South America is the fourth largest continent on the planet; its birds, mammals, and
amphibian's biodiversity is relatively well known, but no outright assessment of the continent …

Pholcidae are ubiquitous spiders in tropical and subtropical caves around the globe, yet
very little is known about cave-dwelling pholcids beyond what is provided in taxonomic …

With almost 600 species, the latest molecular phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Eberle et al.
2018, BMC Evolutionary Biology) more than triples the largest previously available …

This paper provides formal descriptions of some of the unnamed taxa that were included in
the most recent molecular phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Eberle et al. 2018, BMC …

We present a comprehensive revision of the pholcid spider collection of MA González-
Sponga, who between 1998 and 2011 described 22 new genera and 51 new species of …

Zootaxa published more than a thousand papers on Araneae from 2002 to the present,
including descriptions of 3,833 new spider species and 177 new genera. Here we …

The genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 includes some of the largest pholcid spiders and is
geographically largely restricted to Central Asia, the Middle East, the Arabian Peninsula …

In this study, we report the first complete mitochondrial genome of three Mesabolivar
specimens found in the interior of N4E_0023 cave from Serra Norte (Carajás), Parauapebas …

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 …

Abstract The genus Galapa Huber, 2000 includes tiny spiders (body length< 1.5 mm)
restricted to semi-arid habitats. It has long been thought to be endemic to the Galapagos …