Humpback spiders from Ecuador: relationships, prosoma 'inflation'and genital asymmetry (Araneae: Pholcidae: Mecolaesthus)

BA Huber, G Meng, N Dupérré, M Herrera… - Invertebrate …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Males of the South American spider genus Mecolaesthus Simon, 1893 are characterised by
a dorsally 'inflated'prosoma or hump. Here we describe the first representatives of the genus …

Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae)

M Guanliang, D Nadine… - European journal …, 2023 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
Abstract The Andean genus Priscula Simon, 1893 includes the largest Neotropical pholcid
spiders, but due to their mostly cryptic lifestyle they remain poorly collected and poorly …

[PDF][PDF] The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae)

JJ Astrin, B Misof, BA Huber - Zootaxa, 2007 - pholcidae.de
Abstract When the Venezuelan genus Kaliana Huber, 2000 was described, it was based on
a single male specimen that was morphologically unique among pholcid spiders, especially …

On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)

BA Huber, O Villarreal - European …, 2020 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
We present a comprehensive revision of the pholcid spider collection of MA González-
Sponga, who between 1998 and 2011 described 22 new genera and 51 new species of …

Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae)

BA Huber, G Meng… - European …, 2023 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
Abstract The North American-Caribbean genera Pholcophora Banks, 1896 and Tolteca
Huber, 2000 are representatives of Ninetinae, a group of small, cryptic, and thus poorly …

Castaways: the Leeward Antilles endemic spider genus Papiamenta (Araneae: Pholcidae)

BA Huber, G Meng, TM Dederichs… - Invertebrate …, 2024 - CSIRO Publishing
Ninetinae is a group of small to tiny short-legged spiders largely restricted to arid habitats.
Among daddy-long-legs spiders (Pholcidae) this is by far the least diverse subfamily but this …

The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits.

BA Huber - Zootaxa, 2018 - europepmc.org
The South American genera Mesabolivar González-Sponga, 1998 and Carapoia González-
Sponga, 1998 are among the most species-rich pholcid genera in the Neotropics …

On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Pholcidae)

BA Huber, LS Carvalho, SP Benjamin - Invertebrate Systematics, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
The generic placement of New World pholcids assigned to the genus Leptopholcus Simon,
1893 has long been questioned and recent molecular data have shown that Caribbean …

[PDF][PDF] A reanalysis of the morphological phylogeny of the spider genus Physocyclus Simon (Araneae: Pholcidae) with the description of a new species and description …

A Valdez-Mondragon - Zootaxa, 2014 - academia.edu
A new species of spider from Michoacán, Physocyclus peribanensis sp. nov. is described.
This description is based on a male holotype and one female paratype. Also, the first …

Evolution of genital asymmetry, exaggerated eye stalks, and extreme palpal elongation in Panjange spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae)

B Huber, OM Nuñeza - European Journal of …, 2015 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
We describe several new species of the previously monotypic Panjange lanthana species
group from the Philippines and document their extraordinary morphology. Some species …