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New sequencing technologies, the development of genomics tools, and their applications in evolutionary arachnology

Authors: Michael S Brewer | Darko D Cotoras | Peter J P Croucher | Rosemary G Gillespie

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 1-15

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/m13-78.1

A new spider (Araneae: Haplogynae: Plectreuridae) from the Cretaceous Fossil-Lagerstätte of El Montsec, Spain

Authors: Paul A Selden

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 16-23

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b13-51.1

Sex ratio bias caused by endosymbiont infection in the dwarf spider Oedothorax retusus

Authors: Bram Vanthournout | Viki Vandomme | Frederik Hendrickx

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 24-33

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/hi12-37.1

Vertical stratification of spider assemblages in two conifer plantations in central Japan

Authors: Hiroki Oguri | Tomohiro Yoshida | Akihiro Nakamura | Masashi Soga | Naoki Hijii

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 34-43

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-73.1

Assessing spider diversity on the forest floor: expert knowledge beats systematic design

Authors: Elvira Sereda | Theo Blick | Wolfgang H O Dorow | Volkmar Wolters | Klaus Birkhofer

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 44-51

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-16.1

The conservation value of secondary forests in the southern Brazilian Mata Atlântica from a spider perspective

Authors: Florian Raub | Hubert Höfer | Ludger Scheuermann | Roland Brandl

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 52-73

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-47.1

Trophic niche and predatory behavior of the goblin spider Triaeris stenaspis (Oonopidae): a springtail specialist?

Authors: Stanislav Korenko | Kateřina Hamouzová | Stano Pekár

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 74-78

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/hi12-90.1

Use of locomotor performance capacities reflects the risk level associated with specific cue types in two cursorial spider species

Authors: Joseph A Dillon | Jonathan N Pruitt

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 79-85

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j13-68.1

A review and redescription of the cosmopolitan pseudoscorpion Chelifer cancroides (Pseudoscorpiones: Cheliferidae)

Authors: Mark S Harvey

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 86-104

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/k13-57.1

A new troglobitic ideoroncid pseudoscorpion (Pseudoscorpiones: Ideoroncidae) from southern Africa

Authors: Mark S Harvey | Gerhard Du Preez

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 105-110

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/k13-55.1

Comparison of scorpion behavioral responses to UV under sunset and nighttime irradiances

Authors: Douglas D Gaffin | Tristan N Barker

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 111-118

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/hi12-91.1

Fine structure of the stinger (aculeus) in Euscorpius

Authors: Rainer Foelix | Bruno Erb | Matt Braunwalder

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 119-122

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b13-64.1

Intense leg tapping behavior by the harvestman Mischonyx cuspidatus (Gonyleptidae): an undescribed defensive behavior in Opiliones?

Authors: Bárbara Crespo Dias | Elene Da Silva Souza | Marcos Ryotaro Hara | Rodrigo Hirata Willemart

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 123-125

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/hi12-06.1

Seasonal patterns of microhabitat selection by a sub-tropical whip spider, Phrynus longipes , in the Luquillo Experimental Forest, Puerto Rico

Authors: Caroline A Curtis | Christopher P Bloch

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 126-129

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-65.1

Natural prey of the crab spider Xysticus marmoratus (Araneae: Thomisidae) on Eryngium plants

Authors: Elchin Fizuli Oglu Huseynov

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 1, pages 130-132

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-86.1

The effect of forest stand characteristics on spider diversity and species composition in deciduous-coniferous mixed forests

Authors: Ferenc Samu | Gábor Lengyel | Éva Szita | András Bidló | Péter Ódor

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 135-141

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/cp13-75.1

Progress and prospects in taxonomy: what is our goal and are we ever going to reach it?

Authors: Bernhard A Huber

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 142-147

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/ck13-69.1

Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 148-154

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/k13-84.1

A new species of Charinus from Minas Gerais State, Brazil, with comments on its sexual dimorphism (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae)

Authors: Ana Caroline O Vasconcelos | Alessandro P L Giupponi | Rodrigo L Ferreira

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 155-162

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/h14-01.1

Scorpion diversity of the Central Andes in Argentina

Authors: F Fernández Campón | S Lagos Silnik | L A Fedeli

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 163-169

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-30.1

Juvenile experience and adult female mating preferences in two closely related Schizocosa species

