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Editor, Barbara Baehr (BarbaraB@qm.qld.gov.au) Entelegynae reliquae
Biodiversity, Arachnology, Queensland Museum, South Bank, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane Qld 4101, Australia  

Editor, Gustavo Hormiga
(hormiga@gwu.edu) Araneae:
Araneoidea & Deinopoidea
Ruth Weintraub Professor of Biology Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University Washington, D.C. 20052, USA
Editor, Dr P. Jäger
(Peter.Jaeger@Senckenberg.deDictynoidea
Arachnologie, Senckenberg Museum, Senckenberganlage 25, D-60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Editor, Miller, Jeremy A. (miller@naturalis.nl) Araneae: Amaurobioidea 
Department of Entomology, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis, Postbus 9517 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands

Editor, Christoph Muster
(muster@rz.uni-leipzig.de) Dionycha ad part (Laterigradae: Philodromidae, Selenopidae, Sparassidae, Thomisidae) 
Neukamp.29, 18581 Putbus, Germany

Editor, Martin Ramirez (ramirez@macn.gov.ar) Dionycha (Gnaphosoidea: Ammoxenidae, Cithaeronidae, Corinnidae, Gallieniellidae, Gnaphosidae, Lamponidae, Liocranidae, Prodidomidae, Trochanteriidae)
División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, Av. Angel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR Buenos Aires, Argentina

Editor, Dr R. J.  Raven (RobertR@qm.qld.gov.au) Mesothelae & Mygalomorphae
Senior Biodiversity Scientist (Arachnology), Queensland Museum, Grey St, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, 4101, Q. Australia
Editor,
Milan Rezác (rezac@vurv.cz) Haplogynae (Dysderidae)
Crop Research Institute Department of Entomology Drnovská 507 CZ-161 06 Prague 6-Ruzyne Czech Republic

Editor, Michael Rix (
michael.rix@museum.wa.gov.au) Eresoidea & Palpimanoidea
Terrestrial Zoology - Invertebrates Western Australian Museum 49 Kew Street, Welshpool, WA 6106, Australia
Editor, Cor J. Vink
(Cor.Vink@agresearch.co.nz) Lycosoidea
Biosecurity Group, AgResearch, Lincoln Science Centre, Private Bag 4749, Christchurch 8140, New Zealand

Editor,
Wouter Fannes (wouter.fannes@africamuseum.be) Haplogynae (excl. Dysderidae)
Section Invertebrates non-insects, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Leuvensesteenweg 13, Tervuren, Vlaams Brabant, Belgium 3080
Editor, Tamas Szuts (tamas.szuts@gmail.com) Dionycha (Anyphaenidae, Clubionidae, Salticidae)
California Academy of Sciences, Department of Entomology, 55 Music Concourse Drive, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA 94118, USA


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2012

Correspondence
Zootaxa 3317: 65–68 (18 May 2012) 3 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
Description of a new species of the genus Zimiromus from Argentina (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)
LORENA V. ZAPATA & CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO (Argentina)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3315: 65–68 (16 May 2012) 4 plates; 6 references                  Accepted: 13 Apr. 2012
A new species of Caloctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Colombia
NICOLAS A. HAZZI (Colombia) & DIANA SILVA DAVILA (Perú)

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Article
Zootaxa 3312: 1–44 (14 May 2012) 32 plates; 56 references                  Accepted: 29 Dec. 2011
The placement of the spider genus Periegops and the phylogeny of Scytodoidea (Araneae: Araneomorphae)
FACUNDO M. LABARQUE & MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3309: 68 (11 May 2012)
Erratum: MALUMBRES-OLARTE, JAGOBA & VINK, COR J. (2012) Redescription of Clubiona blesti Forster, 1979 (Araneae: Clubionidae) with a preliminary molecular phylogeny of New Zealand Clubiona. Zootaxa, 3277, 27–42.
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Article
Zootaxa 3307: 62–68 (10 May 2012) 3 plates; 10 references                  Accepted: 10 Apr. 2012
Two new species of the ant spider genus Asceua Thorell, 1887 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from China
BAO-SHI ZHANG, FENG ZHANG & XIAO-MEI JIA (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3305: 28–52 (9 May 2012) 13 plates; 25 references                   Accepted: 21 Mar. 2012
Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders. V. A new lycosoid genus from eastern Australia (Araneae: Tengellidae)
ROBERT J RAVEN (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3302: 61–65 (7 May 2012) 3 plates; 7 references                  Accepted: 19 Mar. 2012
Notes on two Draconarius species (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Guizhou, China
XIAOXIAO WANG, SAN’AN WU & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3299: 44–60 (3 May 2012) 13 plates; 11 references                  Accepted: 22 Mar. 2012
New taxonomic data on the sac spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Clubionidae) from China, with description of a new species
HAO YU, ZIXUAN SUN & GUREN ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3299: 1–43 (3 May 2012) 14 plates; 109 references                  Accepted: 8 Mar. 2012
A new tarantula genus, Psednocnemis, from West Malaysia (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with cladistic analyses and biogeography of Selenocosmiinae Simon 1889
RICK C. WEST (Canada), STEVEN C. NUNN (Australia) & STEPHEN HOGG (Malaysia)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 3289: 1–271 (30 Apr. 2012) 226 plates; 37 references                 Accepted: 22 Feb. 2012   
New Species of the Spider Genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China
ZHIYUAN YAO & SHUQIANG LI
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Monograph
Zootaxa 3284: 1–104 (30 Apr. 2012) 80 plates; 35 references                 Accepted: 17 Jan. 2012   
An overview of Afrotropical canopy-dwelling Orchestina (Araneae, Oonopidae), with a wealth of remarkable sexual dimorphic characters
ARNAUD HENRARD & RUDY JOCQUÉ
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Article
Zootaxa 3277: 27–42 (24 Apr. 2012) 9 plates; 48 references                  Accepted: 8 Mar. 2012
Redescription of Clubiona blesti Forster, 1979 (Araneae: Clubionidae) with a preliminary molecular phylogeny of New Zealand Clubiona
JAGOBA MALUMBRES-OLARTE & COR J. VINK (New Zealand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3265: 1–21 (10 Apr. 2012) 12 plates; 36 references                  Accepted: 2 Mar. 2012
Esophyllas, a new genus of erigonine spiders from southern California (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Erigoninae) 
THOMAS R. PRENTICE & RICHARD A. REDAK (USA)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3243: 65–68 (22 Mar. 2012) 4 plates; 4 references                  Accepted: 14 Feb. 2012
A new species of Chrysilla Thorell, 1887 from China (Araneae: Salticidae) 

LU-YU WANG & ZHI-SHENG ZHANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3241: 64–68 (21 Mar. 2012) 2 plates; 23 references                  Accepted: 13 Feb. 2012
Two new species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from China 
FENG ZHANG, BAO-SHI ZHANG & XIAO-MEI JIA (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3235: 35–44 (15 Mar. 2012) 6 plates; 22 references                  Accepted: 7 Feb. 2012
First record of the wolf spider subfamily Artoriinae and the genus Artoria from China (Araneae: Lycosidae) 

ZONGXU LI (China), VOLKER W. FRAMENAU (Australia) & ZHI-SHENG ZHANG (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3228: 61–68 (9 Mar. 2012) 5 plates; 12 references                   Accepted: 20 Feb. 2012
New species of the spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparassinae) from Laos 
PETER JÄGER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3201: 1–26 (21 Feb. 2012) 20 plates; 16 references                     Accepted: 30 Dec. 2011
A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Aysenia Tullgren (Ara-neae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae) 

MARÍA E. GONZÁLEZ MÁRQUEZ & MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3200: 6 1–68 (21 Feb. 2012) 5 plate; 5 references                     Accepted: 10 Jan. 2012
Two new Rhitymna species (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Hainan Island, China 
DAN QUAN & JIE LIU (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3187: 43–53 (9 Feb. 2012) 8 plate; 6 references                           Accepted: 20 Dec. 2011
New species of Anaptomecus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
MARIEL E. GUALA (Argentina), FACUNDO M. LABARQUE (Argentina) & CRISTINA A. RHEIMS (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3176: 61–68 (27 Jan. 2012) 6 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 02 Dec. 2011
Phlegra Simon, 1876, Phintella Strand 1906 and Yamangalea Maddison, 2009 (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)— new species and new generic recordsfor Australia
MAREK
ŻABKA (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 3172: 1–19 (25 Jan. 2012) 11 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2011
Catanduba, a new Theraphosinae spider genus from Central Brazil (Araneae, Theraphosidae)
FLÁVIO U. YAMAMOTO, SYLVIA M. LUCAS & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3167: 53–56 (20 Jan. 2012) 2 plates; 5 references                      Accepted: 22 Nov. 2011
A new species of the genus Clubiona Latreille (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Hainan Island, China
BIRAN ZHU, HAIQING REN & JIAN CHEN (China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 3162: 60–64 (17 Jan. 2012) 3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 21 Oct. 2011
On two species of the spider genus Sphecozone O.P.-Cambridge and a case of
hermaphroditism in Sphecozone personata (Simon, 1864) (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
EVERTON NEI LOPES RODRIGUES, RICARDO OTT & MILTON DE S. MENDONÇA, JR (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 3161: 37–47 (16 Jan. 2012) 7 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 17 Nov. 2011
Three new species of the oonopid spider genus Ischnothyreus (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Tioman Island (Malaysia)
YVONNE KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER (Switzerland)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3160: 1–68 (13 Jan. 2012) 50 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 03 Oct. 2011
Morphology of new Indian/Indonesian Gamasomorpha and Xestaspis species (Araneae: Oonopidae) 

BEATA EICHENBERGER, YVONNE KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER, RICARDO OTT, WERNER GRABER, WOLFGANG NENTWIG, CHRISTIAN KROPF

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Article
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3158: 53–59 (12 Jan. 2012) 5 plate; 12 references                           Accepted: 25 Oct. 2011
Charinus bromeliaea sp. n. (Amblypygi: Charinidae); a new species of bromeliad inhabiting whip spider from French Guyana 
MERLIJN JOCQUE (Belgium) & ALESSANDRO PONCE DE LEÃO GIUPPONI (Brazil)

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2011

Editorial
Zootaxa 3148: 149–153 (23 Dec. 2011
Order Araneae Clerck, 1757. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

JASON A. DUNLOP AND DAVID PENNEY
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3135: 59–62 (19 Dec. 2011) 2 plates; 12 references                     Accepted: 26 Oct. 2011
A new troglomorphic Metagonia Simon 1893 (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Brazil
EWERTON. O. MACHADO, RODRIGO L. FERREIRA & ANTONIO. D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3132: 64–67 (15 Dec. 2011) 2 plates; 11 references                    Accepted: 09 Nov. 2011
First description of the female of Emblyna zherikhini (Marusik 1988) comb. n. (Araneae: Dictynidae)
MIKHAIL M. OMELKO (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3131: 1–34 (15 Dec. 2011) 26 plates; 39 references                     Accepted: 19 Oct. 2011
Studies on species of Holarctic Pardosa groups (Araneae, Lycosidae). VII. The Pardosa tesquorum group
TORBJÖRN KRONESTEDT (Sweden) & YURI M. MARUSIK(Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 3125: 64–68 (09 Dec. 2011) 3 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 28 Oct. 2011
New species of Sparianthina Banks, 1929 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
CRISTINA ANNE RHEIMS (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3115: 56–64 (01 Dec. 2011) 12 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 21 Oct. 2011
Three new synonyms of the spider Miagrammopes guttatus Mello-Leitão, 1937 (Araneae: Uloboridae)
LIDIANNE SALVATIERRA, ANA LÚCIA TOURINHO & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3114: 31–39 (30 Nov. 2011) 05 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
On some linyphiid spiders from Taiwan (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
ANDREI V. TANASEVITCH (Russia)
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Article
Zootaxa 3104: 52–58 (21 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                  Accepted: 11 Oct. 2011
The spider Micrathena shealsi Chickering, 1960 (Araneae, Araneidae): description of the male, with new data on its geographic distribution
CARINA I. ARGAÑARAZ & GONZALO D. RUBIO (Argentina)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3096: 64–68 (11 Nov. 2011) 3 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 27 Sep. 2011
On the male of the orb weaving spider Micrathena cyanospina (Lucas, 1835) (Araneidae, Araneae)
ANDRÉ A. NOGUEIRA & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 3080: 1–108 (28 Oct. 2011) 75 plates; 116 references                   Accepted: 04 Jul. 2011
Phylogenetics and comparative morphology of crab spiders (Araneae: Dionycha, Thomisidae)
SURESH P. BENJAMIN
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Article
Zootaxa 3066: 21–36 (24 Oct. 2011) 12 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 22 Sep. 2011
On four new canopy spiders of Dictynidae (Araneae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, China ZHI-SHENG ZHANG & SHUQIANG LI (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 3066: 1–20 (24 Oct. 2011) 9 plates; 17 references                         Accepted: 21 Sep. 2011
Neotype designation for Sphingius thecatus Thorell, 1890, synonymies, new records and descriptions of six new species from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Liocranidae)
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand), MARIA TAVANO (Italy) & TIPPAWAN SINGTRIPOP (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 3061: 36–52 (18 Oct. 2011) 10 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Six new Orchestina species from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Oonopidae) 
YANFENG TONG & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 3048: 53–61 (04 Oct. 2011) 5 plates; 15 references                         Accepted: 30 Aug. 2011
Notes on Burmese spiders formerly attributed to the genus Storena (Zodariidae, Araneae) PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand), MARIA TAVANO (Italy) & TIPPAWAN SINGTRIPO (Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 3046: 59–66 (30 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 27 references                         Accepted: 29 Aug. 2011
The spider genus Segestria Latreille, 1804 in South America (Araneae: Segestriidae) 
ANDRÉ MARSOLA GIROTI & ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3046: 1–38 (30 Sep. 2011) 26 plates; 59 references                         Accepted: 23 Aug. 2011
Revision of the spider genera Nilus O. Pickard-Cambridge 1876, Sphedanus Thorell 1877 and Dendrolycosa Doleschall 1859 (Araneae: Pisauridae) 
PETER JÄGER (Germany)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3041: 63–65 (24 Sep. 2011) 1 plates; 6 references                         Accepted: 22 Aug. 2011
Description of the female of Eilica pomposa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) with new records and notes on species distribution 
RICARDO OTT & EVERTON NEI LOPES RODRIGUES (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 3037: 51–61 (21 Sep. 2011) 5 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 25 Aug. 2011
The wolf spider species from Peru and Bolivia described by Embrik Strand in 1908 (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosinae, Sosippinae, Allocosinae) 
ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT & ÉDER S.S. ÁLVARES (Brazil)

