2018 and Lasophorus zografae Chatzaki, 2018 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) are new records for Turkish spider fauna. Serket 17(1): 42-44.

Seyyar, O., Demir, H. & Türkeş, T. (2019). Kishidaia conspicua (L. Koch, 1866) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new record for Turkish spider fauna. Serket 17(1): 45-47.

Sherwood, D. (2019a). Revised taxonomical placement of Poecilotheria chaojii Mirza, Sanap & Bhosale, 2014 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 19-21. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.19

Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S. J. (2019). A new synonymy in the genus Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae,Theraphosidae), with comments on potential homonymy. Bionomina 15: 69-73. doi:10.11646/bionomina.15.1.8

Sherwood, D. (2019b). Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573-580. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.9

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2019). The first records of Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) from Guyana and Panama (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(3): 280-283. doi:10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.280

Sidorov, V. V. & Galyuta, M. S. (2019). New data on the spider fauna (Arachnida, Aranei) of the Altai Territory. Acta Biologica Sibirica 5(2): 35-39. doi:10.14258/abs.v5.i2.5930

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Stanković, B. (2019). Asianellus festivus (C.L. Koch, 1834) (Araneae: Salticidae) the first record from Serbia. Acta Entomologica Serbica 24(1): 101-104. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2605376

Steinwandter, M., Ballini, S. & Rief, A. (2019). First records of Saitis tauricus (Araneae: Salticidae) from Italy in South Tyrol. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 1-3. doi:10.30963/aramit5701

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Sumesh, N. V. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019a). A new spider species of the genus Cocalus C.L. Koch, 1846 (Araneae: Salticidae: Spartaeinae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 125-130. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.10

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Benjamin, S. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2019b). Two new species of the genus Marengo Peckham et Peckham, 1892 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Western Ghats of India. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 435-444. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.08

Suguro, T. (2019a). A new species of the genus Stedocys (Araneae: Scytodidae), from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 15-18. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.15

Suguro, T. (2019b). Irura yueluensis (Peng & Yin 1991) and Synageles hilarulus (C. L. Koch 1846) (Araneae: Salticidae), new to Japanese fauna. Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 25-30. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.25

Sun, X. C., Lin, Y. J., Tong, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2019). First report of a new myrmecophile spider (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Xishuangbanna, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 37-40. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.003

Suzuki, Y. & Yokoi, T. (2019). Discovery of the web of Phoroncidia altiventris (Araneae: Theridiidae) and implications for its taxonomic position. Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 31-33. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.31

Suzuki, Y. (2019). A new species of the genus Wendilgarda (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 59-62. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.59

Szmatona-Túri, T., Kovács, G., Vona-Túri, D. & Magos, G. (2019). Contribution to the knowledge on distribution in Hungary and habitat preferences of Gnaphosa modestior Kulczyński, 1897 a little-known spider species. Periodicum Biologorum 120(2-3, 2018): 135-139. doi:10.18054/pb.v120i2-3.5214

Talwar, S., Majagi, S. H., Katepaga, V., Bodkhe, A. & Kamble, S. (2019). First record of Hersilia scrupulosa Foord & Dippenaar-Schoeman, 2006 (Araneae: Hersiliidae) from Asia. Serket 17(1): 32-38.

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Tan, J., Chan, Z. Y., Wong, C. X., Koh, J. K. H. & Yong, H. S. (2019b). Morphological and molecular evidence supports Argiope chloreis Thorell 1877 and A. chloreides Chrysanthus 1961 (Araneidae: Argiopinae) as distinct species. Acta Arachnologica 68(2): 41-58. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.41

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019a). A new erigonine genus from the Nepal Himalayas (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Turkish Journal of Zoology 43(2): 229-232. doi:10.3906/zoo-1801-40

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019b). A new genus and two new species of linyphiid spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Vietnam. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 129-134. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2019-0010

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019c). A new Agyneta from Italy and Greece (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 87-88. doi:10.30963/aramit5716

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019d). On the erigonine genera Hubertella Platnick, 1989 and Oia Wunderlich, 1973 in the Himalayas (Aranei: Linyphiidae), with descriptions of two new species. Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 147-151. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.13

Tanasevitch, A. V. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). A new Gongylidioides Oi, 1960 from Taiwan (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(1): 152-156. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.1.14

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019e). On linyphiid spiders collected by Antoine Senglet on Corsica, with the description of a new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(1): 43-51. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2619516

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019f). On the spider genus Racata Millidge, 1995, with the description of three new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(1): 53-59. doi:10.5281/zenodo.2619518

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019g). Two new Tapinocyba Simon, 1884 from the highlands of Nepal (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 305-308. doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.2.13

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019h). A new genus and new records of linyphiid spiders from the Oriental Region (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 448-452. doi:10.15298/ arthsel.28.2.12

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019i). On Megalepthyphantes lydiae Wunderlich, 1994 (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 147-150. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463439

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2019j). Notes on some Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001, with the description of a new species from the Iberian Peninsula (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 126(2): 203-208. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3463449

Tang, Y. N., Li, C. G. & Yang, Z. Z. (2019). A new species of tube-dwelling spider genus Ariadna from Southwest of China (Araneae: Segestriidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 113-115. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.006

Tanikawa, A. & Yamasaki, T. (2019). Anepsion japonicum (Bösenberg & Strand 1906) is a junior synonym of A. maritatum (O. Pickard-Cambridge 1877). Acta Arachnologica 68(1): 11-13. doi:10.2476/asjaa.68.11

Teixeira, R. A. & Machado, M. (2019). On Neotropical crab spiders: description of a new species of Onocolus (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4657(1): 188-190. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.1.11

Tong, Y. F., Li, F. Y., Song, Y., Chen, H. F. & Li, S. Q. (2019a). Thirty-two new species of the genus Speocera Berland, 1914 (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from China, Madagascar and Southeast Asia. Zoological Systematics 44(1): 1-75. doi:10.11865/zs.201901

Tong, Y. F., Chen, H. F., Bai, S. C., Zhang, Z. S. & Li, S. Q. (2019b). Seven new species of the genus Trilacuna Tong & Li, 2007 from Yunnan, China (Araneae, Oonopidae).. ZooKeys 821: 11-44. doi:10.3897/zookeys.821.29599

Tong, Y. F., Liu, S. J., Kioko, E. N., Kioko, G. M. & Li, S. Q. (2019c). Taxonomic studies on seven species of the genus Opopaea (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Kenya. African Invertebrates 60(2): 255-289. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.39146

Topçu, A. & Demircan, N. (2019). A new record of genus Lathys Simon, 1884 from Turkey (Araneae: Dictynidae). Serket 16(4): 173-175.

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Trivedi, V. & Dal, P. (2019). Occurrence, distribution and description of Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Sicariidae) from western India. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 116: 1-8. doi:10.17087/jbnhs/2019/v116/123017

Tsiareshyna, M. (2019). First record of spider Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) from Belarus with notes on overwintering. European Journal of Ecology 5(1): 11-14. doi:10.2478/eje-2019-0001

Tuneva, T. K. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2019). First description of the female Zelotes occultus Tuneva et Esyunin, 2003 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) with data on the distribution of the species. Arthropoda Selecta 28(3): 445-447. doi:10.15298/ arthsel.28.3.09

Türkeş, T. (2019a). New records of Linyphiidae (Araneae) for Turkish araneo-fauna. Serket 16(4): 170-172.

