When faced with the daunting and exciting task of studying biodiversity, one must
necessarily come to terms with a few challenging knowledge gaps, the so‐called …

Spiders are mega diverse arthropods and play an important role in the ecosystem.
Identification of this group is challenging due to their cryptic behavior, sexual dimorphism …

The Neotropical region is the most diverse on the planet, largely owing to its mosaic of
tropical rainforests. Multiple tectonic and climatic processes have been hypothesized to …

Leptonetidae are tiny, rarely encountered spiders that mainly inhabit moist environments,
such as caves, leaf litter, and rock piles. Because they are microhabitat specialists, most …

Morphological study of 1,795 spiders from sites across Pakistan placed these specimens in
27 families and 202 putative species. COI sequences> 400 bp recovered from 1,782 …

The infraorder Araneomorphae comprises more than nine-tenths of spider diversity,
including most of the better known web-weaving spiders. As observed for other taxa, the …

Arachnology in the Neotropical region has been greatly benefited by the relatively recent
development and establishment of research groups in Central and South America and …

DNA barcode sequencing has rapidly become one of the most powerful tools for biodiversity
assessments. Beyond its original uses for the identification of animal species, including the …

As part of a revision of the Afrotropical species of Trachelas L. Koch, 1872 (Araneae:
Trachelidae), we distinguished three new genera of primarily arboreal spiders from southern …

Spiny orb-weavers of the genera Actinacantha, Gasteracantha, Macracantha, and
Thelacantha are spiders with rigid abdomens and prominent spines that are mostly endemic …