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Erratum 
Zootaxa 3035: 68 (20 Sep. 2011
Erratum: ZHANG, B.S., ZHANG, F. & CHEN, P. (2011) Species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Hainan Island, China. Zootaxa, 2986, 55–62.

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Article
Zootaxa 3022: 22–38 (12 Sep. 2011) 11 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 01 Jul. 2011
Systematics of the genus Soesilarishius (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae) 
GUSTAVO RODRIGO SANCHES RUIZ (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 3018: 27–49 (08 Sep. 2011) 21 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 10 Aug. 2011
Three new species and new records in the wolf spider subfamily Sosippinae from Argentina (Araneae: Lycosidae) 
LUIS N. PIACENTINI (Argentina)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3011: 65–68 (05 Sep. 2011) 2 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 11 Aug. 2011
First description of the female of Lysiteles minimus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Liupan Mountains, Ningxia, China 
DONG-SHENG HU & FENG ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 3002: 59–61 (24 Aug. 2011) 1 plates; 5 references                         Accepted: 29 Jul. 2011
About types of arachnids (Araneae, Opiliones, Pseudoscorpiones) described by E. Schenkel from China in 1953 
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2993: 59–68 (11 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 14 references                     Accepted: 28 Jul. 2011
Description of a new Otacilia species from China, with transfer of two species from the genus Phrurolithus (Araneae: Corinnidae) 
DONG-SHENG HU & FENG ZHANG (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2989: 51–68 (09 Aug. 2011) 11 plates; 11 references                     Accepted: 8 Jul. 2011
Eleven new species of the genus Belisana Thorell (Araneae: Pholcidae) from South China
FENG ZHANG & YAN-QIU PENG (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2986: 55–62 (04 Aug. 2011) 4 plates; 21 references                     Accepted: 1 Jul. 2011
Species of the genus Mallinella Strand, 1906 (Araneae: Zodariidae) from Hainan Island, China BAO-SHI ZHANG, FENG ZHANG & PING CHEN (China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2983: 39–56 (03 Aug. 2011) 10 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 27 Jun. 2011
Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spi-ders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remarks on the development of Micrathena excavata IVAN L. F. MAGALHÃES & ADALBERTO J. SANTOS (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2973: 57–65 (22 Jul. 2011) 6 plates; 10 references                         Accepted: 23 Jun. 2011
Two new species of Antillorena Jocqué 1991 from northeastern Brazil (Araneae, Zodariidae)
ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT & GUSTAVO RODRIGO SANCHES RUIZ (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2971: 33–39 (20 Jul. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 21 Jun. 2011
On a second species of Envia Ott & Höfer, 2003 (Araneae, Microstigmatidae), with notes on the sympatric type species
LAURA TAVARES MIGLIO & ALEXANDRE BRAGIO BONALDO (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2963: 55–68 (11 Jul. 2011) 5 plates; 36 references                         Accepted: 22 Jun. 2011
A new trapdoor spider species from the southern Coast Ranges of California (Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae, Aliatypus coylei, sp. nov,), including consideration of mitochondrial phylogeographic structuring
MARSHAL HEDIN & DAVE CARLSON (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2939: 1–49 (05 Jul. 2011) 35 plates; 21 references                       Accepted: 12 May 2011
The oonopid spider genus Ischnothyreus in Borneo (Oonopidae, Araneae)
YVONNE KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER (Switzerland)
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Article
Zootaxa 2922: 51–59 (17 Jun. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                         Accepted: 18 May 2011
Four new troglophilous species of the genus Pholcus Walckenaer (Araneae, Pholcidae) from Guizhou Province, China
HUI-MING CHEN, FENG ZHANG & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2919: 60–68 (14 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 8 references                         Accepted: 11 May 2011
Seven new species of Enna (Araneae: Trechaleidae) from Central and South America
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA & ARNO A. LISE (Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2912: 1–27 (9 Jun. 2011) 25 plates; 20 references                         Accepted: 10 May 2011
Comb-tailed spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Hahniidae)
ZHI-SHENG ZHANG, SHUQIANG LI & GUO ZHENG (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2910: 63–68 (8 Jun. 2011) 3 plates; 18 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
A new record of Zatypota albicoxa (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Indonesia, with description of a new species of its host spider (Araneae: Theridiidae)
KEIZO TAKASUKA (Japan), HAJIME YOSHIDA (Japan), PUTRA NUGROHO (Indonesia) & RIKIO MATSUMOTO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 2910: 46–62 (8 Jun. 2011) 8 plates; 31 references                         Accepted: 3 May 2011
A review on the huntsman spider genus Spariolenus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Iran with description of four new species
MAJID MORADMAND & PETER JÄGER (Germany)
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Article
Zootaxa 2905: 16–32 (3 Jun. 2011) 9 plates; 12 references                       Accepted: 12 May 2011
Seven new species of Systaria Simon, 1897 from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Clubionidae, Systariinae)
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL & TIPPAWAN SINGTRIPOP (Thailand)

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Article
Zootaxa 2902: 44–58 (1 Jun. 2011) 12 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
Three new species of Telemidae (Araneae) from Western Africa
CHUNXIA WANG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2883: 65–68 (19 May 2011) 2 plates; 11 references                       Accepted: 22 Apr. 2011
Selenops muehlmannorum spec. nov. from Southern Laos (Araneae: Selenopidae)
PETER JÄGER (Germany) & BOUNTHOB PRAXAYSOMBATH (Laos)

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Monograph
Zootaxa 2841: 1–90 (29 Apr. 2011) 72 plates; 19 references                      Accepted: 25 Jan. 2011
A further study on the species of the spider genus Leptonetela (Araneae: Leptonetidae) 

CHUNXIA WANG & SHUQIANG LI (China)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2839: 85–88 (29 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 6 references                     Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
A new species of the genus Anahita Karsch, 1879 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Hainan Island, China
FENG ZHANG, DONG-SHENG HU & GUANG-XIN HAN (P.R. China)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2833: 65–68 (27 Apr. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 22 Mar. 2011
First description of the male of Sason sechellanum Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Barychelidae)
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & JUSTIN GERLACH (UK)

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Article
Zootaxa 2833: 49–59 (27 Apr. 2011) 5 plates; 20 references                       Accepted: 24 Mar. 2011
The cobweb spiders of the genus Anelosimus Simon, 1891 (Araneae: Theridiidae) in Hainan Island, China
BAO-SHI ZHANG, LONG LIU & FENG ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2828: 1–18 (21 Apr. 2011) 10 plates; 35 references                      Accepted: 15 Mar. 2011
The species of Grammostola (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Central Argentina: taxonomy, distribution, and surface ultrastructure of coxal setae
N. FERRETTI (Argentina), G. POMPOZZI (Argentina) & F. PÉREZ-MILES (Uruguay)
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Article
Zootaxa 2823: 1–31 (18 Apr. 2011) 21 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 21 Feb. 2011
New Trilacuna species from Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra (Araneae, Oonopidae)
BEATA EICHENBERGER & YVONNE KRANZ-BALTENSPERGER (Switzerland)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2819: 65–67 (14 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 3 references                       Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
First description of the male of Notiocoelotes pseudolingulatus
(Araneae: Agelenidae) from Hainan Island, China
GUANG-XIN HAN, FENG ZHANG & ZHI-SHENG ZHANG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 2815: 28–48 (12 Apr. 2011) 8 plates; 25 references                         Accepted: 5 Nov. 2010
A taxonomic revision of the genus Phyxioschema (Araneae, Dipluridae), II: species from Central Asia
PETER J. SCHWENDINGER (Switzerland) & SERGEI L. ZONSTEIN (Israel)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2814: 67–68 (11 Apr. 2011) 1 plates; 3 references                         Accepted: 16 Mar. 2011
A new species of Dossenus Simon, 1898 (Araneae, Trechaleidae) from Northern Brazil
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA & ARNO A. LISE (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2814: 19–32 (11 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 26 references                       Accepted: 11 Mar. 2011
Update to the zodariid spider fauna of the Iberian Peninsula and Madeira
(Araneae: Zodariidae)
STANO PEKÁR (Czech Republic), PEDRO CARDOSO (USA), JAVIER C. BARRIGA (Spain) & JOSÉ C.
CARVALHO (Portugal)
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Zootaxa 2814: 1–18 (11 Apr. 2011) 6 plates; 42 references                         Accepted: 17 Mar. 2011
Revalidation of Pterinopelma Pocock 1901 with description of a new species and the female of Pterinopelma vitiosum (Keyserling 1891) (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Theraphosinae)
ROGÉRIO BERTANI, ROBERTO HIROAKI NAGAHAMA & CAROLINE SAYURI FUKUSHIMA (Brazil)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2813: 65–68 (8 Apr. 2011) 3 plates; 2 references                           Accepted: 14 Mar. 2011
First description of the female of Acantholycosa logunovi (Araneae: Lycosidae)
ALEXANDER A. FOMICHEV & YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2798: 61–63 (23 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 12 Jan. 2011
A second species of the orb-weaving spider genus Melychiopharis from South America (Araneae: Araneidae)
ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT, ADALBERTO J. SANTOS & CLARISSA MACHADO P. LEITE (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2793: 47–55 (17 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 13 references                     Accepted: 14 Feb. 2011
Description of a new orb-weaving spider species representing the first record of Novaranea in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae)
VOLKER W. FRAMENAU (Australia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2788: 57–68 (11 Mar. 2011) 7 plates; 11 references                         Accepted: 2 Feb. 2011
A new genus of hahniid spiders from Far East Asia (Araneae: Hahniidae)
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2785: 53–60 (8 Mar. 2011) 6 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 20 Jan. 2010
Description of Macutula, a new genus of jumping spiders
from Northeastern Brazil (Araneae: Salticidae: Amycoida)
GUSTAVO RODRIGO SANCHES RUIZ (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2782: 34–38 (3 Mar. 2011) 4 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 24 Jan. 2011
A new spider species Harpactea complicata Deltshev sp. nov. from caves of
Serbia (Araneae: Dysderidae)
CHRISTO DELTSHEV (Bulgaria) & BOŽIDAR P. M.
ĆURČIĆ (Yugoslavia)
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Zootaxa 2781: 63–68 (2 Mar. 2011) 2 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 20 Jan. 2011
The Neotropical spider genus Paradossenus (Araneae, Trechaleidae): a new species, taxonomic notes and new records
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA (Brazil) & ARNO A. LISE (USA)