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Valencia-Cuéllar, D., Perafán, C., Guerrero, R. J. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2019). Schismatothelinae spiders (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae) from Colombia: four new species and an approach to their diversity. Zootaxa 4545(4): 548-562. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.4.6

Vogels, J. (2019). Verslag van een vakantieweek spinnen verzamelen met Talavera aperta (Miller, 1971) nieuw voor de Nederlandse fauna [Report of a holiday week collectiong spiders, with Talavera aperta (Miller, 1971) new to fauna of the Netherlands]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 38: 25-30.

Vogels, J., Koomen, P., Tutelaers, P. & IJland, S. (2019). The jumping spider Evarcha michailovi new for the Netherlands: habitat description and identification key of all Dutch Evarcha species. Entomologische Berichten 79(6): 217-229.

Wang, C., Mi, X. Q., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019). A new spider species of the genus Nandicius Prószyński, 2016 from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau of China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 116-120. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.007

Wang, L. Y., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2019). Four new species of the spider genus Cicurina Menge, 1871 from China (Araneae: Dictynidae). Zootaxa 4615(2): 351-364. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4615.2.7

Wang, L. Y., Zhang, Z. S. & Peng, X. J. (2019). First record of Artoria Thorell, 1877 (Araneae: Lycosidae) from Malaysia, with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4657(2): 392-396. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4657.2.12

Wang, Y., Li, Y. & Yang, Z. Z. (2019). A new species of genus Macrothele (Araneae: Macrothelidae) from China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 109-112. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.005

Wesołowska, W. (2019). Colaxes insularis (Peckham & Peckham, 1885) is a valid species of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Ballinae). Israel Journal of Entomology 49(1): 57-61. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3539465

Wilson, J. D., Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Schmidt, D. J. & Hughes, J. M. (2019). Systematics of the palisade trapdoor spiders (Euoplos) of south-eastern Queensland (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae): four new species distinguished by their burrow entrance architecture. Invertebrate Systematics 33(2): 253-276. doi:10.1071/IS18014

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Xu, H., Zhang, C. T. & Yao, Z. Y. (2019). Pholcus mixiaoqii sp. nov., one new spider species from Tibet, China (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4656(2): 484-488. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4656.2.11

Xu, M. J., Kim, S. T., Yoo, J. S., Nam, E. J. & Li, S. Q. (2019a). Three new species of the genus Falcileptoneta Komatsu, 1970 (Araneae, Leptonetidae) from Korea. ZooKeys 872: 1-12. doi:10.3897/zookeys.872.34594

Xu, X., Ono, H., Kuntner, M., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2019b). A taxonomic monograph of the liphistiid spider genus Heptathela, endemic to Japanese islands. ZooKeys 888: 1-50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.888.34494

Yang, D. X., Zhou, G. C., Yang, M. F. & Peng, X. J. (2019a). Redescription of Clubiona gongi Zhang, Yin, Bao & Kim, 1997 (Araneae: Clubionidae) with the first description of the male. Zootaxa 4658(1): 183-188. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4658.1.10

Yang, S. F., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019b). Two new species of Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Arachnida, Araneae) from Wuling Mountain, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(2): 165-172. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.001

Yang, S. F., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019a). A new species of Parasteatoda Archer, 1946 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Wuling Mountain, China. Turkish Journal of Zoology 43(2): 233-238. doi:10.3906/zoo-1809-2

Yang, S. F., Irfan, M., Liu, P. & Peng, X. J. (2019c). Two new species of Dipoena Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Wuling Mountains, China. Turkish Journal of Zoology 43(6): 598-608. doi:10.3906/zoo-1907-27

Yang, Z. Z. & Chen, H. M. (2019). Description of a new cave spider species of genus Weintrauboa from Guizhou Province, China (Araneae: Pimoidae). Journal of Chuxiong Normal University 33(3, 2018): 43-45. [published in April 2019]

Yang, Z. Z., Yang, Z. B., Zhao, Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019b). Review of the tent-web spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 in China, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Zootaxa 4679(1): 126-138. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4679.1.8

Yao, N., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019a). Three new species of Phrurolithus Koch, 1839 (Araneae, Phrurolithidae) from Wuling Mountain, China. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(2): 173-180. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.01.011

Yao, N., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019b). Five new species of Otacilia Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Phrurolithidae) from the Wuling Mountain Range, China. Zootaxa 4613(2): 290-304. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4613.2.4

Yao, Z. Y., Kioko, G. M., Kioko, E. N. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Three new species of the spider family Pholcidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Taita-Taveta, Kenya. Zootaxa 4651(1): 114-124.

Yao, Z. Y., Nie, L. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Eight new species of the spider genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China. Zootaxa 4683(3): 336-360. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4683.3.2

Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2019a). Eight new species of the genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae, Clubionidae). Zootaxa 4545(2): 151-178. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4545.2.1

Yu, H. & Zhang, J. S. (2019). A new species of Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Guizhou Province, China. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 71(1): 3-8.

Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2019b). Clubiona theoblicki, a name to replace Clubiona quadrata (Araneae, Clubionidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 40. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.003

Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2019c). On further species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille, 1804 (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China. Zootaxa 4679(2): 201-230. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4679.2.1

Yu, K. P., Lo, Y. Y., Huang, W. C., Hsiao, Y. & Ding, T. S. (2019). Redescription of a wall crab spider species from Taiwan: Siamspinops formosensis (Kayashima, 1943) comb. nov., with the first description of males and taxonomic notes (Araneae: Selenopidae). Zootaxa 4543(4): 590-594. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4543.4.8

Yuan, L., Zhao, L. J. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). Preliminary study on the spider diversity of the Wanglang National Nature Reserve. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(1): 7-36. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.01.002

Yuan, T., Niu, C. L., Ye, X. Y. & Zhang, Z. S. (2019). A newly recorded crab-spider Monaeses israeliensis (Thomisidae) from Xinjiang, China. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 106-108. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.004

Zamani, A. & Crews, S. C. (2019). The flattie spider family Selenopidae (Araneae) in the Middle East. Zoology in the Middle East 65(1): 79-87. doi:10.1080/09397140.2018.1540150

Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M., Soofi, M., Koponen, S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Šestáková, A. (2019a). First record of Poltys nagpurensis (Araneae: Araneidae) from Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 4-7. doi:10.30963/aramit5702

Zamani, A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019). The spider genera Azerithonica and Tegenaria (Aranei: Agelenidae: Tegenariini) in Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 28(2): 291-303. doi:10.15298/ arthsel.28.2.12

Zamani, A., Tanasevitch, A. V., Nadolny, A. A., Esyunin, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019b). New data on the spider fauna of Iran (Arachnida: Aranei). Part VI. Euroasian Entomological Journal 18(4): 233-243. doi:10.15298/euroasentj.18.4.01

Zanone, I., Larrea, D. D. & Raimundo, A. T. (2019). First record of Eustala vellardi Mello-Leitão, 1924 (Araneae: Araneidae) in Argentina, with notes on opisthosomal polymorphism. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 151-153.