Authors: Jenai M Rutledge | George W Uetz

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 170-177

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j14-10.1

Nocturnal, diurnal, crepuscular: activity assessments of Pisauridae and Lycosidae

Authors: Robert B Suter | Kari Benson

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 178-191

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j13-66.1

Submersion tolerance in a lakeshore population of Pardosa lapidicina (Araneae: Lycosidae)

Authors: Carl N Keiser | Jonathan N Pruitt

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 192-194

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b13-44.1

Microhabitat distribution of Drapetisca alteranda , a tree trunk specialist sheet web weaver (Araneae: Linyphiidae)

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 195-198

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/0161-8202-42.2.195

Diet composition and prey selectivity by the spider Oecobius concinnus (Araneae: Oecobiidae) from Colombia

Authors: Luis Fernando García | Mariángeles Lacava | Carmen Viera

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 2, pages 199-201

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/p13-81.1

Troglomorphic pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones) of northern Arizona, with the description of two new short-range endemic species

Authors: Mark S Harvey | J Judson Wynne

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 205-219

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/k14-34.1

A new genus and a new species of scorpion (Scorpiones: Buthidae) from southeastern Mexico

Authors: Oscar F Francke | Rolando Teruel | Carlos Eduardo Santibáñez-López

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 220-232

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/ha13-33.1

Description of Sarax buxtoni (Gravely 1915) (Arachnida: Amblypygi: Charinidae) and a new case of parthenogenesis in Amblypygi from Singapore

Authors: Michael Seiter | Jonas Wolff

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 233-239

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/ha14-13.1

The new spider genus Arctenus , an afrotropical representative of the Calocteninae (Araneae: Ctenidae)

Authors: Daniele Polotow | Rudy Jocqué

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 240-247

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/0161-8202-42.3.240

Chemical defenses in the opilionid infraorder Insidiatores: divergence in chemical defenses between Triaenonychidae and Travunioidea and within travunioid harvestmen (Opiliones) from eastern and western North America

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 248-256

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b14-41.1

Species differences and geographic variation in the communal roosting behavior of Prionostemma harvestmen in Central American rainforests

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 257-267

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j14-27.1

From spiderling to senescence: ontogeny of color in the jumping spider, Habronattus pyrrithrix

Authors: Lisa A Taylor | David L Clark | Kevin J Mcgraw

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 268-276

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/0161-8202-42.3.268

Scavenging throughout the life cycle of the jumping spider, Phidippus audax (Hentz) (Araneae: Salticidae)

Authors: Michael E Vickers | Marianne W Robertson | Casey R Watson | Travis E Wilcoxen

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 277-283

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j13-31.1

Removal of genital plugs and insemination by males with normal and experimentally modified palps in Leucauge mariana (Araneae: Tetragnathidae)

Authors: Vivian Méndez | William G Eberhard

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 284-292

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/0161-8202-42.3.284

Burrow structure and microhabitat characteristics of Nesiergus insulanus (Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Frégate Island, Seychelles

Authors: Gregory Canning | Brian K Reilly | Ansie S Dippenaar-Schoeman

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 293-298

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j13-59.1

Thermal preference of Dysdera crocata C. L. Koch 1838 (Araneae: Dysderidae)

Authors: Rita Sepúlveda | Andres Taucare-Rios | Claudio Veloso | Mauricio Canals

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 299-302

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b13-87.1

Natural history of Phoneutria boliviensis (Araneae: Ctenidae): habitats, reproductive behavior, postembryonic development and prey-wrapping

Authors: Nicolas A Hazzi

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 303-310

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/hi13-05.1

The mechanism behind plasticity of web-building behavior in an orb spider facing spatial constraints

Authors: Thomas Hesselberg

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 311-314

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/j14-05.1

Development of novel microsatellite markers for the spider genus Loxosceles (Sicariidae) using next-generation sequencing

Authors: Enric Planas | Laia Bernaus | Carles Ribera

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 315-317

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b13-88.1

Pre-ballooning in Ummidia Thorell 1875 (Araneae: Ctenizidae) from the Interior Highlands, USA: second account from the region and review of mygalomorph ballooning

Authors: J Ray Fisher | Danielle M Fisher | Michael J Skvarla | Ashley P G Dowling

Published in Journal of Arachnology, in 2014, in volume 42, issue 3, pages 318-321

Created: 2017-04-11, modified: 2017-04-11

doi:10.1636/b14-43.1