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Zootaxa 2772: 33–51 (23 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 41 references                          Accepted: 7 Jan. 2011
The spider genus Chrysometa (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from the Pico da Neblina and Serra do Tapirapecó mountains (Amazonas, Brazil): new species, new records, diversity and distribution along two altitudinal gradients
ANDRÉ A. NOGUEIRA, JOÃO P.P. PENA-BARBOSA, EDUARDO M. VENTICINQUE & ANTONIO D.
BRESCOVIT (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 2761: 51–63 (9 Feb. 2011) 7 plates; 40 references                             Accepted: 7 Jan. 2011
Phylogenetic placement and redescription of the spider genus Atelidea Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
FERNANDO ÁLVAREZ-PADILLA (Mexico) & SURESH P. BENJAMIN (Sri Lanka)

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Article
Zootaxa 2759: 60–68 (7 Feb. 2011) 4 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 7 Jan. 2010
Araneid orb-weavers (Araneae, Araneidae) associated with riparian forests in
southern Brazil: a new species, complementary descriptions and new records
EVERTON NEI LOPES RODRIGUES & MILTON DE S. MENDONÇA, JR. (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2742: 60–66 (17 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 33 references                          Accepted: 15 Dec. 2010
A new species of anapid spider (Araneae: Araneoidea, Anapidae) in Eocene
Baltic amber, imaged using phase contrast X-ray computed micro-tomography
DAVID PENNEY (UK), ANDREW MCNEIL (UK), DAVID I. GREEN (UK), ROBERT BRADLEY (UK),
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia), PHILIP J. WITHERS (UK) & RICHARD F. PREZIOSI (UK)
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Article
Zootaxa 2739: 41–50 (13 Jan. 2011) 2 plates; 35 references                            Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Reuniting males and females: redescriptions of Nuisiana arboris (Marples 1959) and Cambridgea reinga Forster & Wilton 1973 (Araneae: Desidae, Stiphidiidae)
COR J. VINK (New Zealand), BRIAN M. FITZGERALD (New Zealand), PHIL J. SIRVID (New Zealand) &
NADINE DUPÉRRÉ (USA)
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Article
Zootaxa 2739: 27–32 (13 Jan. 2011) 4 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 14 Dec. 2010
A new species of Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Amaurobioidea, Coelotinae) from Northern Pakistan
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & FRANCESCO BALLARIN (Italy)

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Article
Zootaxa 2730: 57–68 (24 Dec. 2010) 9 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Two new species of the spider genus Cataleptoneta from Balkan Peninsula (Araneae, Leptonetidae)
CHUNXIA WANG & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2730: 23–43 (24 Dec. 2010) 15 plates; 19 references                         Accepted: 3 Dec. 2010
Clubionidae from Laos and Thailand (Arachnida: Araneae)
PETER JÄGER (Germany) & PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand)

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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2723: 66–68 (15 Dec. 2010) 0 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 1 Dec. 2010
Synonyms and one new record in the spider family Trechaleidae
(Araneae: Lycosoidea)
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA (Brazil) & ARNO A. LISE (USA)

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Zootaxa 2719: 1–20 (10 Dec. 2010) 16 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 22 Nov. 2010
Four new species of the spider genus Telema (Araneae, Telemidae) from Southeast Asia
CHUNXIA WANG & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2703: 1–105 (3 Dec. 2010) 76 plates; 55 references                        Accepted: 17 Nov. 2010
Crab spiders from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)
GUO TANG
& SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)
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Article
Zootaxa 2690: 1–18 (29 Nov. 2010) 9 plates; 42 references                             Accepted: 8 Nov. 2010
New data on the spider genus Troglohyphantes (Araneae, Linyphiidae) in the Italian Alps, with the description of a new species and a new synonymy
MARCO ISAIA & PAOLO PANTINI (Italy)

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Article
Zootaxa 2667: 43–50 (4 Nov. 2010) 5 plates; 3 references                                Accepted: 14 Oct. 2010
Taxonomic notes on the genus Paratrechalea Carico, 2005
(Araneae: Trechaleidae: Trechaleinae)
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA (USA) & ARNO A. LISE (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2650: 33–46 (19 Oct. 2010) 9 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 17 Sep. 2010
A new genus of huntsman spiders from the Neotropical region (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
CRISTINA ANNE RHEIMS (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2642: 59–67 (12 Oct. 2010) 3 plates; 19 references                           Accepted: 21 Sep. 2010
A review of the Asian orb weaving spider genus Pronoides (Araneae: Araneidae)
XIAO-XIAO ZHANG, FENG ZHANG & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2637: 31–54 (6 Oct. 2010) 13 plates; 44 references                              Accepted: 1 Sep. 2010
Draposa, a new wolf spider genus from South and Southeast Asia (Araneae: Lycosidae)
TORBJÖRN KRONESTEDT (Sweden)

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Article
Zootaxa 2636: 2 1–36 (5 Oct. 2010) 10 plates; 10 references                           Accepted: 12 Aug. 2010
Five new Mallinella species from the Sundaland of Indonesia (Araneae, Zodariidae)
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand), RUDY JOCQUÉ (Belgium) & TIPPAWAN SINGTRIPOP
(Thailand)
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Article
Zootaxa 2632: 1–45 (1 Oct. 2010) 38 plates; 11 references                                Accepted: 6 Sep. 2010
New species of the spider genus Telema (Araneae, Telemidae) from caves in Guangxi, China
CHUNXIA WANG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2630: 57–68 (29 Sep. 2010) 7 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 10 Sep. 2010
Proposal of Kupiuka and Plesiopiuka, two new genera of jumping spiders from
Brazil (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae)
GUSTAVO RODRIGO SANCHES RUIZ (Brazil)

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Article
Zootaxa 2630: 30–56 (29 Sep. 2010) 21 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 1 Sep. 2010
Revision of the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen (Araneae: Titanoecidae): description of five new species and first record of Titanoecidae from Africa
LINA M. ALMEIDA-SILVA (Brazil), CHARLES E. GRISWOLD (USA) & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT
(Brazil)
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Article
Zootaxa 2630: 1–29 (29 Sep. 2010) 21 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 28 Aug. 2010
Caayguara, a new genus of huntsman spiders from the Brazilian Atlantic Forest
(Araneae: Sparassidae)
CRISTINA A. RHEIMS (Brazil)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2626: 65–68 (27 Sep. 2010) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2010
A new species of Parasyrisca Schenkel, 1963 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) from the Altai
YURI M. MARUSIK & ALEXANDER A. FOMICHEV (Russia)

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Article
Zootaxa 2626: 46–60 (27 Sep. 2010) 1 plates; 44 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2010
New records of araneid spiders (Araneae: Araneidae)
in the Colombian Amazon Region
JAIME PINZON (Canada), LIGIA BENAVIDES (USA) & ALEXANDER SABOGAL (Colombia)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2617: 66–68 (20 Sep. 2010) 1 plates; 2 references                            Accepted: 28 Aug. 2010
A new species of the genus Xantharia from China (Araneae: Clubionidae)

FENG ZHANG, CHAO ZHANG & JIANYING FU (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2613: 40–50 (15 Sep. 2010) 8 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 17 Aug. 2010
A new species of Hersilia Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Hersiliidae) from India, with notes on its natural history
S. M. MAQSOOD JAVED (India), STEFAN H. FOORD (South Africa) & FARIDA TAMPAL (India)

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Article
Zootaxa 2612: 41–56 (15 Sep. 2010) 5 plates; 48 references                          Accepted: 18 Aug. 2010
Studies in Corinnidae (Araneae): a new Paratrachelas Kovblyuk & Nadolny from Algeria, as well as the description of a new genus of Old World Trachelinae
JAN BOSSELAERS & ROBERT BOSMANS (Belgium)

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Article
Zootaxa 2604: 61–68 (7 Sep. 2010) 6 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 14 Aug. 2010
Description of a new species of Pikelinia (Araneae: Filistatidae) from Brazil, with notes on its ecology
ARNO A. LISE, ANA CARLA K. FERREIRA & ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA (Brazil)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2594: 1–79 (31 Aug. 2010) 61 plates; 24 references                            Accepted: 21 Jul. 2010
Pholcid spiders of the genus Khorata Huber, 2005 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Guangxi, China

ZHIYUAN YAO & SHUQIANG LI
(P.R. China)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2593: 1–127 (31 Aug. 2010) 128 plates; 39 references                        Accepted: 5 Jun. 2010
Revision of the genus Draconarius Ovtchinnikov 1999 (Agelenidae: Coelotinae) in Yunnan, China, with an analysis of
the Coelotinae diversity in the Gaoligongshan Mountains
XIN-PING WANG (P.R. China), CHARLES E.GRISWOLD (USA) & JEREMY A. MILLER (The Netherlands)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2588: 1–91 (31 Aug. 2010) 1 plates; 275 references                            Accepted: 4 May 2010
Annotated check list of Arachnida type specimens deposited in
the Museu Nacional, Rio de Janeiro. II—Araneae
THIAGO DA SILVA MOREIRA, RENNER L. C. BAPTISTA, ADRIANO B. KURY,
ALESSANDRO P. L. GIUPPONI, ERICA H. BUCKUP & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2587: 1–93 (31 Aug. 2010) 61 plates; 42 references                            Accepted: 4 May 2010
Leptonetid spiders from caves of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau,
China (Araneae: Leptonetidae)
YUCHENG LIN & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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Article
Zootaxa 2578: 62–68 (27 Aug. 2010) 2 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 14 Jul. 2010
Two new species of Cydrela (Araneae, Zodariidae) extending the distribution of the genus into Central Africa
B. NZIGIDAHERA (Burundi) & R. JOCQUÉ (Belgium)

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Article
Zootaxa 2564: 43–61 (11 Aug. 2010) 10 plates; 22 references                         Accepted: 21 Jul. 2010
New data on the least known zelotines (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) of Greece and
adjacent regions
MARIA CHATZAKI (Greece)

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Zootaxa 2561: 30–48 (9 Aug. 2010) 16 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 15 Jul. 2010
The Notiocoelotes spiders (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Hainan Island, China
JIE LIU & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2551: 65–68 (28 Jul. 2010) 2 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 9 Jul. 2010
Papakula and Hesydrimorpha: how two spider genera were described from the same species collected from the same locality (Araneae: Pisauridae)
PETER JÄGER (Germany)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2534 1–36 (13 Jul. 2010) 21 plates; 49 references                            Accepted: 27 May 2010
Taxonomic revision of the spider family Penestomidae (Araneae, Entelegynae)
JEREMY A. MILLER (The Netherlands), CHARLES E. GRISWOLD (USA) & CHARLES R. HADDAD
(S. Africa)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2526 37–53 (5 Jul. 2010) 10 plates; 31 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2010
A new genus and five new species of Astieae (Araneae: Salticidae)
from Australia, with remarks on distribution
JOANNA GARDZI
ŃSKA & MAREK ŻABKA (Poland)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2508: 56–64 (16 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 15 references                              Accepted: 3 May 2010
Huntsman spiders (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, China
JIE LIU (P.R. China), SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China) & PETER JÄGER (Germany)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2501: 1–22 (10 Jun. 2010) 17 plates; 27 references                            Accepted: 27 Apr. 2010
A revision of the genus Nomisia in Greece and neighboring regions with the description of two new species
M. CHATZAKI (Greece)
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Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2495: 65–68 (4 Jun. 2010) 1 plates; 2 references                                  Accepted: 8 May 2010
A new species of Philodromus (Artanes) from Macedonia, Greece
(Araneae: Philodromidae)
CHRISTOPH MUSTER (Germany) & JOHAN VAN KEER (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 2495: 1–52 (4 Jun. 2010) 4 plates; 50 references                                 Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
The Iberian spider checklist (Araneae)
PEDRO CARDOSO (USA) & EDUARDO MORANO (Spain)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2491: 34–40 (2 Jun. 2010) 5 plates; 5 references                               Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
Two new species of the rare orb weaving spider genus Deione (Araneae: Araneidae) from China
XIAO-QI MI, XIAN-JIN PENG & CHANG-MIN YIN (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2488: 39–51 (31 May 2010) 9 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
The orb-weaving spider genus Eriovixia (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Gaoligong Mountains, China
XIAO-QI MI, XIAN-JIN PENG & CHANG-MIN YIN (China)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2483: 65–68 (25 May 2010) 2 plates; 5 references                          Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
A new species of the spider genus Neriene from Southwestern China (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
JIE LIU & JIAN CHEN (P.R. China)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2473: 1–67 (14 May 2010) 11 plates; 90 references                          Accepted: 31 Dec. 2009
A review of the linyphiid spiders of Portugal, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
ROBERT BOSMANS (Belgium), PEDRO CARDOSO (Denmark) & LUIS CARLOS CRESPO (Portugal)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2461: 1–170 (14 May 2010) 1 plates; 977 references                         Accepted: 18 Mar. 2010
Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska 
PIERRE PAQUIN (USA), DONALD J.
BUCKLE (Canada), NADINE DUPÉRRÉ (USA) & CHARLES D. DONDALE (Canada)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2452: 59–66 (12 May 2010) 5 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 21 Apr. 2010
The spider genus Cnodalia (Araneae: Araneidae) in China
XIAO-QI MI, XIAN-JIN PENG & CHANG-MIN YIN (P.R. China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2445: 1–34 (5 May 2010) 20 plates; 15 references                               Accepted: 4 Apr. 2010
Long-legged cave spiders (Araneae, Telemidae) from Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau,
southwestern China
YUCHENG LIN & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)
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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2443: 1–64 (3 May 2010) 43 plates; 23 references                            Accepted: 22 Mar. 2010
A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Coremiocnemis Simon 1892 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with further notes on the Selenocosmiinae
RICK C. WEST (Canada) & STEVEN C. NUNN (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2442: 1–24 (3 May 2010) 21 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 30 Mar. 2010
New Coelotine spiders from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, Southwestern China (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)
JIE LIU & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2440: 18–32 (29 Apr. 2010) 9 plates; 30 references                           Accepted: 23 Mar. 2010
New armored spiders of the family Tetrablemmidae from China
YUCHENG LIN & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2427: 25–35 (15 Apr. 2010) 4 plates; 62 references                         Accepted: 3 Mar. 2010
High-resolution X-ray computed tomography of an extant new Donuea (Araneae: Liocranidae) species in Madagascan copal
JAN BOSSELAERS, MANUEL DIERICK, VEERLE CNUDDE, BERT MASSCHAELE, LUC VAN HOOREBEKE
& PATRIC JACOBS (Belgium)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2418: 1–49 (6 Apr. 2010) 22 plates; 43 references                           Accepted: 1 Mar. 2010
A Review of the Jumping Spider Fauna (Araneae: Salticidae) of Chile