Zeng, C., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2019). First record of the spider genus Phobetinus (Araneae: Mimetidae) in China, with the description of a new species. Journal of Asia-Pacific Biodiversity 12(4): 674-677. doi:10.1016/j.japb.2019.09.003

Zhan, Y., Jiang, H., Wu, Q., Zhang, H., Bai, Z. S., Kuntner, M. & Tu, L. H. (2019). Comparative morphology refines the conventional model of spider reproduction. PLoS One 14(7, e0218486): 1-16 & 12 Supplements. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0218486

Zhang, B. S. & Zhang, F. (2019a). Three new species of the genus Zodarion (Araneae, Zodariidae) from China. ZooKeys 813: 67-87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.813.29683

Zhang, B. S. & Zhang, F. (2019b). Four new species of the genus Mallinella (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Malaysia. Zootaxa 4568(2): 242-260. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4568.2.2

Zhang, H., Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2019). Establishing a new species group of Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 with the description of two new species (Araneae, Sparassidae). ZooKeys 879: 91-115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.879.35110

Zhang, Q. & Lin, Y. C. (2019). Two new spider species of the genus Conculus (Araneae, Anapidae) from Southeast Asia. Zootaxa 4612(3): 423-430. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4612.3.8

Zhang, X. Q. & Li, S. Q. (2019). On three species of the spider genus Pimoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) from China. ZooKeys 855: 1-13. doi:10.3897/zookeys.855.33501

Zhao, Q. Y. (2019). Online but unofficially published: new synonyms of two linyphiid spiders. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 28(2): 128-130. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2019.02.010

Zhao, X., Yao, Z. Y., Song, Y. & Li, S. Q. (2019). Two new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4603(3): 559-567. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4603.3.8

Zhong, Y., Lin, Y. J. & Liu, J. (2019). First description of the male of Barylestis saaristoi Jäger, 2008 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from China. ZooKeys 832: 153-160. doi:10.3897/zookeys.832.32569

Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2019). Taxonomic study of Sinopoda spiders from China (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4607(1): 1-81. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4607.1.1

Zonstein, S. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019b). A revision of the spider genus Filistata (Araneae: Filistatidae). Arachnology 18(2): 53-93. doi:10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.53

Zonstein, S. L. & Marusik, Y. M. (2019a). On the revisited types of four poorly known African species of Palpimanus (Araneae, Palpimanidae). African Invertebrates 60(1): 83-95. doi:10.3897/AfrInvertebr.60.34229

Zonstein, S. L. (2019). New data on the spider genus Nemesia in Algeria (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 49(1): 69-130. doi:10.5281/zenodo.3592368

2020

Al-Khazali, A. M. (2020). Genus Hogna Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Lycosidae), a new record to the spider fauna of Iraq. Serket 17(2): 101-104.

Alioua, Y., Bosmans, R., Kherbouche, O. & Bissati, S. (2020). Distribution of the genus Larinia in the Maghreb, with the first record of Larinia chloris in Algeria (Araneae: Araneidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 1-4. doi:10.30963/aramit5901

Alioua, Y. & Bosmans, R. (2020). Poecilochroa senilis (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) recorded for the first time in Algeria and Morocco, with the proposition of a new synonym. Serket 17(2): 121-126.

Alvarenga, A. da Silva de, Magalhaes, I. L. F., Fonseca, R. Nunes da & Pérez-González, A. (2020). Rectifying the identities of the males of two Micrathena species (Araneae: Araneidae), with report of the first case of intersexuality in the genus. Zootaxa 4808(1): 151-164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.9

Álvarez-Padilla, A., Kallal, R. J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Taxonomy and phylogenetics of Nanometinae and other Australasian orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 438: 1-107. doi:10.1206/0003-0090.438.1.1

Andre, C. (2020). Tree selectivity by the theraphosid spider Typhochlaena costae Bertani, 2012 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019): 22-41. [publ. in Jan. 2020]

Asalatha, P. & Prasadan, P. K. (2020). First record of the spiders Neoscona usbonga Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 and Hamataliwa pentagona Tang & Li, 2012 (Araneae: Araneidae & Oxyopidae) from India. Serket 17(2): 97-100.

Azarkina, G. N. (2020). Manzuma gen. nov., a new aelurilline genus of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 611: 1-47. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.611

Azarkina, G. N. & Zamani, A. (2020). The first description of the female of Heliophanus xerxesi Logunov, 2009 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Iran. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 21-25. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0003

Bali, L., Andrési, D., Szinetár, C. & Tuba, K. (2020). Betekintés a Bejcgyertyánosi farkas-erdő talajközeli pókfaunájába [Observation of the epigeic spider fauna of the Bejcgyertyános wolf forest]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 18: 59-74.

Ballarin, F. & Pantini, P. (2020). Three new species and new records of the genus Centromerus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Italy. European Journal of Taxonomy 660: 1-23. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.660

Ballarin, F. (2020). Domitius culsu sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new troglobiont spider from Italy with notes on Italian nesticids of the genus Domitius Ribera, 2018. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82(2): 82-94. doi:10.4311/2019LSC010

Baptista, R. L. C., Castanheira, P. de S., Oliveira, G. A. & Prado, A. W. do (2020). Descriptions of three new species of jumping-spiders, genus Arnoliseus (Araneae, Salticidae), from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, with comments on their genital morphology and a key to species. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(1): 73-90. doi:10.3897/zse.96.46509

Barrientos, J. A., Brañas, N. & Mederos, J. (2020). The high complexity of Micronetinae Hull, 1920 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) evidenced through ten new cave-dweller species from the Morocco. Zoosystema 42(1): 1-29. doi:10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a1

Barrientos, J. A., Hernández-Corral, J. & Micó, E. (2020). Linyphiidae (Araneae) inhabiting hollow oaks in Mediterranean forests: new descriptions and temporal distribution of remarkable species. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 97-107. doi:10.30963/aramit5912

Barrientos, J. A. & Sánchez-Corral, D. (2020). Linyphiidae (Arachnida: Araneae) de la Sierra de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas (Jaén, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 25-34.

Barrientos, J. A. & Febrer, J. B. (2020). Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 3: nuevos datos. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 69-78.

Basumatary, P., Caleb, J. T. D., Das, S., Jangid, A. K., Kalita, J. & Brahma, D. (2020). First record of the genus Vailimia Kammerer, 2006 from India, with the description of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippina). Zootaxa 4790(1): 178-186. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.11

Bayer, S., Höfer, H. & Metzner, H. (2020). Revision of the genus Corythalia C.L. Koch, 1850, part 1: diagnosis and new species from South America (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae: Euophryini). Zootaxa 4806(1): 1-144. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4806.1.1

Bedoya-Róqueme, E. (2020). Arañas cangrejo del género Tmarus Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Thomisidae) de bosques de mangle de Córdoba, Caribe colombiano. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 97-101.

Benavides, L. R. & Hormiga, G. (2020). A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144-191. doi:10.1071/IS19032

Berry, T. (2020). Megalepthyphantes on the move. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 147(S.R.S. News 96): 6.

Biswas, V. & Raychaudhuri, D. (2020). Taxonomic account of orb-weaving spider genus Cyrtarachne Thorell, 1868 (Araneae: Araneidae) of Bangladesh. Journal of Biodiversity Conservation and Bioresource Management 5(2, 2019): 75-82. doi:10.3329/jbcbm.v5i2.44917

Boubakri, A., Bosmans, R., Pétillon, J. & Achouri, M. S. (2020). Description of a new Agraecina species from Tunisia (Araneae: Liocranidae), with a review of all species of the genus. Zootaxa 4772(1): 195-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4772.1.9

Breitling, R. (2020). South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18(4): 333-362. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.333

Breitling, R., Merches, E., Muster, C., Duske, K., Grabolle, A., Hohner, M., Komposch, C., Lemke, M., Schäfer, M. & Blick, T. (2020). Liste der Populärnamen der Spinnen Deutschlands (Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 38-62. doi:10.30963/aramit5907

Brescovit, A. D., Vasconcellos-Neto, J. & Villanueva-Bonilla, G. A. (2020). Notes on the “Pinocchio-cobweb-spider” Craspedisia cornuta (Keyserling, 1891) from southeastern of Brazil (Theridiidae, Pholcommatinae). Zootaxa 4750(2): 211-224. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4750.2.5

Cabra-García, J. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Exploring the impact of morphology, multiple sequence alignment and choice of optimality criteria in phylogenetic inference: a case study with the Neotropical orb-weaving spider genus Wagneriana (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(4): 976-1151. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz088

Caleb, J. T. D. (2020a). A new jumping spider genus from South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Salticidae: Plexippini: Orientattus). Peckhamia 200.1: 1-5.

