Wishbone spiders of the genus Kwonkan Main, 1983 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Anamidae) in south-western Australia: Redescription of legacy species, two new species, and an assessment of agricultural zone diversity

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  Wishbone spiders of the genus Kwonkan Main, 1983 ( Araneae : Mygalomorphae : Anamidae ) in south-western Australia: Redescription of legacy species, two new species, and an assessment of agricultural zone diversity Abstract The collar-door wishbone spiders of the genus Kwonkan Main, 1983 are an Australian-endemic lineage of mygalomorph spiders that often construct elaborate burrow entrances, including collars and turrets, and remain poorly documented across their range, despite museum collections indicating high local endemism and substantial undescribed diversity. Much of the existing taxonomy, including nine of the 14 currently described species, was based on limited material and lacked modern morphological or molecular approaches to species delimitation, hindering efforts to document the remaining diversity and address conservation concerns. Here, we redescribe all nine legacy species and review Kwonkan diversity within the south-western Western Australian ( SWWA ) agricult...

We have two of them: A review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria

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We have two of them: A review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria

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In the present study, we review the status of the genus Mastigusa Menge, 1854 in Bulgaria. We identified two species from the country, namely M. arietina (Thorell, 1871) and M. macrophthalma (Kulczyński, 1897). This is the first record of M. arietina from Bulgaria. Furthermore, we report a male palpal polymorphism in M. arietina in the populations around the Black Sea. We also provide molecular support for our conclusions, combining newly generated DNA sequences with information available in GenBank.

Indzhov, S., Haynadzhieva, V., Střeštík, V., Dimitrov, D. & Dimitrov, D. (2025) We have two of them: A review of the genus Mastigusa (Araneae: Cybaeidae) in Bulgaria. Zootaxa, 5711 (4), 579–588. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5711.4.7