BARRY J. RICHARDSON (Australia)
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Correspondence
Zootaxa 2418: 65–68 (6 Apr. 2010) 2 plates; 2 references                          Accepted: 6 Mar. 2010
A new species of the genus Paratus Simon (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Thailand
LORENA V. ZAPATA & MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2414: 27–40 (30 Mar. 2010) 10 plates; 29 references                         Accepted: 22 Feb. 2010
The first pararchaeid spider (Araneae: Pararchaeidae) from New Caledonia, with a discussion on spinneret spigots and egg sac morphology in Ozarchaea

MICHAEL G. RIX & MARK S. HARVEY (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2405: 55–62 (22 Mar. 2010) 3 plates; 34 references                          Accepted: 22 Feb. 2010
Description of the male of the spider Dubiaranea difficilis (Araneae: Linyphiidae), with new records and modeling of its potential geographic distribution
GONZALO D. RUBIO (Argentina), EVERTON N. L. RODRIGUES (Brazil) & LUIS E. ACOSTA
(Argentina)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2399: 42–50 (15 Mar. 2010) 5 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
A new Platocoelotes species and first description of the male of Platocoelotes icohamatoides from Hunan, China (Araneae: Amaurobiidae: Coelotinae)
HAIQIANG YIN, XIANG XU & HENGMEI YAN (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2396: 19–36 (11 Mar. 2010) 12 plates; 58 references                         Accepted: 29 Jan. 2010
Mr. Darwin’s mysterious spider: on the type species of the genus Leucauge
White, 1841 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae)
DIMITAR DIMITROV & GUSTAVO HORMIGA (USA)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2391: 1–32 (8 Mar. 2010) 20 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 1 Jan. 2010
A study of the subfamily Archoleptonetinae (Araneae, Leptonetidae) with a
review of the morphology and relationships for the Leptonetidae
JOEL M. LEDFORD & CHARLES E. GRISWOLD (USA)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2377: 1–93 (26 Feb. 2010) 87 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 15  Feb.  2010
The coelotine spiders from three national parks in Northern Vietnam (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)
JIE LIU (China), SHUQIANG LI (China), & DINH-SAC PHAM (Vietnam)

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Monograph 
Zootaxa 2369: 1–68 (24 Feb. 2010) 52 plates; 46 references                           Accepted: 6 Feb. 2010
Crab spiders from Hainan Island, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)
GUO TANG & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2362: 44–54 (18 Feb. 2010) 7 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
Revision of the genus Berinda (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in the East Mediterranean with the description of two new species
ELENI PANAYIOTOU (Greece), DIMITRIS KALTSAS (Greece), OSMAN SEYYAR (Turkey) & MARIA CHATZAKI (Greece)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2362: 1–43 (18 Feb. 2010) 24 plates; 44 references                            Accepted: 14 Dec. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the tarantula spider genus Lyrognathus Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Theraphosidae), with notes on the Selenocosmiinae
RICK C. WEST (Canada) & STEVEN C. NUNN (Australia)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2361: 1–12 (17 Feb. 2010) 5 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
A revision of the genus Medmassa Simon, 1887 (Araneae: Corinnidae) in the Afrotropical Region
CHARLES R. HADDAD (South Africa) & JAN BOSSELAERS (Belgium)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2355: 35–55 (10 Feb. 2010) 14 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 11 Jan. 2010
Eight new spider species of the genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) from China 
YANFENG TONG & SHUQIANG LI (China)
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Article 
Zootaxa 2336: 61–66 (15 Jan. 2010) 2 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 21 Nov. 2009
Two new species of the orb-weaving spider genus Alpaida from Brazil (Araneae: Araneidae)
KARINA P. SANTOS & ADALBERTO J. SANTOS (Brazil)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2334: 47–58 (13 Jan. 2010) 20 plates; 11 references                          Accepted: 8 Dec. 2009
Two new species of spiders of the genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae: Selenopidae) and redescription of Selenops scitus Muma, 1953 from Mexico
ALEJANDRO VALDEZ-MONDRAGÓN (Mexico)

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Article 
Zootaxa 2327: 23–43 (4 Jan. 2010) 14 plates; 15 references                           Accepted: 18 Nov. 2009
The Goblin Spiders of the Genus Opopaea (Araneae, Oonopidae) in Hainan Island, China
YANFENG TONG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2313: 1-34 (17 Dec. 2009) 35 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 23 Nov. 2009
On the pseudoterrestris species group of the spider genus Coelotes
(Araneae, Amaurobiidae)
XIN-PING WANG (P.R. China), CHARLES E. GRISWOLD (USA) & DARRELL UBICK (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2309: 1-29 (11 Dec. 2009) 10 plates; 65 references                          Accepted: 27 Oct. 2009
A first look at the phylogeny of the Myrmarachninae, with rediscovery and
redescription of the type species of Myrmarachne (Araneae: Salticidae)
G. B. EDWARDS & SURESH P. BENJAMIN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2307: 39-60 (9 Dec. 2009) 7 plates; 61 references                          Accepted: 10 Nov. 2009
Phylogeography of the Habronattus amicus species complex (Araneae:
Salticidae) of western North America, with evidence for localized asymmetrical mitochondrial introgression
MARSHAL HEDIN & MICHAEL C. LOWDER (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2305: 51-60 (7 Dec. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                          Accepted: 13 Nov. 2009
First report of the sac spider genus Systaria Simon (Araneae: Clubionidae) from
China: Systaria hainanensis sp. nov. and Systaria mengla (Song & Zhu, 1994) comb. nov.
FENG ZHANG, JIANYING FU & MINGSHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 55-63 (26 Nov. 2009) 5 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 5 Nov. 2009
Three new pimoid spiders from Sichuan Province, China (Araneae: Pimoidae)
XIANG XU & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2298: 31-44 (26 Nov. 2009) 6 plates; 15 references                          Accepted: 30 Oct. 2009
Spiders of the genus Sphingius (Araneae: Liocranidae) from China,
with description of two new species
FENG ZHANG, JIAN-YING FU & MING-SHENG ZHU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2297: 55-63 (25 Nov. 2009) 7 plates; 6 references                          Accepted: 6 Nov. 2009
On two rare South-East Asian araneid genera: Deione and Talthybia
(Araneae: Araneidae)
GUANG–XIN HAN (China), MING–SHENG ZHU (China), HERBERT W. LEVI (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2297: 1-14 (25 Nov. 2009) 8 plates; 24 references                          Accepted: 11 Sep. 2009
The Southeast Asian genus Stedocys Ono, 1995 (Araneae: Scytodidae):
first descriptions of female genitalia and a new species from China
FACUNDO M. LABARQUE (Argentina), CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO (Argentina), MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ
(Argentina), HENGMEI YAN (China) & CHARLES E. GRISWOLD (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2296: 1-38 (24 Nov. 2009) 12 plates; 46 references                          Accepted: 22 Oct. 2009
A revision of the endemic South African spider genus Austrachelas, with its
transfer to the Gallieniellidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
CHARLES R. HADDAD (South Africa), ROBIN LYLE (South Africa), JAN BOSSELAERS (Belgium) &
MARTIN J. RAMIREZ (Argentina)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2291: 65-68 (17 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 9 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Redescription of Minosiella intermedia Denis, 1958 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)
with first description of the male
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & MYKOLA M. KOVBLYUK (Ukraine)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2289: 48-54 (13 Nov. 2009) 2 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 24 Oct. 2009
Four new species of the Neotropical spider genus Enna
(Araneae, Lycosoidea, Trechaleidae) from Brazil
ESTEVAM L. CRUZ DA SILVA & ARNO A. LISE (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2283: 60-68 (6 Nov. 2009) 3 plates; 16 references                          Accepted: 6 Oct. 2009
A new species of the genus Sason (Araneae: Barychelidae) from Rameshwaram Island, Tamil Nadu, India
MANJU SILIWAL & SANJAY MOLUR (India)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2270: 1-38 (22 Oct. 2009) 18 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
Systematics and natural history of Barronopsis (Araneae: Agelenidae), with
description of a new species
IAN CHRISTOPHER STOCKS (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2267: 65-68 (19 Oct. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
First description of the female of the spider Savignia zero Eskov, 1988
(Araneae: Linyphiidae)
LIANA LASUT (Switzerland), YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & HOLGER FRICK (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2266: 61-68 (16 Oct. 2009) 5 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 16 Sep. 2009
On the poorly known genus Anuvinda Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae: Titanoecidae)

LINA M. ALMEIDA-SILVA (Brazil), ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil) & CHARLES E. GRISWOLD
(USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2247: 51-67 (6 Oct. 2009) 0 plates; 76 references                          Accepted: 10 Sep. 2009
Catalogue of type specimens of invertebrates in the collection of the Instituto
Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Manaus, Brazil. V. Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones and Scorpiones
REGIANE SATURNINO, ANA LÚCIA TOURINHO, CLARISSA SALETTE DE AZEVEDO, RENNER
L. C. BAPTISTA & CÉLIO MAGALHÃES (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2246: 45-57 (5 Oct. 2009) 7 plates; 31 references                          Accepted: 4 Sep. 2009
First record of the spider family Symphytognathidae in Europe and description of Anapistula ataecina sp. n. (Araneae)