Caleb, J. T. D., Bera, C. & Acharya, S. (2020). New species and synonymies in the genus Carrhotus Thorell, 1891 from India (Aranei: Salticidae: Salticini). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 51-66. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.04

Caleb, J. T. D. (2020b). Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) fauna of the scrub jungle in the Madras Christian College campus, Chennai, India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(7): 15711-15766. doi:10.11609/jott.5758.12.7.15711-15766

Caleb, J. T. D. & Acharya, S. (2020). Jumping spiders of the genus Phintelloides from India, with the description of a new species (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 95-100. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0009

Calvo García, M. (2020). Iberesia arturica sp. n.; descripción de una nueva especie de Iberesia Decae & Cardoso, 2005 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae) de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 13-23.

Castanheira, P. de S. & Baptista, R. L. C. (2020). Notes on slender species of the long-jawed spider genus Tetragnatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4768(1): 43-75. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4768.1.4

Chang, W.-J. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Fourteen new species of the spider genus Psiloderces Simon, 1892 from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae). ZooKeys 902: 61-105. doi:10.3897/zookeys.902.38967

Chang, W.-J. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). Thirty-one new species of the spider genus Leclercera from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Psilodercidae). ZooKeys 913: 1-87. doi:10.3897/zookeys.913.48650

Chen, H. M., Jiang, X. K. & Yang, Z. Z. (2020). Two new species of the genus Macrothele of China (Araneae, Macrothelidae). Journal of Guangxi Normal University (Natural Science Edition) 38(1): 114-119. doi:10.16088/j.issn.1001-6600.2020.01.015

Chen, Q. J., Zhong, Y., Liu, J. & Chen, J. (2020). The spider genus Prosoponoides (Araneae: Linyphiidae) in China. Zootaxa 4786(1): 23-36. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.1.2

Choudhury, S. R., Malik, S., Hippargi, R., Siliwal, M. & Das, S. K. (2020). Further reporting with description of two rare spiders Inthaeron rossi and Cithaeron indicus (Araneae: Cithaeronidae) from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 15(2): 720-726.

Coşar, İ. & Danışman, T. (2020). A new record for the spider fauna of Turkey: Zelotes balcanicus Deltshev, 2006 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Serket 17(2): 110-113.

Crews, S. C., Garcia, E. L., Spagna, J. C., Van Dam, M. H. & Esposito, L. A. (2020). The life aquatic with spiders (Araneae): repeated evolution of aquatic habitat association in Dictynidae and allied taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 189(3): 862-920 & Suppl. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz139

Danışman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2020a). A new species of the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Turkey. Entomological News 129(1): 43-48. doi:10.3157/021.129.0106

Danışman, T. & Coşar, İ. (2020b). First report of Philodromus dispar Walckenaer, 1826 (Araneae: Philodromidae) in Turkey. Serket 17(2): 105-109.

Danışman, T., Coşar, İ. & Kunt, K. B. (2020). Taxonomic notes on some linyphiid spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Turkey. Eskişehir Technical University Journal of Science and Technology C - Life Sciences and Biotechnology 19(1): 13-25. doi:10.18036/estubtdc.526538

Danışman, T., Mamay, M. & Sabuncu, Y. (2020). Taxonomic notes on genus Synaphosus Platnick & Shadab, 1980 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) in Turkey. Serket 17(2): 127-132.

Demircan, N. (2020). A new species of the genus Cataleptoneta Denis, 1955 (Araneae: Leptonetidae) from a cave in Turkey. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72(2): 187-191.

Dimitrov, D. (2020a). A review of the linyphiid spider genus Proislandiana Tanasevitch, 1985 with description of a new high mountainous species from Turkey and Armenia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Zootaxa 4743(2): 247-256. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4743.2.7

Dimitrov, D. (2020b). Description of a new Tegenaria Latreille, 1804 from southern Turkey with remarks on the Tegenaria ariadnae species-complex (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 935: 47-55. doi:10.3897/zookeys.935.52089

Dimitrov, D. (2020c). Taxonomic contribution to the genus Zodarion Walckenaer, 1826 in Turkey with description of a new species (Araneae: Zodariidae). Zootaxa 4810(2): 361-367. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.2.9

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S. & Foord, S. H. (2020). First record of the orb-web spider Araneus holzapfelae Lessert, 1936 from South Africa (Arachnida: Araneidae). Sansa News 35: 19-21.

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R. & Foord, S. H. (2020). First records for the orb-web spider Arachnura scorpionoides Vinson, 1863 from South Africa (Araneae: Araneidae). Sansa News 34: 12-14.

Domènech, M., Crespo, L. C., Enguídanos, A. & Arnedo, M. A. (2020). Mitochondrial discordance in closely related Theridion spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae), with description of a new species of the T. melanurum group. Zoosystematics and Evolution 96(1): 159-173. doi:10.3897/zse.96.49946

Dupérré, N. & Tapia, E. (2020). Megadiverse Ecuador: a review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species. Zootaxa 4761(1): 1-81. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4761.1.1

El-Hennawy, H. K. (2020). Notes on Segestria florentina (Rossi, 1790) and family Segestriidae in Egypt (Araneae: Segestriidae). Serket 17(2): 158-167.

Estol, N., Marta, K. S. & Rodrigues, E. N. L. (2020). On the Neotropical spider genus Tullgrenella Mello-Leitão, 1941: two new species, complementary descriptions and new records (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4780(2): 356-366. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4780.2.8

Esyunin, S. L. & Tuneva, T. K. (2020). A review of the family Gnaphosidae in the fauna of the Urals (Aranei), 6. Taxonomic remarks and new records, with description of a new species. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 103-120. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.09

Esyunin, S. L., Ruchin, A. B. & Agafonova, O. V. (2020). To the knowledge of the spider fauna (Aranei) of the Republic of Mordovia (Russia). Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 16(1): 3-13. doi:10.23885/181433262020161-313

Esyunin, S. L., Vlassov, J. P. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2020). Taxonomic remarks on the genus Caspicosa Ponomarev, 2007 (Aranei: Lycosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 273-282. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.14

Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Guadanucci, J. P. L., Alayón G., G., Lucas, S. M. & Silva, M. B. da (2020). Taxonomy of the genus Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae): Cuban species described by Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa. Zootaxa 4779(1): 79-90. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4779.1.5

Faúndez, E. I., Alvarez-Muñoz, C. X., Carvajal, M. A. & Vargas, C. J. (2020). The recent expansion of Chilean recluse Loxosceles laeta (Nicolet) (Arachnida: Araneae) in southern Patagonia. Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 79(2): 56-58. doi:10.25085/rsea.790209

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020a). Notes on the spider genus Segestria Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Segestriidae) in the East Palaearctic with description of three new species. Zootaxa 4758(2): 330-346. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.7

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020b). The first record of the spider subfamily Urocteinae Thorell, 1869 (Aranei: Oecobiidae) in Tajikistan. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 235-238. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.08

Fomichev, A. A. & Omelko, M. M. (2020). Three new species of the Acantholycosa-complex (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the south of the Russian Far East. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 262-272. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.13

Fomichev, A. A. & Marusik, Y. M. (2020c). Redescription and new data on the distribution of Scyloxes asiatica Dunin 1992 (Aranei: Scytodidae) from Tajikistan. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 43-48. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.43

Fukushima, C. S., Cardoso, P. & Bertani, R. (2020). Description of the male of the Critically Endangered tarantula Typhochlaena curumim Bertani, 2012 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with comments on tarantula trade and conservation. ZooKeys 938: 125-136. doi:10.3897/zookeys.938.51442

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020a). Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 301-316. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301

Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. (2020b). Revised taxonomic placement of some Mesoamerican Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, with description of three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 387-398. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.387

Gallon, R. C. (2020). Trogloneta granulum Simon, 1922 in North Wales (Araneae, Mysmenidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 147: 15-16.

