Background The immense geologic and ecological complexity of the Caribbean has created
a natural laboratory for interpreting when and how organisms disperse through time and …

While historic efforts to document the arachnofauna of the Gulf of Guinea islands have
primarily been the result of fortuitous collecting by non-specialists, recent efforts have been …

Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao (ABC Islands) are located at the southern margin of the
Caribbean Plate, just north of South America. Little is known of the arachnid fauna of these …

We report the discovery of two wasp species emerging from egg sacs of the spider
Cyrtophoracitricola (Forskål 1775) collected from mainland Spain and the Canary Islands …

The spider genus Oxyopes Latreille occurs throughout the world, but is insufficiently known
in South America and the Caribbean. In this study, three apparently related species of this …

Spiders were opportunistically collected in 2006 and 2007 in the Turks and Caicos Islands
during focused collecting of selenopid spiders. These samples were combined with a …

Recent new records of Cyrtophora citricola (Forskål, 1775) from the Western Hemisphere
has stimulated study in its native range for possible comparison with introduced populations …