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 …

Highlights•We report the first known capture web built by a pirate spider, G. siquirres.•The
capture web and capture behaviour of G. siquirres are unique among spiders.•Other spiders …

We investigate the phylogeny of “pirate spiders”(Mimetidae), a family of araneophagic
spiders known for their use of aggressive mimicry as a foraging strategy, but poorly …

Mimetidae is one of the three families within Araneoidea whose members do not spin
foraging webs, but are unique in displaying a complex prey-capture behaviour known as …

Spider community inventories have relatively well-established standardized collecting
protocols. Such protocols set rules for the orderly acquisition of samples to estimate …

The genus Chorizopes (Araneae, Araneidae) includes over two dozen species of webless
araneids found mainly in the Indomalayan region. They are characterised by a distinctive …

Cylindrical silk gland (CY) spigots distinguish a large clade of modern spiders, the CY spigot
clade, which includes all entelegyne spiders and their closest relatives. Following a …

As in other Palpimanidae, two pairs of posterior spinnerets present in typical
Araneomorphae are vestigial in Palpimanus uncatus, with only the anterior lateral spinneret …

External studies of spider spinning fields allow us to make inferences about internal silk
gland biology, including what happens to silk glands when the spider molts. Such studies …

Abstract The spider genera Longissipalpus Wunderlich, 2015 and Pedipalparaneus
Wunderlich, 2015 of the extinct family Pholcochyroceridae Wunderlich, 2008, are reported …