Galvis, W. (2020a). First description of a female of the genus Sumakuru (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae). Peckhamia 209.1: 1-4.

Galvis, W. (2020b). The genus Lyssomanes (Araneae: Salticidae: Lyssomaninae) in Mexico: a new species, new taxonomic notes and records. Peckhamia 212.1: 1-13.

Gan, J. H. & Wang, C. (2020). A new species of the Clubiona trivalis-group from Guizhou, China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 13-16. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.005

Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2020). Forty-seven new species of Sinopoda from Asia with a considerable extension of the distribution range to the south and description of a new species group (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 4797(1): 1-101. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4797.1.1 1-101

Grismado, C. J. & Achitte-Schmutzler, H. C. (2020). The crab spider genus Uraarachne Keyserling (Araneae: Thomisidae) in Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay: a proposal of its senior synonymy over Plancinus Simon, and description of four new species. Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Nueva Serie 22(1): 91-130. doi:10.22179/REVMACN.22.665

Grismado, C. J., Peralta, L. & Porta, A. O. (2020). Two new records of exotic spiders for Argentina (Arachnida: Araneae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 79(2): 52-55. doi:10.25085/rsea.790208

Guerrero-Fuentes, D. R. & Desales-Lara, M. A. (2020). Nuevos registros de arañas (Araneae) del Estado de México, México. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 147-149.

Haddad, C. R. (2020). The spider genus Creugas Thorell, 1878 in the Afrotropical Region (Araneae: Corinnidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 82-86. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.06

Hänggi, A. & Gloor, D. (2020). Vom Wert alter Amateursammlungen – vier Spinnenarten neu für die Schweiz in der Sammlung Ketterer. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 88-96. doi:10.30963/aramit5911

Hormiga, G. & Scharff, N. (2020). The malkarid spiders of New Zealand (Araneae: Malkaridae). Invertebrate Systematics 34(4): 345-405. doi:10.1071/IS19073

Huang, G. Q. & Lin, Y. J. (2020). A new species of Stiphropus (Aranei: Tho­misidae) from China and first documentation of myrmecophily in this genus. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 257-261. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.12

Huber, B. A. (2020). Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726(1): 1-94. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4726.1.1

Irfan, M., Zhou, G. C., Bashir, S., Mukhtar, M. K. & Peng, X. J. (2020). Yuelushannus gen. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China. European Journal of Taxonomy 642: 1-17. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.642

Jäger, P. (2020). Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa 4790(2): 245-260. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3

Kallal, R. J., Dimitrov, D., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G. & Hormiga, G. (2020). Monophyly, taxon sampling, and the nature of ranks in the classification of orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneoidea). Systematic Biology 69(2): 401-411. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz043

Kamura, T. (2020). A new genus of the subfamily Zelotinae (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), with descriptions of two new species from Amami-Ōshima Island, southwest Japan. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 1-9. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.1

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2020a). On three new species of jumping spiders of the genera Habrocestum Simon, 1876, Stenaelurillus Simon, 1886 and Tamigalesus Żabka, 1988 (Araneae, Salticidae) from Sri Lanka. Evolutionary Systematics 4: 5-19. doi:10.3897/evolsyst.4.47578

Kanesharatnam, N. & Benjamin, S. P. (2020b). First record of Synagelides Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Salticidae) from Sri Lanka: description of four endemic species from tropical wet forest of the island. Zootaxa 4790(1): 43-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.2

Kovács, G. & Szinetár, C. (2020). Adatok a nagy eretnekpók (Amaurobius ferox [Walckenaer, 1830]) biológiájához (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) [Data on the biology of Amaurobius ferox (Walckenaer, 1830) (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)]. Biológia Savaria Természettudományi és Sporttudományi Közlemények 18: 75-92.

Kůrka, A., Naumova, M., Indzhov, S. & Deltshev, C. (2020). New faunistic and taxonomic data on the spider fauna of Albania (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 8-21. doi:10.30963/aramit5903

Lan, T. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Two new species of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guizhou and Guangxi, China. Zootaxa 4758(2): 360-368. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4758.2.9

Lan, T. Q., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G., Wongprom, P. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). Five new species of the spider genus Savarna Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Thailand. Zootaxa 4778(2): 311-328. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4778.2.4

Lecigne, S. (2020). Sur quelques observations intéressantes d’araignées du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais (France) - 1re note. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 45-60.

LeMay, G. A. & Agnarsson, I. (2020). New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America. ZooKeys 915: 17-24. doi:10.3897/zookeys.915.47563

Li, D. Q., Liu, F. X., Li, D. Q. & Xu, X. (2020). Two new species of the primitively segmented spider genus Songthela from Hunan Province, China (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 937: 1-19. doi:10.3897/zookeys.937.50548

Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Taxonomic studies on six species of the genus Plator (Araneae: Trochanteriidae) from China. Zoological Systematics 45(1): 24-39. doi:10.11865/zs.202003

Lin, Y. J., Shao, L., Hänggi, A., Caleb, J. T. D., Koh, J. K. H., Jäger, P. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia. ZooKeys 911: 67-99. doi:10.3897/zookeys.911.38761

Lin, Y. J., Li, S. Q. & Chen, H. F. (2020). First report of the spider genus Desis (Araneae, Desidae) from China, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4755(3): 593-597. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4755.3.11

Lin, Y. J., Chang, W.-J. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Dysdera dushengi sp. nov., the easternmost species of the spider family Dysderidae (Arachnida: Araneae). Zoological Systematics 45(2): 97-103. doi:10.11865/zs.202014

Lin, Y. J. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). A new nemesiid spider from Lianhua Cave, Guangxi, China (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 2-4. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.002

Liu, K. K., Xu, X., Sheng, H. J. & Yin, H. Q. (2020a). A new species of the genus Jacaena Thorell, 1897 (Araneae: Liocranidae) from China. Pan-Pacific Entomologist 95(3-4, 2019): 127-137. doi:10.3956/2019-95.3.127

Liu, K. K., Yin, H. Q., Haddad, C. R., Xu, X. & Ma, Z. N. (2020b). Two new species of Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 from southern China, with an updated key to the Chinese species (Araneae: Trachelidae). Zootaxa 4803(1): 87-102. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4803.1.5

Liu, K. K., Luo, H. P., Xu, X., Chen, Z. & Xiao, Y. H. (2020c). Description of two new species of Tonsilla Wang & Yin, 1992 with an updated key to species (Araneae, Agelenidae). ZooKeys 944: 31-46. doi:10.3897/zookeys.944.48575

Liu, K. K., Luo, H. P., Ying, Y. H., Xiao, Y. X., Xu, X. & Xiao, Y. H. (2020d). A survey of Phrurolithidae spiders from Jinggang Mountain National Nature Reserve, Jiangxi Province, China. ZooKeys 946: 1-37. doi:10.3897/zookeys.947.51175

Logunov, D. V. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2020a). A new species of Dendryphantes C. L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Caucasus, with notes on the state of knowledge of the dendryphantines in the Old World. Arachnology 18(4): 329-332. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.329

Logunov, D. V. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2020b). New species and records of Salticidae (Aranei) from Turkmenistan and neighbouring countries. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 67-81. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.05

Lozano, J. A. & Alameda-Martín, A. (2020). Aportación al conocimiento de las arañas (Araneae) de la provincia de Cuenca (Castilla La Mancha, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 173-177.