PEDRO CARDOSO (Portugal) & NIKOLAJ SCHARFF (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2235: 40-58 (18 Sep. 2009) 8 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2009
A review of the genus Trachelas (Araneae: Corinnidae) from China
FENG ZHANG, JIAN-YING FU & MING-SHENG ZHU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2233: 39-56 (16 Sep. 2009) 6 plates; 35 references                          Accepted: 21 Aug. 2009
A new species of Ceraticelus Simon from southern California and a
redescription of Ceraticelus phylax Ivie & Barrows, its probable sister species (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
THOMAS R. PRENTICE & RICHARD A. REDAK (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2226: 66-68 (10 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 3 references                          Accepted: 31 Jul. 2009
On Central Asian Castianeira arnoldii Charitonov, 1946 (Araneae, Corinnidae),
earlier known from juvenile specimens
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2223: 48-68 (8 Sep. 2009) 16 plates; 18 references                          Accepted: 30 Jul. 2009
The crab spiders of the Genus Tmarus from Xishuangbanna, Yunnan,
China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
GUO TANG & SHU-QIANG LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2223: 25-47 (8 Sep. 2009) 16 plates; 30 references                          Accepted: 14 Aug. 2009
Description of two new species of Avicularia Lamarck 1818 and redescription of
Avicularia diversipes (C.L. Koch 1842) (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Aviculariinae)—three possibly threatened Brazilian species
ROGÉRIO BERTANI & CAROLINE SAYURI FUKUSHIMA (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2217: 37-42 (2 Sep. 2009) 2 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
A review of the mygalomorph spiders of the Raveniola caudata species-group
(Araneae, Nemesiidae)
SERGEI ZONSTEIN (Israel)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2212: 62-68 (28 Aug. 2009) 3 plates; 8 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
Three new species of the ant spider genus Mallinella Strand, 1906
(Araneae: Zodariidae) from China
BAO-SHI ZHANG & MING-SHENG ZHU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2212: 1-40 (28 Aug. 2009) 25 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 3 Aug. 2009
A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider genus Coptoprepes Simon
(Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae)
VICTORIA WERENKRAUT & MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2203: 59-64 (19 Aug. 2009) 2 plates; 7 references                           Accepted: 5 Aug. 2009
A new species of the ant spider genus Suffasia (Araneae: Zodariidae) from the
Western Ghats, India with a key to the species of the genus
AMBALAPARAMBIL V. SUDHIKUMAR (Belgium), RUDY JOCQUÉ (Belgium) & POTHALIL A. SEBASTIAN (India)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2195: 1-33 (12 Aug. 2009) 20 plates; 82 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
Lobizon and Navira, two new genera of wolf spiders from Argentina
(Araneae: Lycosidae)
LUIS N. PIACENTINI & CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2171: 1-28 (30 Jul. 2009) 8 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 27 Jun. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the genus Drassodex Murphy, 2007
(Araneae: Gnaphosidae)
CHRISTOPHE HERVÉ (France), MICHAEL J. ROBERTS (UK) & JOHN A. MURPHY (UK)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2164: 61-68 (21 Jul. 2009) 3 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 26 Jun. 2009
Review of the genus Hongkongia (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China
FENG ZHANG, MING-SHENG ZHU & I-MIN TSO (China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2158: 65-68 (15 Jul. 2009) 2 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 24 Jun. 2009
The first Myrmecotypus O. P.-Cambridge (Araneae: Corinnidae) from
Argentina: description of Myrmecotypus iguazu new species
GONZALO D. RUBIO & MANUEL O. ARBINO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2154: 47-68 (10 Jul. 2009) 18 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 30 May 2009
First described Patu spiders (Araneae, Symphytognathidae) from Asia
YUCHENG LIN & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2144: 65-68 (29 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 8 Jun. 2009
A new spider family record for Hispaniola—a new species of Plectreurys (Araneae: Plectreuridae) in Miocene Dominican amber
DAVID PENNEY (UK)

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Zootaxa 2144: 1-53 (29 Jun. 2009) 35 plates; 28 references                            Accepted: 6 May 2009
A review of the cellar spider genus Psilochorus Simon 1893 in America north of Mexico (Araneae: Pholcidae)
JOZEF SLOWIK (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 2143: 55-58 (29 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 28 May 2009
Description of a new species of armored spider from Myanmar (Araneae: Tetrablemmidae)
FACUNDO M. LABARQUE & CRISTIAN J. GRISMADO (Argentina)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2143: 1-23 (29 Jun. 2009) 13 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 10 Jun. 2009
Heteropoda species from limestone caves in Laos (Araneae: Sparassidae:
Heteropodinae)
STEFFEN BAYER & PETER JÄGER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2141: 37-55 (25 Jun. 2009) 9 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2009
Studies in Liocranidae (Araneae): redescriptions and transfers in Apostenus Westring and Brachyanillus Simon, as well as description of a new genus
JAN BOSSELAERS (Belgium)

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Zootaxa 2140: 33-37 (24 Jun. 2009) 3 plates; 10 references                            Accepted: 6 May 2009
Harpactea konradi, a new spider species from Bulgaria, (Araneae, Dysderidae)
STOYAN LAZAROV (Bulgaria)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2133: 55-63 (16 Jun. 2009) 1 plates; 59 references                            Accepted: 25 May 2009
The cosmopolitan spider Cryptachaea blattea (Urquhart 1886) (Araneae:
Theridiidae): Redescription, including COI sequence, and new synonymy
COR J. VINK (New Zealand), NADINE DUPÉRRÉ (USA), PIERRE PAQUIN (USA), BRIAN M.
FITZGERALD (New Zealand) & PHIL J. SIRVID (New Zealand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2126: 1-40 (5 Jun. 2009) 22 plates; 16 references                            Accepted: 23 Apr. 2009
A taxonomic revision of the genus Phyxioschema (Araneae, Dipluridae), I: species from Thailand
PETER J. SCHWENDINGER (Switzerland)

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 Erratum 
Zootaxa 2116: 68 (25 May 2009
Erratum—JIE LIU, SHUQIANG LI & PETER JÄGER (2008) Zootaxa, 1857, 1–20.
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 Article 
Zootaxa 2116: 1-45 (25 May 2009) 15 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
New additions to the Brazilian fauna of the genus Scytodes Latreille (Araneae:
Scytodidae) with emphasis on the Atlantic Forest species
CRISTINA A. RHEIMS & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2115: 1-20 (22 May 2009) 16 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 4 May 2009
Revision of the new wandering spider genus Ohvida and taxonomic remarks on
Celaetycheus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Ctenidae)
DANIELE POLOTOW & ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2109: 45-58 (18 May 2009) 9 plates; 20 references                          Accepted: 27 Apr. 2009
Three new crab spiders from Xishuangbanna Rainforest, southwestern China
(Araneae: Thomisidae)
GUO TANG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2092: 58-68 (6 May 2009) 8 plates; 14 references                          Accepted: 2 Apr. 2009
Four new troglophilous species of the genus Belisana Thorell, 1898
(Araneae, Pholcidae) from Guizhou Province, China
HUI-MING CHEN, FENG-ZHANG & MING-SHENG ZHU (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2073: 22-30 (16 Apr. 2009) 5 plates; 22 references                           Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving
spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia
VOLKER W. FRAMENAU (Australia), NIKOLAJ SCHARFF (Denmark) & HERBERT W. LEVI (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2068: 47-58 (10 Apr. 2009) 4 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 7 Mar. 2009
Two new Tegenaria species (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Portugal
ANGELO BOLZERN (Switzerland), LUÍS CRESPO (Portugal) & PEDRO CARDOSO (Portugal)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2066: 1-49 (8 Apr. 2009) 44 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the
Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel
GERSHOM LEVY (Israel)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2060: 22-32 (1 Apr. 2009) 6 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 28 Feb. 2009
Three new species and one newly recorded species of oonopid spiders
(Araneae: Oonopidae) from Hainan, China
YANFENG TONG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2037: 1-114 (16 Mar. 2009) 65 plates; 69 references                         Accepted: 14 Jan. 2009
A review of the genus Pholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) from China
FENG ZHANG & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2035: 1-40 (13 Mar. 2009) 26 plates; 26 references                           Accepted: 3 Dec. 2008
Revisions of Australian ground-hunting spiders: IV. The spider subfamily
Diaprograptinae subfam. nov. (Araneomorphae: Miturgidae)
ROBERT J. RAVEN (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2021: 1-22 (27 Feb. 2009) 12 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 19 Jan. 2009
New cocalodine jumping spiders from Papua New Guinea
(Araneae: Salticidae: Cocalodinae)
WAYNE P. MADDISON (Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2006: 62-68 (9 Feb. 2009) 7 plates; 6 references                           Accepted: 6 Jan. 2009
Description of a new species of the genus Nomisia Dalmas, 1921
(Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Turkey with some faunistical remarks
Osman SEYYAR, Nusret AYYILDIZ & Aydın TOPÇU (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 2005: 47-56 (9 Feb. 2009) 6 plates; 21 references                           Accepted: 13 Nov. 2008
Three new species of the genus Mallinela (Zodariidae: Araneae)
from Yunnan Province, China
QIAO-BING WANG(China), CHANG-MING YIN (China), CHARLES GRISWOLD (USA) &
XIAN-JIN PENG (China)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 2002: 1-67 (4 Feb. 2009) 19 plates; 54 references                           Accepted: 18 Dec. 2008
A first step towards the revision of Cicurina: redescription of type specimens
of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first visual assessment of their distribution
PIERRE PAQUIN& NADINE DUPÉRRÉ
(USA)
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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1990: 65-68 (30 Jan. 2009) 2 plates; 5 references                           Accepted: 11 Dec. 2008
Redescription of Paccius quadridentatus Simon, 1898 (Araneae: Corinnidae: Trachelinae) based on the holotype
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1988: 17-32 (27 Jan. 2009) 8 plates; 25 references                           Accepted: 15 Dec. 2008
Six new cave-dwelling pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Hainan Island, with two newly recorded genera from China
YANFENG TONG & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1982: 63-65 (19 Jan. 2009) 1 plates; 4 references                           Accepted: 1 Dec. 2008
A new species of Parasyrisca (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from Xinjiang, China
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia) & NICLAS R. FRITZÉN (Finland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1982: 1-37 (19 Jan. 2009) 16 plates; 66 references                           Accepted: 24 Nov. 2008
Revision of the genus Caracladus with the description of Caracladus zamoniensis spec. nov. (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae)
HOLGER FRICK & PATRICK MUFF (Switzerland)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1970: 64-68 (5 Jan. 2009) 0 plates; 20 references                           Accepted: 22 Oct. 2008
Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)
BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1965: 50-60 (17 Dec. 2008) 4 plates; 8 references                        Accepted: 14 Nov. 2008
A review of the genus Paratus Simon (Araneae, Dionycha)
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia), GUO ZHENG (China) & SHUQIANG LI (China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1956: 59-80 (5 Dec. 2008) 12 plate; 31 references                        Accepted: 30 Oct. 2008
Telaprocera (Araneae: Araneidae), a new genus of Australian orb-web spiders
with highly elongated webs
AARON M. T. HARMER & VOLKER W. FRAMENAU (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1915: 54-68 (27 Oct. 2008) 4 plates; 17 references                           Accepted: 7 Oct. 2008
Ami, a new Theraphosid genus from Central and South America, with the description of six new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)
FERNANDO PéREZ-MILES (Uruguay), RAY GABRIEL (UK), LAURA MIGLIO (Brazil), ALEXANDRE BONALDO (Brazil), RICHARD GALLON (UK), JUAN JACOBO JIMENEZ (Colombia) & ROGERIO BERTANI (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1909: 52-64 (20 Oct. 2008) 19 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 1 Oct. 2008
Synopsis of the Ozyptila rauda-group (Araneae, Thomisidae), with revalidation of Ozyptila balkarica Ovtsharenko, 1979
YURI M. MARUSIK (Russia)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1909: 65-68 (20 Oct. 2008) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 23 Sept. 2008
The true female of Heteropoda squamacea Wang, 1990 (Araneae: Sparassidae)
JIE LIU (China), SHUQIANG LI (China) & PETER JÄGER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1893: 49-64 (6 Oct. 2008) 5 plates; 44 references                           Accepted: 16 Sept. 2008
Salticid spider phylogeny revisited, with the discovery of a large Australasian clade (Araneae: Salticidae)
WAYNE P. MADDISON, MELISSA R. BODNER, & KAREN M. NEEDHAM (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1872: 37-44 (8 Sept. 2008) 5 plates; 12 references                            Accepted: 18 Aug. 2008
Two new spider species, Malthonica bozhkovi sp. nov. and Tegenaria paragamiani sp. nov. from Rhodopy Mountains (Bulgaria and Greece) (Araneae: Agelenidae)
CHRISTO DELTSHEV (Belgium)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1861: 29-43 (1 Sep. 2008) 6 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 13 Aug. 2008
Two new spider species of the genera Aysenia and Aysenoides from southern Chile and Argentina: description and phylogenetic relationships
(Araneae: Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae)
MATÍAS A. IZQUIERDO & MARTÍN J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1857: 1-20 (27 Aug. 2008) 12 plates; 55 references                           Accepted: 17 Jul. 2008
New cave-dwelling huntsman spider species of the genus Sinopoda
(Araneae: Sparassidae) from southern China
JIE LIU (P.R. China), SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China) & PETER JÄGER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1853: 1-17 (20 Aug. 2008) 15 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 5 Aug. 2008
Notiocoelotes, a new genus of the spider subfamily Coelotinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)
XIN-PING WANG, XIANG XU & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1850: 61-64 (15 Aug. 2008) 2 plates; 18 references                           Accepted: 30 Jun. 2008
Two new species of the spider genus Poeciloneta Kulczyn'ski, 1894 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from China
HUI ZHAI & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1849: 67 (13 Aug. 2008) 0 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 17 Jul. 2008
Hersiliola brachyplura Strand, 1913 belongs to Oecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae)
VICTOR FET (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1849: 35-58 (13 Aug. 2008) 9 plates; 39 references                              Accepted: 10 Jul. 2008
Review and cladistic analysis of the Neotropical tarantula genus Ephebopus Simon 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) with notes on the Aviculariinae
RICK C. WEST (Canada), SAMUEL D. MARSHALL (USA), CAROLINE SAYURI FUKUSHIMA (Brazil) & ROGERIO BERTANI (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1826: 45-58 (21 Jul. 2008) 6 plates; 41 references                              Accepted: 8 Jul. 2008
Two new species of Pamphobeteus Pocock 1901 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Theraphosidae) from Brazil, with a new type of stridulatory organ
ROGERIO BERTANI, CAROLINE SAYURI FUKUSHIMA & PEDRO ISMAEL DA SILVA JUNIOR (Brazil)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1823: 65-68 (16 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
First description of the female of Ozyptila utotchkini (Araneae: Thomisidae)
YURI M. MARUSIK & MIKHAIL M. OMELKO (Russia)

