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Yinanyphaena gen. nov., a new ghost spider genus with descriptions of five new species and seven new combinations from China (Araneae, Anyphaenidae)

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  Yinanyphaena gen. nov., a new ghost spider genus with descriptions of five new species and seven new combinations from China (Araneae, Anyphaenidae) Abstract A new genus, Yinanyphaena Wang & Mi, gen. nov ., of the family Anyphaenidae Bertkau, 1878, is proposed based on molecular phylogenetic results and morphological evidence. Five new species collected from the Qomolangma National Nature Reserve, Xizang, China are described: Y. haochuni Wang & Mi, sp. nov . (♂♀), Y. jinhuai Wang & Mi, sp. nov . (♂♀), Y. qomolangma Wang & Mi, sp. nov . (♂♀), Y. shikaii Wang & Mi, sp. nov . (♀), and Y. xufeii Wang & Mi, sp. nov . (♀). In addition, seven new combinations transferred from Anyphaena Sundevall, 1833 are also proposed: Y. cibagou (Wang & Mi, 2024), comb. nov ., Y. linzhi (Wang & Mi, 2024), comb. nov ., Y. rhynchophysa (Feng, Ma & Yang, 2012), comb. nov ., Y. shufui (Wang & Mi, 2024), comb. nov ., Y. tibet (Lin & Li, 202...

The Asian Dragon Puzzle: how multiple dispersal events have shaped the evolutionary history of Eastern Asian dragon pseudoscorpions (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones: Allochthonius)

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Fourteen new species and notes on the genera Amauropelma Raven, Stumkat & Gray, 2001 and Bowie Jäger, 2022 (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae) from Southeast Asia

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Six new species of Pandercetes L. Koch, 1875 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Southeast Asia

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The urgent need for snakebite surveillance access and treatment in the Philippines

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A new species of Theridion Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Ganjiangyuan National Nature Reserve, southern China

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Functional and immunological variability of Viperid venoms across continents and cross-neutralization by Peruvian antivenoms

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Descriptions of three new Heteropoda spiders from tropical Asia (Araneae: Sparassidae)

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Open-access IMRC-Exo mitigates Deinagkistrodon acutus venom-induced limb injury in rabbits by inhibiting GSDME-dependent pyroptosis

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Revision of the velvet spiders (Araneae, Eresidae) with a new record from South Korea

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Asiopisinus gen. nov., a new genus of the family Theridiidae Sundevall, 1833 (Araneae, Theridiidae) from eastern Asia

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Three new genera of wolf spiders (Araneae, Lycosidae) living on the forest floor in East Asia

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Molecular phylogeny of the hadrotarsine genera from East Asia provides new insights for their affinities and positions within cobweb spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae: Hadrotarsinae)

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Two new wolf-spider species in the genus Hippasosa from Asia (Araneae, Lycosidae)

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New and poorly known species of Bowie Jäger, 2022 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Southeast Asia

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A chromosome-level genome assembly for the desert scorpion Mesobuthus przewalskii from Asian drylands

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Five new Heteropoda species from Southeast Asia (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae)

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Further notes on the fossorial wolf spiders of Central Asia and the Near East (Aranei, Lycosidae)

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Phylogeography of the desert scorpion illuminates a route out of Central Asia

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