The male of the Florida funnel-web building wolf spider species Sosippus placidus is
described and figured for the first time. Analysis of the male palp's morphological structure …

The American gnaphosid genus Apopyllus Platnick & Shadab is found from southern Mexico
to southern Argentina. It can be diagnosed by the complex shape of the RTA, by the …

The spider subfamily Schismatothelinae from Colombia is revised. One new species of
Euthycaelus Simon 1889 and three new species of Schismatothele Karsch 1879 are named …

The extreme sexual size dimorphism of some spiders has long attracted the attention of
biologists and triggered countless prominent studies on the phenomenon. This, in turn, has …

Pholcids are among the dominant web-building spiders in many tropical and subtropical
areas of the World. They occupy a wide variety of habitats ranging from leaf-litter to tree …

The genus Physocyclus (Pholcidae) is widely distributed in North and Central America, with
the exception of the Antilles (Platnick 2013). Physocyclus species are found in various …

Although sexual size dimorphism is a widely observed phenomenon in nature, the selective
forces that led to it are still controversial. Here we study sexual dimorphism in the static …

Contributions to the taxonomy and distribution of the genus Mesabolivar in southern South
America (Araneae: Pholcidae) Page 1 Accepted by Wouter Fannes: 24 May 2013; published …

The spider clade Gnaphosoidea gathers dionychans with obliquely angled posterior median
eyes with flat lenses (Platnick, 1990), which would be part of a compass mechanism rather …

Abstract The spider genus Ancylometes Bertkau, 1880 is revised. A. vulpes Bertkau, 1880,
type species of the genus, is considered a junior subjective synonym of Dolomedes concolor …