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Zootaxa 1823: 25-41 (16 Jul. 2008) 7 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
A taxonomic review of the trapdoor spider genus Promyrmekiaphila Schenkel (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Euctenizinae)
AMY K. STOCKMAN AND JASON E. BOND (USA)

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Zootaxa 1815: 51-61 (4 Jul. 2008) 3 plates; 12 references                              Accepted: 16 Jun. 2008
Three new species, new records and notes on the nursery-web spider genus Architis in Brazil (Araneae: Pisauridae)
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS & ANDRE A. NOGUEIRA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1815: 62-68 (4 Jul. 2008) 5 plates; 14 references                              Accepted: 3 Jun. 2008
Two new species of the crab spider genus Talaus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Yunnan Province, China
GUO TANG (P.R. China), CHANG-MIN YIN (P.R. China), DARRELL UBICK (USA), & XIAN-JIN PENG (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1814: 1-20 (2 Jul. 2008) 11 plates; 36 references                              Accepted: 26 May 2008
On the spider genus Weintrauboa (Araneae, Pimoidae), with a description of a new species from China and comments on its phylogenetic relationships
GUSTAVO HORMIGA (USA)

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Zootaxa 1814: 21-36 (2 Jul. 2008) 8 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 10 Jun. 2008
Revalidation and revision of the genus Magulla Simon 1892 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Theraphosidae)
RAFAEL P. INDICATTI, SYLVIA M. LUCAS, JOSE P. L. GUADANUCCI & FLAVIO U. YAMAMOTO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1813: 60-68 (30 Jun. 2008) 4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 28 May 2008
The South American genus Quemedice Mello-Leitao (Araneae: Sparassidae): familial placement and taxonomic revision

CRISTINA A. RHEIMS (Brazil), FACUNDO M. LABARQUE (Argentina) & MARTIN J. RAMIREZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1809: 61-66 (25 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 13 references                           Accepted: 22 May 2008
On the Neotropical genus Adcatomus Karsch (Araneae: Sparassidae) 
CRISTINA ANNE RHEIMS (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1792: 1-21 (12 Jun. 2008) 12 plates; 22 references                              Accepted: 4 Apr. 2008
On Putaoa, a new genus of the spider family Pimoidae (Araneae) from China, with a cladistic test of its monophyly and phylogenetic placement
GUSTAVO HORMIGA (USA) & LIHONG TU (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1788: 66-68 (9 Jun. 2008) 1 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 6 May 2008
The true female of Alloclubionoides kimi (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Korea
BYUNG-WOO KIM & WONCHEOL LEE (Korea)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1786: 61-68 (9 Jun. 2008) 3 plates; 26 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Two new Neotropical spiders of the genera Oecobius and Platoecobius (Araneae: Oecobiidae)
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS & MARCELO O. GONZAGA (Brazil)

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Zootaxa 1786: 19-34 (9 Jun. 2008) 11 plates; 5 references                              Accepted: 7 May 2008
Ten new species of the genus Draconarius (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from China
Xiang Xu & Shuqiang Li (P.R. China)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1778: 48-58 (28 May 2008) 4 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 10 Apr. 2008
Four new cave-dwelling Platocoelotes species (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Guangxi and Guizhou, China
JIE LIU & SHUQIANG LI (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1775: 1-24 (23 May 2008) 10 plates; 23 references                           Accepted: 23 Apr. 2008
Synonymy of Homalopoltys (Araneae: Araneidae) with the genus Dolichognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) and descriptions of two new species
HELEN M. SMITH (Australia)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1761: 30-36 (2 May 2008) 2 plates; 19 references                              Accepted: 8 Apr. 2008
Review of the genus Coreodrassus (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) from China
FENG ZHANG (P.R. China) & MING-SHENG ZHU (P.R. China)

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Zootaxa 1753: 34-48 (21 Apr. 2008) 7 plates; 38 references                           Accepted: 27 Feb. 2008
A revision of the spider genera Chaetopelma Ausserer 1871 and Nesiergus Simon 1903 (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae)
JOSE PAULO L. GUADANUCCI (Brazil) & RICHARD C. GALLON (UK)

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Zootaxa 1747: 34-60 (11 Apr. 2008) 14 plates; 21 references                         Accepted: 12 Feb. 2008
Five new species of the spider genus Clubiona Latreille (Araneae: Clubionidae) from Thailand
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL & TIPPAWAN SINGTRIPOP (Thailand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1744: 31-40 (9 Apr. 2008) 2 plates; 25 references                              Accepted: 25 Mar. 2008
Review of the Nearctic genus Scyletria Bishop & Crosby (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with a transfer of S. jona to Mermessus O. Pickard-Cambridge
L. BRIAN PATRICK (USA), NADINE DUPERRE (Canada), & CHARLES D. DONDALE (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1742: 1-41 (7 Apr. 2008) 23 plates; 16 references                              Accepted: 27 Feb. 2008
The crab spiders of the genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
GUO TANG (P.R. China), CHANG-MING YIN (P.R. China), XIAN-JIN PENG (P.R. China), DARRELL UBICK (USA) & CHARLES GRISWOLD (USA)

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Zootaxa 1718: 36-44 (3 Mar. 2008) 5 plates; 8 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2007
Expanding horizons... The first report of the genus Mysmena (Araneae, Mysmenidae) from continental North America, with the description of a new species
LARA LOPARDO, NADINE DUPERRE & PIERRE PAQUIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1700: 1-20 (7 Feb. 2008) 13 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
Lineacoelotes, a new genus of Coelotinae from China (Araneae: Amaurobiidae)
XIANG XU, SHUQIANG LI & XIN-PING WANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1698: 49-56 (5 Feb. 2008) 4 plates; 17 references                              Accepted: 28 Dec. 2007
Until dirt do us apart: On the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)
DIMITAR DIMITROV, FERNANDO ALVAREZ-PADILLA & GUSTAVO HORMIGA (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1698: 65-68 (5 Feb. 2008) 1 plates; 11 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2008
Description of Harpactea sadistica n. sp. (Araneae: Dysderidae) - a haplogyne spider with reduced female genitalia
MILAN REZAC (Czech Republic)

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Zootaxa 1695: 61-68 (1 Feb. 2008) 3 plates; 9 references                              Accepted: 10 Dec. 2007
New spider species of Coelotinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from northern Thailand IV
PAKAWIN DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand) & XIN-PING WANG (P.R. China)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1674: 65-68 (7 Jan. 2008) 5 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 11 Nov. 2007
The female of Xysticus pseudorectilineus (Wunderlich, 1995) (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Turkey
HAKAN DEMIR, METIN AKTAS & OSMAN SEYYAR (Turkey)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1650: 25-40 (30 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 19 Oct. 2007
A new species of wolf spider from the Pyrenees, with remarks on other species in the Pardosa pullata-group (Araneae, Lycosidae)
TORBJORN KRONESTEDT (Sweden)

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Zootaxa 1646: 17-30 (26 Nov. 2007)  4 plates; 30 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae)
JONAS J. ASTRIN, BERNHARD MISOF & BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1635: 23-43 (12 Nov. 2007)  14 plates; 13 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae)
BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)

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Zootaxa 1635: 45-53 (12 Nov. 2007)  6 plates; 9 references                            Accepted: 8 Oct. 2007
On Old World ninetine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with a new genus and species and the first record for Madagascar
Bernhard A. Huber (Germany) & HISHAM K. EL-HENNAWY (Egypt)

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Zootaxa 1632: 1-20 (7 Nov. 2007)  8 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 5 Oct. 2007
Description of five new spiders from Canada (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
NADINE DUPERRE(Canada) & PIERRE PAQUIN (USA)

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Zootaxa 1623: 1-38 (26 Oct. 2007)  17 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 25 Sep. 2007
Sparassidae of China 4. The genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Yunnan Province
PETER JAGER & VINCENT VEDEL (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1623: 47-53 (26 Oct. 2007)  2 plates; 26 references                            Accepted: 26 Sep. 2007
First fossil Micropholcommatidae (Araneae), imaged in Eocene Paris amber using X-Ray Computed Tomography
DAVID PENNEY (UK), MANUEL DIERICK (Belgium), VEERLE CNUDDE (Belgium), BERT MASSCHAELE (Belgium), JELLE VLASSENBROECK (Belgium), LUC VAN HOOREBEKE (Belgium) & PATRIC JACOBS (Belgium)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1582: 27-37 (12 Sep. 2007)  6 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 27 Jul. 2007
Three new ground living pholcid species (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Parque Estadual da Cantareira, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
EWERTON O. MACHADO (Brazil), FLAVIO U. YAMAMOTO (Brazil), ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT (Brazil), & BERNHARD A. HUBER (Germany)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1580: 27-33 (10 Sep. 2007)  3 plates; 8 references                            Accepted: 26 Jul. 2007
Description of the female of Drymusa serrana Goloboff & Ramirez, 1991 (Araneae: Drymusidae) with notes on its biology
FACUNDO M. LABARQUE & MARTIN J. RAMIREZ (Argentina)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1578: 1-40 (7 Sep. 2007) 21 plates; 34 references                            Accepted: 6 Jun. 2007
A revision of the Neotropical nursery-web spider genus Architis (Araneae: Pisauridae)
ADALBERTO J. SANTOS (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1560: 55-61 (27 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 7 references                            Accepted: 27 Jul. 2007
Three new ground dweller Mesabolivar Gonzalez-Sponga, 1998 (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Blumenau, Santa Catarina, Brazil
EWERTON O. MACHADO, ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT, RAFAEL C. FRANCISCO (Brazil)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1560: 63-68 (27 Aug. 2007) 3 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 9 Jul. 2007
Redescription of Tagulis mystacinus (Araneae: Thomisidae) from Sri Lanka
Suresh P. Benjamin (USA) & Ziyard Jalee (Sri Lanka)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1555: 1-20 (20 Aug. 2007) 13 plates; 22 references                            Accepted: 29 Jun. 2007
A revision of the Neotropical spider genus Oligoxystre Vellard 1924 (Theraphosidae, Ischnocolinae)
JOSE PAULO LEITE GUADANUCCI (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1551: 1-30 (15 Aug. 2007) 19 plates; 44 references                            Accepted: 12 May 2007
Calommata (Atypidae) and new spider species (Araneae) from Israel
GERSHOM LEVY (Israel)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1545: 59-66 (9 Aug. 2007) 2 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
Two new species of the spider genus Otiothops MacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Caxiuana National Forest, Para Brazil
ANTONIO D. BRESCOVIT, ALEXANDRE B. BONALDO & JOSE AUGUSTO P. BARREIROS (Brazil)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1545: 67-68 (9 Aug. 2007) 1 plates; 5 references                            Accepted: 17 Jul. 2007
Jose Augusto Pereira Barreiros (1977-2007)
ALEXANDRE B. BONALDO (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1529: 49-60 (19 Jul. 2007) 5 plates; 25 references                            Accepted: 14 Jun. 2007
New Linyphiidae spiders associated with playas in the Southern High Plains (Llano Estacado) of Texas (Arachnida: Araneae)
JAMES C. COKENDOLPHER (USA), SHANNON M. TORRENCE (USA), LOREN M. SMITH (USA) & NADINE DUPERRE(Canada)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1526: 1-36 (12 Jul. 2007) 20 plates; 58 references                            Accepted: 31 May 2007
The non-Amazonian species of the Brazilian wandering spiders of the genus Phoneutria Perty, 1833 (Araneae: Ctenidae), with the description of a new species
ROSANA MARTINS and ROGERIO BERTANI (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1485: 43-49 (28 May 2007) 4 plates; 6 references                            Accepted: 20 Apr. 2007
A new species of the spider genus Xenonemesia Goloboff and first record of X. platensis Goloboff from Brazil (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Microstigmatidae)
Rafael Prezzi Indicatti, SYLVIA MARLENE LUCAS & ANTONIO DOMINGOS BRESCOVIT (Brazil)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1480: 57-68 (24 May 2007) 7 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 16 Apr. 2007
Five crab spiders of the Genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae)
GUO TANG (P.R. China), CHANG-MING YIN (P.R. China), XIAN-JIN PENG (P.R. China), DARRELL UBICK (USA) & CHARLES GRISWOLD (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1460: 47-58 (27 Apr. 2007) 5 plates; 18 references                            Accepted: 1 Feb. 2007
Revision of the North American genus Scirites (Araneae, Linyphiidae)
NADINE DUPERRE (Canada) & PIERRE PAQUIN (USA)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1460: 59-68 (27 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 29 references                             Accepted: 2 Mar. 2007
The genus Malthonica Simon, 1898 in the Iberian Peninsula (Araneae: Agelenidae)
JOSE ANTONIO BARRIENTOS (Spain) & PEDRO CARDOSO (Denmark)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1456: 63-68 (25 Apr. 2007) 3 plates; 6 references                             Accepted: 23 Mar. 2007
Three new species of the genus Clubiona from China (Araneae: Clubionidae)
PING LIU (P.R. China), HENG-MEI YAN(P.R. China), CHARLES GRISWOLD (USA) & DARRELL UBICK (USA)