Lucas, S. M., Passanha, V. & Brescovit, A. D. (2020). New combination and redescription of Bumba humile, description of four new species and new records from Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae). Zoologia 37(e46744): 1-17. doi:10.3897/zoologia.37.e46744

Luis de la Iglesia, J. A. (2020). Primera cita en España de Nemesia bacelarae Decae, Cardoso & Selden, 2007 (Araneae, Nemesiidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 91-96.

Maddison, W. P., Maddison, D. R., Derkarabetian, S. & Hedin, M. (2020). Sitticine jumping spiders: phylogeny, classification, and chromosomes (Araneae, Salticidae, Sitticini). ZooKeys 925: 1-54. doi:10.3897/zookeys.925.39691

Magalhaes, I. L. F., Azevedo, G. H. F, Michalik, P. & Ramírez, M. J. (2020). The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic. Biological Reviews 95(1): 184-217. doi:10.1111/brv.12559

Mariante, R. M. & Hill, D. E. (2020). First report of the Asian jumping spider Menemerus nigli (Araneae: Salticidae: Chrysillini) in Brazil. Peckhamia 205.1: 1-21.

Martínez, L., Flórez-Daza, E. & Brescovit, A. D. (2020). Two new species of the armored spider genus Tetrablemma O. P.-Cambridge, 1873 from northern South America (Araneae: Synspermiata: Tetrablemmidae). Zootaxa 4743(1): 92-102. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4743.1.7

Marusik, Y. M., Otto, S. & Japoshvili, G. (2020). Taxonomic notes on Amaurobius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae), including the description of a new species. Zootaxa 4718(1): 47-56. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4718.1.3

Marusik, Y. M., Omelko, M. M. & Simonov, P. S. (2020). A redescription of Aculepeira matsudae (Aranei: Araneidae), a species recently found in Far East Russia. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 121-126. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.10

Marusik, Y. M. & Nekhaeva, A. A. (2020). Redescription of two poorly known Arctic Hilaira species (Aranei: Linyphiidae) with notes on species grouping. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 133-140. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.12

Matysiak, J.-P. (2020). La Noble Fausse Veuve Steatoda nobilis (Thorell, 1875) - Araneae, Theridiidae, dans le Nord de la France. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 63-66.

Mbo, Z. & Haddad, C. R. (2020). Remarks on two poorly known Dionycha spiders from the Afrotropical Region (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae, Liocranidae). Arachnology 18(4): 325-328. doi:10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.325

Mendoza, J. & Francke, O. (2020). Systematic revision of Mexican threatened tarantulas Brachypelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae), with a description of a new genus, and implications on the conservation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 188(1): 82-147. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlz046

Mikhailov, K. G. & Golovatch, S. I. (2020). The exact publication date in Arthropoda Selecta – what does this mean?. Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 151-153. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.14

Mohagan, A. B., Patano, R. R. Jr., Dargantes, K. S. A. T., Melencion, M. G., Coritico, F. P. & Amoroso, V. B. (2020). New record of Talthybia depressa (Araneae: Araneidae) from the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Science 149(3): 523-527.

Molina-Gómez, D., Pizzetti, D. D. P. & Teixeira, R. A. (2020). Taxonomic notes on Stephanopoides (Araneae: Thomisidae): new records and description of the male of S. cognata. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 55(1): 51-57. doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1694800

Montemor, V. M., West, R. C., Zamani, A., Moradmand, M., Wirth, V. von, Wendt, I., Huber, S. & Guadanucci, J. P. L. (2020). Taxonomy of the genus Ischnocolus in the Middle East, with description of a new species from Oman and Iran (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zoology in the Middle East 66(1): 76-90. doi:10.1080/09397140.2020.1675994

Muster, C. & Michalik, P. (2020). Cryptic diversity in ant‐mimic Micaria spiders (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and a tribute to early naturalists. Zoologica Scripta 49(2): 197-209 & Appendices. doi:10.1111/zsc.12404

Nafin, K. S., Maddison, W. P. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). The first described male of the Asian jumping spider genus Piranthus Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Baviini). Peckhamia 207.1: 1-7.

Najim, S. A. & Al-Hadlag, K. S. (2020). First record of Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959 (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Iraq. Journal of Animal Diversity 2(1): 141-145. doi:10.29252/JAD.2020.2.1.6

Nanayakkara, R. P., Ganehiarachi, G. A. S. M., Kusuminda, T., Vishvanath, N., Karunaratne, M. K. & Kirk, P. (2020). A new species of Tiger spider in the genus Poecilotheria Pocock, 1899 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Belihuloya, Sri Lanka. Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(3, 2019): 3-17. [publ. in Jan. 2020]

Naumova, M. (2020). Descriptions of two new spider species, with new data on the Albanian arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones and Scorpiones). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 72(1): 3-12.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020). How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 22-29. doi:10.30963/aramit5904

Nicoletta, M., Chaparro, J. C., Mamani, L., Ochoa, J. A., West, R. C. & Ferretti, N. E. (2020). Two new endemic species of Bistriopelma (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Peru, including a new remarkable horned tarantula. European Journal of Taxonomy 644: 1-20. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.644

Okumura, K.-I. (2020). Description of the male of Coelotes insulanus Shimojana, 2000, and females of Coelotes osamui Nishikawa, 2009 and Draconarius dialeptus Okumura, 2013 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo (A) 46(2): 41-48.

Omelko, M. M. & Fomichev, A. A. (2020). Redescription of a poorly known species Nesticella kerzhneri (Marusik, 1987) (Aranei: Nesticidae). Far Eastern Entomologist 410: 11-16. doi:10.25221/fee.410.2

Opatova, V., Hamilton, C. A., Hedin, M., Montes de Oca, L., Král, J. & Bond, J. E. (2020). Phylogenetic systematics and evolution of the spider infraorder Mygalomorphae using genomic scale data. Systematic Biology 69(4): 671-707. doi:10.1093/sysbio/syz064

Palita, S. K., De, K., Choudhury, S. R. & Das, S. K. (2020). First report of the lynx spider Oxyopes sertatus L. Koch, 1878 (Araneae: Oxyopidae) from India. Serket 17(2): 136-138.

Pantini, P., Bonelli, D. & Bonacci, T. (2020). I ragni epigei (Arachnida, Araneae) di un ambiente litoraneo della Calabria. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 32: 25-32.

Pantoja, P., Drago-Bisneto, M. & Saturnino, R. (2020). Updates on Berlandiella (Araneae: Philodromidae): a new species, description of the male of B. querencia and new diagnosis for the genus. Zoologia 37(e37384): 1-13. doi:10.3897/zoologia.37.e37384

Patoleta, B. M., Gardzińska, J. & Żabka, M. (2020). Salticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) of Thailand: new species and records of Epeus Peckham & Peckham, 1886 and Ptocasius Simon, 1885. PeerJ 8(e9352): 1-23.

