In the last 15 years understanding of the higher systematics of Araneae has changed
greatly. Large classical superfamilies and families have turned out to be poly-or …

▪ Abstract Silks belong to the class of molecules called structural proteins. The ability to
produce silk proteins has evolved multiple times in the arthropods, and silk secreting glands …

ABSTRACT Spiders (Order Araneae) are massively abundant generalist arthropod
predators that are found in nearly every ecosystem on the planet and have persisted for over …

ABSTRACT A phylogenetic analysis of the two-clawed spiders grouped in Dionycha is
presented, with 166 representative species of 49 araneomorph families, scored for 393 …

El libro tiene una estructura tan simple como su título. Tras unos capítulos iniciales
introductorios, siguen los de claves de identificación y 107 subcapítulos dedicados cada …

Hypotheses regarding the function of elaborate male genitalia were tested in a sample of
insects and spiders by comparing their allometric values (slopes in log‐log regressions on …

Life originated in anoxia, but many organisms came to depend upon oxygen for survival,
independently evolving diverse respiratory systems for acquiring oxygen from the …

This catalogue contains the taxonomy of all known scorpions recorded from 1758-December
31, 1998. It contains the following currently valid extant taxa: 16 families; 16 subfamilies; 155 …

This phylogenetic analysis of 31 exemplar taxa treats the 12 families of Araneoidea
(Anapidae, Araneidae, Cyatholipidae, Linyphiidae, Mysmenidae, Nesticidae, Pimoidae …

We present the first cladistic analysis focused at the tribal and subfamily level of the orb-
weaving spider family Araneidae. The data matrix of 82 characters scored for 57 arancid …