Araneae (spiders) of South America: a synopsis of current knowledge

N Dupérré - New Zealand Journal of Zoology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
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 …

Diversity of terrestrial invertebrates in subterranean habitats

L Deharveng, A Bedos - Cave ecology, 2018 - Springer
This chapter deals with the diversity of terrestrial cave invertebrates from the viewpoint of its
contribution to global diversity and of the variety of morphological traits and life forms …

A revised dated phylogeny of scorpions: phylogenomic support for ancient divergence of the temperate Gondwanan family Bothriuridae

PP Sharma, CM Baker, JG Cosgrove… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
The scorpion family Bothriuridae occupies a subset of landmasses formerly constituting East
and West temperate Gondwana, but its relationship to other scorpion families is in question …

Old and cold: Diverse phylogenomic datasets support an ancient transantarctic dispersive route on the scorpion family Bothriuridae in temperate Gondwana

AA Ojanguren-Affilastro, J Pizarro-Araya… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this contribution we try to unveil the diversification process of Bothriuridae in temperate
Gondwana through dated phylogenomic analyses using UCE and transcriptomics, and …

The 'Peripatos' in Eurogondwana?–Lack of evidence that south-east Asian onychophorans walked through Europe

G Giribet, RS Buckman-Young, CS Costa… - Invertebrate …, 2018 - CSIRO Publishing
Onychophorans, or velvet worms, are cryptic but extremely charismatic terrestrial
invertebrates that have often been the subject of interesting biogeographic debate. Despite …

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the temperate Gondwanan family Triaenonychidae (Opiliones: Laniatores) reveals pre-Gondwanan regionalisation …

CM Baker, K Sheridan, S Derkarabetian… - Invertebrate …, 2020 - CSIRO Publishing
Triaenonychidae Sørensen in L. Koch, 1886 is a large family of Opiliones with~ 480
described species broadly distributed across temperate forests in the Southern Hemisphere …

Closing a biogeographic gap: a new pettalid genus from South Australia (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi: Pettalidae) with a UCE-based phylogeny of …

G Giribet, M Shaw, A Lord… - Invertebrate …, 2022 - CSIRO Publishing
Pettalidae is a family of mite harvestmen that inhabits the former circum-Antarctic
Gondwanan terranes, including southern South America, South Africa, Madagascar, Sri …

Tectonically driven climate change and the spread of temperate biomes: Insights from dragon pseudoscorpions (Pseudotyrannochthoniidae), a globally distributed …

D Harms, MS Harvey, JD Roberts… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the historical biogeography of the Earth's oldest terrestrial lineages
provides insights into lineage diversification in relation to plate tectonics, climate change …

A well‐resolved transcriptomic phylogeny of the mite harvestman family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) reveals signatures of Gondwanan …

CM Baker, SL Boyer, G Giribet - Journal of Biogeography, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Aim We explored the extent to which Gondwanan vicariance contributed to the circum‐
Antarctic distribution of the mite harvestman family Pettalidae, a group of small, dispersal …

Systematics, phylogeny and biogeography of the Australasian leaf-curling orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae: Zygiellinae), with a comparative analysis of …

RJ Kallal, G Hormiga - Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We revise and monograph the Australasian clade of the araneid subfamily Zygiellinae FO
Pickard-Cambridge. Several members of this clade construct conspicuous leaf retreats at the …