Paul, J., Prajapati, D. A., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020). Description of a new species of Colaxes Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae: Ballinae) from the tropical montane cloud forests of Western Ghats, India. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 244-250. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.10

Peng, X. J. (2020). Fauna Sinica, Invertebrata 53, Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae. Science Press, Beijing, 612 pp.

Perger, R. & Rubio, G. D. (2020). Contributions to the knowledge of Neotropical ant-like spiders: Myrmecotypus tahyinandu sp. n. from Bolivian Chiquitano forest, a new country record for M. niger, and indirect evidence for species-specific mimicry (Araneae: Corinnidae: Castianeirinae). Zootaxa 4790(1): 151-164. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4790.1.9

Pett, B. L. & Jocqué, R. (2020). Description of two new species of Xevioso (Araneae: Phyxelididae) from Southern Africa, with the northernmost localities for the genus. European Journal of Taxonomy 636: 1-18. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.636

Pett, B. L. & Wyer, R. (2020). First confirmed record of the genus Cybaeodamus (Araneae: Zodariidae) in Paraguay, with notes on its distribution. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 161-162.

Prajapati, D. A. & Kamboj, R. D. (2020). Additional morphological notes on the male of Icius alboterminus (Caleb, 2014) (Aranei: Salticidae) with new distribution records from India. Journal of Threatened Taxa 12(4): 15475-15480. doi:10.11609/jott.5371.12.4.15475-15480

Prasad, P., Tyagi, K. & Kumar, V. (2020). First report of the cob-web spider Coleosoma blandum O. Pickard-Cambridge (Araneae: Theridiidae) with comments on its distribution from India. Munis Entomology and Zoology 15(1): 96-99.

Prete, P. H. & Brescovit, A. D. (2020). A new species of Cuacuba (Araneae, Theridiosomatidae) from Brazilian caves. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 55(2): 109-115. doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1704386

Ríos-Tamayo, D. (2020). Three new species of Euathlus Ausserer, 1875 (Araneae, Theraphosidae) from Argentina. Studies on Neotropical Fauna and Environment 55(2): 83-95. doi:10.1080/01650521.2019.1696653

Ríos-Tamayo, D. & Lyle, R. (2020). The South African genus Lepthercus Purcell, 1902 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): phylogeny and taxonomy. Zootaxa 4766(2): 261-305. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4766.2.2

Rivera-Quiroz, F. A., Schilthuizen, M., Petcharad, B. & Miller, J. A. (2020). Imperfect and askew: a review of asymmetric genitalia in araneomorph spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae). PLoS One 15(6, e0220354): 1-26. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0220354

Rodrigues, B. V. B., Cizauskas, I. & Lemos, Y. (2020). A new genus of cave spider from Neotropical region (Gnaphosidae: Prodidominae). Zootaxa 4722(1): 77-83. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.1.7

Rodrigues, B. V. B. & Rheims, C. A. (2020b). An overview of the African genera of Prodidominae spiders: descriptions and remarks (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Zootaxa 4799(1): 1-80. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4799.1.1 1-80

Rubio, G. D., Stolar, C. E., Nadal, M. F. & Baigorria, J. E. (2020). The jumping spider Tapsatella albocastanea, a new genus and species from Argentina (Araneae: Salticidae: Freyina). Peckhamia 203.1: 1-9.

Sánchez-Ruiz, A. & Maréchal, P. (2020). Description of the male of Alpaida elegantula (Araneae, Araneidae) and new records of spider genera from Martinique, Lesser Antilles. Caribbean Journal of Science 50(1): 48-53. doi:10.18475/cjos.v50i1.a7

Sánchez-Ruiz, A., Brescovit, A. D. & Bonaldo, A. B. (2020). Revision of the spider genus Nyetnops Platnick & Lise (Araneae: Caponiidae) with proposition of the new genus Nopsma, from Central and South America. Zootaxa 4751(3): 461-486. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4751.3.3

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D., Joseph, M. M. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020). On a new synonymy in the spider genus Nephila Leach, 1815 (Araneidae, Nephilinae) from India with supplementary notes on colour polymorphism in the genus. Zootaxa 4786(4): 592-596. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.4.11

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020a). On the taxonomic validity of Indian ground spiders: II. Genera Drassyllus Chamberlin, 1922 and Nodocion Chamberlin, 1922 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 673: 1-14. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.673

Sankaran, P. M., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sebastian, P. A. (2020b). A new Indian species of the orb-weaving spider genus Glenognatha Simon, 1887, with a new combination and a new synonymy of Tylorida marmorea (Pocock, 1901) (Araneae, Tetragnathinae). Zootaxa 4808(1): 196-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.12

Schäfer, M. (2020). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der griechischen Insel Kreta mit der Erstbeschreibung von Pellenes florii sp. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 59: 72-87. doi:10.30963/aramit5910

Scharff, N., Coddington, J. A., Blackledge, T. A., Agnarsson, I., Framenau, V. W., Szűts, T., Hayashi, C. Y. & Dimitrov, D. (2020). Phylogeny of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Cladistics 36(1): 1-21. doi:10.1111/cla.12382

Schubert, J. (2020). Seven new species of Australian peacock spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryini: Maratus Karsch, 1878). Zootaxa 4758(1): 1-44. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4758.1.1

Sekhar, R. & Sunil Jose, K. (2020). Additional observations on Chrysso angula (Tikader) from Kerala (Araneae: Theridiidae). Indian Journal of Entomology 81(4, 2019): 880-882. [publ. in Jan. 2020] doi:10.5958/0974-8172.2019.00152.4

Seyfulina, R. R., Azarkina, G. N. & Kartsev, V. M. (2020). A contribution to the knowledge of jumping spiders from Thailand (Aranei: Salticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 87-96. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.07

Seyyar, O. & Demir, H. (2020a). Cedicus flavipes Simon, 1875 (Araneae: Cybaeidae) is a new spider record from Turkey. Serket 17(2): 114-116.

Seyyar, O. & Demir, H. (2020b). Further notes on a little known spider species, Zelotes strandi (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Anatolia. Serket 17(2): 117-120.

Seyyar, O. & Demir, H. (2020c). Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) is a new spider record from Turkey. Serket 17(2): 133-135.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2020a). Complimentary morphological data for the theraphosid spider Sickius longibulbi Soares & Camargo, 1948 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 26: 26-32.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2020b). Lectotype designation for the selenocosmiine spider Chilobrachys tschankhoensis Schenkel, 1963 with notes on its taxonomic placement (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 26: 33-38.

Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. (2020c). Redescription of the enigmatic Costa Rican spider Aenigmarachne sinapophysis Schmidt, 2005 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 440-443.

Sherwood, D., Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Gabriel, R. & Lucas, S. M. (2020). Redescription of Nesipelma insulare Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996 with a revised generic diagnosis for Nesipelma Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996 and a transfer from Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 462-467.

Sudhin, P. P., Nafin, K. S., Caleb, J. T. D. & Sudhikumar, A. V. (2020). Redescription of Asemonea cristata Thorell, 1895 (Araneae: Salticidae: Asemoneinae), with notes on its synonymy and distribution. Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 251-256. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.11

Suguro, T. (2020a). First record of Lycopus longissimus Tang & Li 2010 (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Okinawa Island in Japan. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 23-25. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.23

Suguro, T. (2020b). Japanese spiders of the genus Stertinius (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 55-60. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.55

Sunil Jose, K. (2020). A new species of megalomorph [sic] spider Neoheterophrictus from Western Ghats. Indian Journal of Entomology 81(4, 2019): 667-669. [publ. in Jan. 2020] doi:10.5958/0974-8172.2019.00195.0

Suzuki, Y. (2020). First description of predatory behavior in Cnodalia harpax (Araneae: Araneidae). Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 49-54. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.49

Tamajón Gómez, R., Pertegal Pérez, C. & Rodríguez Castilla, G. (2020). Primeros registros de Ischnocolus valentinus (Dufour, 1820) (Araneae: Theraphosidae) en la provincia de Córdoba (Andalucía, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 36: 165-166.

