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Notes on Indian wolf spiders: IV. Transfer of species previously included in the genera Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 and Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904 (Araneae: Lycosidae)

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  Notes on Indian wolf spiders: IV. Transfer of species previously included in the genera Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 and Geolycosa Montgomery, 1904 (Araneae: Lycosidae) The enigmatic Crocodilosa Caporiacco, 1947 sensu lato currently consists of five nominal species distributed in Africa and Asia (World Spider Catalog 2026). It was established for C. kittenbergeri Caporiacco, 1947, with a superficial generic diagnosis relying only on somatic features such as length of eye rows, leg spination and relative leg lengths (Caporiacco 1947). Roewer (1955), following Caporiacco’s (1947) generic diagnosis, drastically increased the number of Crocodilosa species by transferring several species from other lycosid genera, but most of these subsequently added species were later reassigned to their appropriate genera (World Spider Catalog 2026), highlighting the need for a re-examination of the type species and remaining congeners to clarify the validity of Crocodilosa. At present, the genus ha...

Diversity loss of spider-hunting wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) induced by soybean fields in Brazilian Amazon, Cerrado, and in transitional zones

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Charinus paradoxus sp. nov. (Amblypygi: Charontidae), a new whip spider species from Colombia

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Distributional Notes on Three Wolf Spider Species (Araneae: Lycosidae) Recorded for the First Time in Diyala Province, Iraq

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Morphological and molecular identification of the scorpion Androctonus crassicauda (Olivier, 1807), using COI and 12S rRNA genes from the Provinces of Dhi Qar and Wasit, Iraq

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Two New Species of the Genus Brignoliolus Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Agelenidae) from Türkiye

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Multiple genetic lineages of the invasive brown widow spider (Araneae: Theridiidae) from inland areas in the Kanto region, Japan

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First description of the male of Troglocoelotes doul Lin & Li, 2024 (Araneae, Agelenidae, Coelotinae)

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Envenomation by a Razi’s Viper, Macrovipera razii (Serpentes: Viperidae) in Iran: A Neglected Public Health Threat, Report of Two Cases, and Clinical Implications

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First chance to see: New jumping-spider species from Batanta, Indonesia (Araneae, Salticidae, Euophryini)

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Hydrophobic Interaction Chromatography Coupled to High-Throughput Venomics for Snake Venom Characterisation with Parallel Bioactivity Assessment

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Ziyuglycoside I Attenuates Deinagkistrodon acutus Venom–Induced Injury in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells by Modulating PAR1–NLRP3–IL-1β Signaling

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Re-examination of the type materials of seven species of Plexippina (Araneae, Salticidae) from China

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Admission Point-of-Care D-Dimer for Identifying Haemostatic Envenomation After Snakebite: A Prospective Observational Study

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The impact of Centruroides tecomanus scorpion venom on cardiac function in rats during early envenomation

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Climatic and density-dependent drivers of population dynamics in a hazardous urban scorpion species over seven years

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