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 Correspondence 
Zootaxa 1449: 65-68 (16 Apr. 2007) 2 plates; 9 references                           Accepted: 10 Mar. 2007
A new species of the selenopid crab-spider genus Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Guerrero, Mexico
ALEJANDRO VALDEZ MONDRAGóN (México)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1446: 59-68 (12 Apr. 2007) 4 plates; 14 references                           Accepted: 28 Feb. 2007
Utivarachna rama sp. n., a new species of tracheline spiders (Araneae: Corinnidae) from Thailand
THANAPHUM CHAMI-KRANON, NATDANAI LIKHITRAKARN & CHALOBOL WONGSAWAD
(Thailand)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1432: 23-33 (26 Mar. 2007) 4 plates; 27 references                          Accepted: 19 Jan. 2007
A basal phylogenetic placement for the salticid spider Eupoa, with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Salticidae)
WAYNE P. MADDISON, J.X. ZHANG, & MELISSA R. BODNER (Canada)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1426: 57-62 (15 Mar. 2007) 2 plates; 12 references                          Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Two new species of Solenysa Simon, 1894 (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from Japan
LIHONG TU ({.R. China), HIROTSUGU ONO (Japan) & SHUQIANG LI  (P.R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1425: 1-10 (15 Mar. 2007) 5 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 31 Jan. 2007
Genetic relationships of Amaurobioides (Anyphaenidae) spiders from
the southeastern coast of New Zealand
B.D. OPELL, A.M. BERGER, S.M. BOUS & M.L. MANNING (USA)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1425: 11-20 (15 Mar. 2007) 3 plates; 11 references                             Accepted: 8 Jan. 2007
Redescription of Australian crab spider Diaea pulleinei Rainbow, 1915
(Araneae: Thomisidae)
P. SZYMKOWIAK (Poland)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1425: 21-28 (15 Mar. 2007) 3 plates; 13 references                          Accepted: 24 Dec. 2006
Three new species of the genus Ambanus Ovtchinnikov, 1999 from China
(Araneae: Amaurobiidae: Coelotinae)
ZHI-SHENG ZHANG, MING-SHENG ZHU & DA-XIANG SONG (P. R. China)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1406: 61-68 (12 Feb. 2007)  4 plates; 20 references                            Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
The spider genus Uroctea Dufour, 1820 (Araneae: Oecobiidae) in Yemen
C.A. RHEIMS (Brazil), A.J. SANTOS (Brazil) & A. van HARTEN (United Arab Emirates)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1397: 47-53 (25 Jan. 2007)  2 plates; 15 references                             Accepted: 7 Dec. 2006
Allagelena monticola sp. n. (Araneae: Agelenidae), a new species of funnel-web spiders from northern Thailand
T. CHAMI-KRANON, N. LIKHITRAKARN & P. DANKITTIPAKUL (Thailand)

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 Article 
Zootaxa 1395: 59-68 (22 Jan. 2007)  4 plates; 15 references                            Accepted: 5 Dec. 2006
On Vietnamese representatives of the ant spider genus Heradion (Araneae: Zodariidae)
T. CHAMI-KRANON (Thailand) & H. ONO (Japan)
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 Article 
Zootaxa 1391: 1-34 (15 Jan. 2007)  13 plates; 37 references                           Accepted: 6 Dec. 2006
Revision of the new Australian genus Artoriopsis in a new subfamily of wolf spiders, Artoriinae (Araneae: Lycosidae)
V.W. FRAMENAU (Australia)
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2006

Zootaxa 1366: 61-68 (27 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 17 references                            Accepted: 27 Oct. 2006
Description of Sinothomisus gen. nov. with a new species from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae)
G. TANG (P.R. China), C.-M. YIN (P.R. China), C. GRISWOLD (USA) & X.-J. PENG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1365: 49-59 (27 Nov. 2006) 9 plates; 4 references                            Accepted: 25 Oct. 2006
Four new species of the genus Coelotes (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from China
X. XU & S.Q. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1364: 45-49 (23 Nov. 2006) 2 plates; 14 references                            Accepted: 18 Oct. 2006
A new species of the genus Xysticus C. L. Koch from Turkey (Araneae: Thomisidae)
H. DEMIR, A. TOPCU & T. TURKES (Turkey)
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Zootaxa 1349: 47-51 (2 Nov. 2006)  3 plates; 10 references                          Accepted: 3 Oct. 2006
A new species of the genus Zora from China (Araneae: Zoridae)
M.-S. ZHU & B.-S. ZHANG (P.R. China)
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 Monograph 
Zootaxa 1347: 1-92 (30 Oct. 2006)  38 plates; 42 references                       Accepted: 28 Jul. 2006
A revision of the Afrotropical species of Hersilia Audouin (Araneae: Hersiliidae)
S.H. FOORD & A.S. DIPPENAAR-SCHOEMAN (South Africa)
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Zootaxa 1344: 63-68 (26 Oct. 2006)  2 plates; 4 references                       Accepted: 27 Sept. 2006
Redescription of the monotypic erigonine genus Oculocornia Oliger, 1985 from the Russian Far East (Araneae, Linyphiidae)
V.A. Gnelitsa & Y.M. Marusik (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1326: 45-53 (2 Oct. 2006) 6 plates; 8  references                        Accepted:  5 Sept. 2006
First record of the Mecicobothriidae Holmberg from Brazil, with a description of a new species of Mecicobothrium (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)
S.M. LUCAS & R.P. INDICATTI, A.D. BRESCOVIT & R.C. FRANCISCO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1326: 25-36 (2 Oct. 2006)  3 plates; 8  references                         Accepted:  1 Sept. 2006
The male of Marengo nitida with the description of M. rattotensis new species from Sri Lanka (Araneae: Salticidae)
S.P. BENJAMIN (USA)
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Zootaxa 1325: 335-345 (28 Sept. 2006)  5 plates; 6  references                      Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
Martensopoda gen. nov. from southern Indian mountain ranges,
the first genus of huntsman spiders with a cymbial spur (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)
P. JÄGER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1325: 327-334 (28 Sept. 2006)  3 plates; 9  references                      Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
Heteropoda schwendingeri Jäger 2005 (Araneae: Sparassidae) — first description of female with notes on intraspecific variation and evidences supporting species status

P. EUSEMANN & P. JÄGER (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1325: 319-326 (28 Sept. 2006)  3 plates; 7  references                      Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
Two new species of spiders of the family Zodariidae (Araneae)
from eastern Nepal
H. ONO (Japan)
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Zootaxa 1325: 313-318 (28 Sept. 2006)  2 plates; 3  references                      Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
Spatiator martensi n. sp., a second species of the extinct spider family Spatiatoridae in Eocene Baltic amber (Araneae)

J. WUNDERLICH (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1325: 277-311 (28 Sept. 2006)  16 plates; 19  references                   Accepted:  25 Jul. 2006
On some Linyphiidae of China, mainly from Taibai Shan, Qinling Mountains, Shaanxi Province (Arachnida: Araneae)

A.V. TANASEVITCH (Russia)
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Zootaxa 1307: 63-68 (8 Sep. 2006)  12 plates; 5  references                             Accepted:  8 Aug. 2006
A new species of the genus Tonsilla (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from mountains of Sichuan, China
X. XU & S.Q. LI (P.R.China)
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Zootaxa 1304: 1-20 (28 Aug. 2006)  9 plates; 39  references                             Accepted:  14 Jul. 2006
Revision of the Australian wolf spider genus Anomalosa Roewer, 1960 (Araneae: Lycosidae)
V.W. FRAMENAU (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1285: 65-68 (11 Aug. 2006) 1 plate; 2 references                            Accepted:  17 Jul. 2006
Description of Eupoa liaoi sp. nov. from China (Araneae: Salticidae)
X.-J. PENG & S.-Q. LI (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1281: 55-67 (7 Aug. 2006) 3 plates; 29 references                               Accepted:  6 Jul. 2006
Knoelle, a new monotypic wolf spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae)
V.W. FRAMENAU (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1277: 23-27 (31 Jul. 2006) 2 plates; 3 references                              Accepted:  6 Jun. 2006
A new species of Losdolobus Platnick & Brescovit, 1994 (Araneae: Dysderoidea: Orsolobidae) from southern Brazil
A.A. LISE & L. ALMEIDA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1276: 39-45 (31 Jul. 2006) 2 plates; 8 references                               Accepted: 6 Jul. 2006
Redescription of the male of Pikelinia tambilloi (Mello-Leitão, 1941) and its synonymy with Pikelinia toba Ramírez & Grismado, 1997 (Araneae: Filistatidae: Prithinae)
C.J. GRISMADO & M.J. RAMÍREZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1275: 61-68 (31 Jul. 2006) 6 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 4 Jul. 2006
Description of two new spider genera of Trechaleidae (Araneae: Lycosoidea) from Northern Brazil
E.L.C. DA SILVA & A.A. LISE (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1259: 33-38 (14 Jul. 2006)  3 plates; 11 references                           Accepted: 29 May 2006
Symphytognathidae (Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from China
Y.-F. TONG & S.-Q. LI (P.R. China) 
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Zootaxa 1255: 17-28 (10 Jul. 2006)  4 plates; 12 references                           Accepted: 12 Jun. 2006
New lapsiine jumping spiders from Ecuador (Araneae: Salticidae)
W.P. MADDISON (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1255: 29-35 (10 Jul. 2006)  2 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 12 Jun. 2006
New lyssomanine and hisponine jumping spiders from Africa (Araneae: Salticidae)
W.P. MADDISON & J.X. ZHANG (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1255: 37-55 (10 Jul. 2006)  5 plates; 40 references                            Accepted: 12 Jun. 2006
Lapsiines and hisponines as phylogenetically basal salticid spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
W.P. MADDISON & K.M. NEEDHAM (Canada) 
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Zootaxa 1202: 33-37 (15 May 2006) 1 plate; 9 references                                 Accepted: 11 Apr. 2006
A new species of Neocteniza Pocock 1895 (Araneae, Idiopidae) from Brazil
R. BERTANI, C.S. FUKUSHIMA & R.H. NAGAHAMA (Brazil) 
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Zootaxa 1172: 43-48 (13 Apr. 2006) 1 plate; 14 references                             Accepted: 22 Feb. 2006
Discovery of the spider family Desidae (Araneae) in South China, with description of a new species of the genus Badumna Thorell, 1890
M.-S. ZHU, Z.-S. ZHANG & Z.-Z. YANG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1169: 1-32 (10 Apr. 2006) 3 plates; 28 references                               Accepted: 28 Feb. 2006
Taxonomic revision of the epigean representatives of the spider subfamily Harpacteinae (Araneae: Dysderidae) on the island of Crete
M. CHATZAKI (Greece) & M.A. ARNEDO (Spain)
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Zootaxa 1151: 41-46 (14 Mar. 2006) 3 plates; 7 references                             Accepted: 12 Jan. 2006
A new species of the genus Sanmenia Song & Kim, 1992 (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Yunnan Province, China
Z.-Z. YANG, M.-S. ZHU & D.-X. SONG  (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1147: 1-34 (10 Mar. 2006) 18 plates; 28 references                           Accepted: 31 Jan. 2006
New species of Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Africa and Southeast Asia, with notes on sociality and color polymorphism
I. AGNARSSON (Canada) & J.-X. ZHANG (USA)
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Zootaxa 1140: 31-51 (6 Mar. 2006) 10 plates; 20 references                              Accepted: 1 Feb. 2006
Revision of the spider family Trochanteriidae from China (Araneae: Gnaphosoidea)
M.-S. ZHU, G.-M. TANG, F. ZHANG & D.-X. SONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1133: 1-37 (23 Feb. 2006) 9 plates; 45 references                             Accepted: 12 Jan. 2006
The spiders of Quebec: update, additions and corrections
P. PAQUIN (USA) & N. DUPERRE (Canada)
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Zootaxa 1118: 1-42 (30 Jan. 2006) 14 plates; 43 references                            Accepted: 16 Nov. 2005
A revision of the genus Atypus in China (Araneae: Atypidae)
M.-S. ZHU, F. ZHANG, D.X. SONG & P. QU (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1115: 61-68 (27 Jan. 2006) 2 plates; 4 references                              Accepted: 16 Nov. 2005
Megaphobema teceae n. sp. (Araneae, Theraphosidae), a new theraphosine spider from Brazilian Amazonia
F. PEREZ-MILES (Uruguay), L.T. MIGLIO (Brazil) & A.B. BONALDO (Brazil)
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2005