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020a). Asiafroneta, a new genus of the spider subfamily Mynogleninae, with two new species from Borneo, East Malaysia (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 56-61. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2020-0006

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020b). Two new Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883 from eastern India (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 127-131. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.1.11

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020c). On linyphiid spiders from Java, Indonesia, with the description of three new genera and four new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 127(1): 63-74. doi:10.35929/RSZ.0006

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020d). Two new linyphiid species from Borneo and Sumatra (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 473-478. doi:10.26107/RBZ-2020-0065

Tanasevitch, A. V. (2020e). The genus Oedothorax Bertkau, 1883 in the Himalayas, with descriptions of four new species from Nepal (Aranei: Linyphiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(2): 283-291. doi:10.15298/arthsel.29.2.15

Tang, J., Xu, X., Yin, H. Q., Marusik, Y. M. & Huang, Z. G. (2020). Redescription of holotypes of four Alopecosa species (Araneae, Lycosidae) from China. ZooKeys 945: 85-97. doi:10.3897/zookeys.945.52287

Tanikawa, A. (2020). A new species of Araneus (Araneae: Araneidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 69(1): 11-15. doi:10.2476/asjaa.69.11

Tong, Y. F., Chen, Z. L. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Two new species of the genus Opopaea (Araneae, Oonopidae) from Myanmar. ZooKeys 917: 51-61. doi:10.3897/zookeys.917.48924

Tong, Y. F. & Li, S. Q. (2020). A new genus and two new species of oonopid spiders from Myanmar (Araneae, Oonopidae). ZooKeys 931: 21-33. doi:10.3897/zookeys.931.49638

Trotta, A. (2020). Spiders from Molise (Italy): state of knowledge, new faunistic data and taxonomic notes (Arachnida: Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 52(1): 77-83.

Valdez-Mondragón, A. (2020). COI mtDNA barcoding and morphology for species delimitation in the spider genus Ixchela Huber (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of two new species from Mexico. Zootaxa 4747(1): 54-76. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.2

Vanseveren, P.-M. (2020). Philodrome tigré Philodromus margaritatus (Clerck, 1758) - une première donnée pour le Nord. Le Héron 51(2, 2018): 61-62.

Víquez, C. (2020). Aracnofauna (Arachnida) de la Isla del Coco, Costa Rica, con la descripciónde tres nuevas especies. Revista de Biología Tropical 68(Suppl. 1): S115-S143.

Wang, C. & Li, S. Q. (2020). On eight species of jumping spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Salticidae). ZooKeys 909: 25-57. doi:10.3897/zookeys.909.47137

Wang, C., Mi, X. Q., Irfan, M. & Peng, X. J. (2020b). On two species of the spider genus Stertinius Simon, 1890 from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4786(2): 295-300. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4786.2.12

Wang, C., Gan, J. H. & Mi, X. Q. (2020). A new species of the genus Lysiteles, with the first male description of L. nudus from Guizhou, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Sichuan Journal of Zoology 39(3): 309-315. doi:10.11984/j.issn.1000-7083.20200009

Wang, H. & Zhang, F. (2020). The first recorded of the species Bavia annamita from China (Araneae: Salticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 5-8. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.003

Wang, L. Y., Zhou, G. C., Irfan, M., Yang, S. F. & Peng, X. J. (2020a). Five new species of Meta Koch, 1836 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from Gaoligong Mountains, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 624: 1-25. doi:10.5852/ejt.2020.624

Wang, L. Y., Wang, B. L. & Zhang, Z. S. (2020). [A new species of Zoropsis Simon, 1878 from China (Araneae: Zoropsidae)]. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 9-12. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.004

Wang, L. Y., Lu, Q. L. & Zhang, Z. S. (2020). [First description on the male of Orsinome diporusa Zhu, Song & Zhang, 2003 (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)]. Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 35-38. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.009

Wang, L. Y., Zhang, Z. S. & Peng, X. J. (2020). Dolichognatha bannaensis new species, a six-eyes tetragnathid spider from China (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa 4809(1): 197-200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4809.1.14

Wesołowska, W. (2020a). Kakameganula, a new name for the preoccupied Kakamega Dawidowicz & Wesołowska, 2016 (Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa 4722(5): 500. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4722.5.10

Wesołowska, W. (2020b). Authorship of the generic name Pochytoides (Araneae, Salticidae). Bionomina 18(1): 56. doi:10.11646/bionomina.18.1.3

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Xin, Y. F., Yao, Z. Y. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Two new species of the spider genus Wanniyala Huber & Benjamin, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 4759(4): 566-574. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4759.4.7

Xu, H., Zheng, G. & Yao, Z. Y. (2020). Two new species of the spider genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 4747(1): 156-166. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4747.1.6

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Zamani, A., Marusik, Y. M. & Šestáková, A. (2020). On Araniella and Neoscona (Araneae, Araneidae) of the Caucasus, Middle East and Central Asia. ZooKeys 906: 13-40. doi:10.3897/zookeys.906.47978

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Zhang, J. S., Yu, H. & Chen, J. (2020). First description of the female of Clubiona milingae Barrion-Dupo, Barrion & Heong, 2013 (Araneae, Clubionidae). Biodiversity Data Journal 8(e51789): 1-8. doi:10.3897/BDJ.8.e51789

Zhang, J. S., Yu, H. & Li, S. Q. (2020). New cheiracanthiid spiders from Xishuangbanna rainforest, southwestern China (Araneae, Cheiracanthiidae). ZooKeys 940: 51-77. doi:10.3897/zookeys.940.51802

Zhang, X. Q., Lan, T. Q., Nie, L. & Li, S. Q. (2020). Eight new species of the spider genus Pimoa (Araneae, Pimoidae) from Tibet, China. ZooKeys 940: 79-104. doi:10.3897/zookeys.940.49793

Zhao, H. F., Li, S. Q. & Zhang, A. B. (2020). Taxonomic revision of Telemidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from East and Southeast Asia. ZooKeys 933: 15-93. doi:10.3897/zookeys.933.38653

Zhong, R. & Chen, J. (2020). Redescription of hersiliids from Wuling Mountains, China and the first description of the male Hersilia xieae (Araneae: Hersiliidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 17-26. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.006

Zhou, X. W., Zhou, G. C. & Peng, X. J. (2020). Redescription of Philoponella nasuta with the first report of the female (Araneae: Uloboridae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 29(1): 30-34. doi:10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2020.01.008

Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020a). Three new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China. Zootaxa 4742(2): 332-342. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4742.2.6

Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020b). The Belisana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Tibet, China. Zootaxa 4802(1): 111-128. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4802.1.7

Zhu, W. H., Yao, Z. Y., Zheng, G. & Li, S. Q. (2020c). Six new species of the spider genus Belisana Thorell, 1898 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from southern China. Zootaxa 4810(1): 175-197. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4810.1.12

Zhu, Y., Lin, Y. J. & Zhong, Y. (2020). Two new and one newly recorded species of Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae, Sparassidae) from China. ZooKeys 940: 105-115. doi:10.3897/zookeys.940.50764

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