Zootaxa 1088: 11-16 (29 Nov. 2005) 3 plates; 5 references                             Accepted:  9 Aug. 2005
Description of a new genus of Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) from the Brazilian Cerrado
R. P. INDICATTI  & S. M. LUCAS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1069: 33-45 (25 Oct. 2005) 2 plates; 32 references                           Accepted: 6 Jun. 2005
A new species of Tapinocyba (Araneae, Linyphiidae) with a redescription of Tapinocyba minuta (Emerton)
N. DUPÉRRÉ & P. PAQUIN  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1058: 1-34 (4 Oct. 2005) 18 plates; 20 references                             Accepted: 10 Sept. 2005
Mygalomorph spiders from southwestern Oregon, USA, with descriptions of four new species
J.C. COKENDOLPHER, R.W. PECK & C.G. NIWA  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1057: 45-50 (4 Oct. 2005) 2 plates; 5 references                             Accepted: 2 Sept. 2005
Draconarius exilis, a new species of coelotine spider from China (Araneae, Amaurobiidae)
Z.-S. ZHANG (P.R. China), M.-S. ZHU (P.R. China)  & X.-P. WANG  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1044: 17-26 (2 Sept. 2005) 4 plates; 6 references                              Accepted: 1 Jul. 2005
Heteropoda dagmarae sp. nov. from Laos—a close relative of Heteropoda javana (Simon 1880) from Indonesia (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae)
PETER JÄGER & VINCENT VEDEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 1021: 45-63 (22 Jul. 2005) 6 plates; 45 references                            Accepted: 15 Jun. 2005
On Agelena labyrinthica (Clerck, 1757) and some allied species, with descriptions of two new species of the genus Agelena from China (Araneae: Agelenidae)
Z.-S. ZHANG, M.-S. ZHU & D.-X. SONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1017: 1-17 (12 Jul. 2005) 5 plates; 21 references                               Accepted: 17 Jun. 2005
Revision of the spider genus Hamataliwa Keyserling from China (Araneae: Oxyopidae)
J.-X. ZHANG, M.-S. ZHU  & D.-X. SONG  (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 1016: 49-55 (8 Jul. 2005) 4 plates; 11 references                               Accepted: 6 Jun. 2005
Pertica Simon 1903, a junior synonym of Segestrioides Keyserling, 1883 (Araneae, Diguetidae)
A.D. BRESCOVIT  & C.A. RHEIMS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 1016: 57-64 (8 Jul. 2005) 3 plates; 14 references                               Accepted: 7 Jun. 2005
Melychiopharis: an atypical orb-weaving spider from South America (Araneae: Araneidae)
A.J. SANTOS  (Brazil), A.D. BRESCOVIT  (Brazil) & H.W. LEVI  (USA)
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Zootaxa 1009: 51-60 (17 Jun. 2005) 4 plates; 7 references                              Accepted: 12 May 2005
Ant-eating spiders (Araneae: Zodariidae) of Portugal: additions to the current knowledge
S. Pekár (Czech Republic) & P. Cardoso  (Denmark)
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Zootaxa 1004: 15-28 (7 Jun. 2005) 6 plates; 14 references                               Accepted: 9 May 2005
A new tarantula species from northern Australia (Araneae, Theraphosidae)
R.J. RAVEN (Australia)
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Zootaxa 1003: 33-44 (3 Jun. 2005) 4 plates; 13 references                               Accepted: 4 May 2005
Four new species of Selenops (Araneae, Selenopidae) and comments on the distribution of Afrotropical species
J.A. CORRONCA  (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 1003: 45-56 (3 Jun. 2005) 6 plates; 13 references                              Accepted: 28 Apr. 2005
Encyocratella olivacea Strand, 1907, a senior synonym of Xenodendrophila gabrieli Gallon, 2003 (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Stromatopelminae) with a description of the male
R.C. GALLON (UK)
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Zootaxa 982: 1-13 (19 May 2005) 5 plates; 19 references                                  Accepted: 4 May 2005
Description of Ossinissa, a new pholcid genus from the Canary Islands (Araneae: Pholcidae)
D. DIMITROV & C. RIBERA  (Spain)
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Zootaxa 970: 1-11 (6 May 2005) 4 plates; 8 references                                    Accepted: 23 Apr. 2005
New and poorly known species of coelotine spiders (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Thailand
P. DANKITTIPAKUL (New Zealand), T. CHAMI-KRANON  (Thailand) & X.-P. WANG  (USA)
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Zootaxa 944: 1-10 (18 Apr. 2005) 5 plates; 12 references                                Accepted: 31 Mar. 2005
On the new genus Tropizodium (Araneae: Zodariidae), representing the femoral organ clade in Australia and the Pacific
R. JOCQUÉ (Belgium) & T.B. CHURCHILL (Australia)
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Zootaxa 937: 1-12 (12 Apr. 2005) 6 plates; 10 references                               Accepted: 31 Mar. 2005
Four new species and new records for the spider genus Synotaxus Simon, 1895 (Araneae: Synotaxidae) from Brazil
A.J. SANTOS  & C.A. RHEIMS  (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 904: 1-19 (18 Mar. 2005) 8 plates; 21 references                               Accepted: 23 Feb. 2005
Descriptions of a new species and previously unknown males of Nesticus (Araneae: Nesticidae) from caves in Eastern North America, with comments on species rarity
M. HEDIN  & B. DELLINGER (USA)
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Zootaxa 872: 1-19 (25 Feb. 2005) 5 plates; 38 references                                ccepted: 10 Feb. 2005
Two sympatric species of Antrodiaetus from southwestern North Carolina (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Antrodiaetidae)
B.E. HENDRIXSON & J.E. BOND (USA)
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Zootaxa 846: 1-31 (1 Feb. 2005)  14 plates, 38 references                                Accepted: 24 Jan. 2005
Revision of Cyriocosmus Simon, 1903, with notes on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
C.S. FUKUSHIMA, R. BERTANI  & P. I. DA SILVA JR (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 842: 1-7 (27 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 17 references                                   Accepted: 18 Jan. 2005
A new Anyphaena species from China (Araneae: Anyphaenidae)
F. ZHANG, M.-S. ZHU & D.-X. SONG (P.R. China)
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Zootaxa 837: 1-5 (27 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 7 references                                     Accepted: 24 Jan. 2005
Pseudopoda fissa sp. nov. — first record of the genus from Vietnam (Araneae: Sparassidae)
P. JÄGER & V. VEDEL (Germany)
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Zootaxa 836: 1-7 (27 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 7 references                                    Accepted: 19 Jan. 2005
Notes on spiders of the genus Scytodes Latreille (Arachnida, Araneae, Scytodidae) from the Ferreira Penna Scientific Station, Pará, Brazil
C.A. RHEIMS, J.A.P. BARREIROS, A.D. BRESCOVIT  & AB. BONALDO (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 835: 1-8 (27 Jan. 2005) 2 plates, 6 references                                       Accepted: 2 Dec. 2004
On a new species of Ericaella Bonaldo (Araneae, Miturgidae, Eutichurinae), with a cladistic analysis of the genus
A.B. BONALDO, A.D. BRESCOVIT & C.A. RHEIMS  (Brazil)
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2004

Zootaxa 697: 1-5 (25 October 2004) 1 plate; 12 references                               Accepted: 8 Oct. 2004
A new species of Drymusa Simon, 1891 (Araneae, Drymusidae) from Brazil
A.D. BRESCOVIT, A.B. BONALDO & C.A.
RHEIMS (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 671: 1-14 (4 October 2004)  3 plates; 23 references                         Accepted: 18 Sept. 2004
Description of Catumiri n. gen. and three new species (Theraphosidae: Ischnocolinae)
J.P.L. GUADANUCCI
(Brazil)
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Zootaxa 668: 1-8 (4 October 2004)  3 plates; 8 references                             Accepted: 17 Sept. 2004
Description of the females of Oxysoma itambezinho Ramírez and Monapia tandil Ramírez, and their effects on the generic relationships of Gayennini (Araneae, Anyphaenidae, Amaurobioidinae)
M.J. RAMÍREZ, M.J. ANSALDI & A.F. PUGLISI
(Argentina)
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Zootaxa 648: 1-8 (20 September 2004) 5 plates, 11 references                        Accepted: 2 Sept. 2004
Notes on Acanthoscurria chacoana Brèthes, 1909 (Araneae: Theraphosidae) in Brazil, and its synonymy with Acanthoscurria altmanni Schmidt, 2003
R. BERTANI & S. CARLA-DA-SILVA (Brazil)
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Zootaxa 619: 1-14 (27 August 2004) 5 plates; 28 references                          Accepted: 13 Aug. 2004
A new species of Stasimopus from the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae), with notes on its natural history
B.E. HENDRIXSON & J.E. BOND (USA)

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Zootaxa 453: 1-7 (4 March 2004) 4 plates; 4 references                         Accepted: 20 February 2004
A new species of the genus Storenomorpha Simon from Vietnam (Araneae, Zodariidae)
C.J. GRISMADO & M.J. RAMIREZ (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 445: 1-7 (1 March 2004) 4 plates; 20 references                       Accepted: 17 February 2004
A new Garcorops species from Madagascar copal (Araneae: Selenopidae)
JAN BOSSELAERS (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 397: 1-7 (9 January 2004) 3 plates; 6 references                     Accepted: 13 December 2003
A new species in the genus Alopecosa Simon, 1885 from Korea (Araneae: Lycosidae)
J. YOO (Korea), J. KIM (Korea) & H. TANAKA (Japan)
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2003

Zootaxa 362: 1-8 (21 November 2003) 4 plates; 7 references               Accepted: 10 November 2003
Notes on the genus Iracema Pérez-Miles, 2000 with the first description of the male of I. horrida (Schmidt, 1994) (Araneae: Theraphosidae)
R. BERTANI & S. CARLA-DA-SILVA (Brazil)
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2002

Zootaxa 109: 1-8 (26 November 2002)  3 plates; 24 references            Accepted: 15 November 2002
A new Savignia from Cretan caves (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
J. BOSSELAERS & H. HENDERICKX (Belgium)
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Zootaxa 107: 1-35 (20 November 2002)  10 plates; 24 references          Accepted: 8 November 2002
A taxonomic revision of the afrotropical species of Selenops Latreille, 1819 (Araneae, Selenopidae)
J. A. CORRONCA  (Argentina)
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Zootaxa 94: 1-6 (5 November 2002)  3 plates; 6 references                      Accepted: 24 October 2002
A new species of Loxosceles of the laeta group from Brazil (Araneae: Sicariidae)
R. MARTINS, I. KNYSAK & R. BERTANI (Brazil)
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