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What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae)

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  What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae) Abstract We designate a neotype for the Eurasian spider species Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757, thereby fixing the objective application of the species name, the genus name Araneus Clerck 1757, the family name Araneidae Clerck 1757, and the superfamily name Araneoidea Clerck 1757. By etymology and arachnological tradition, it also unofficially fixes the application of the ordinal name Araneae Clerck 1757 and thus answers the uncontroversial question, “What’s a spider?” A. angulatus also happens to be historically the first animal species ever described because Clerck (1757) has priority over Linnaeus (1758). Neotype designation is justified for three reasons: the syntypes of A. angulatus are lost; “ A. angulatus ” contains significant COI sequence divergence, potentially representing intraspecific variation, misidentifications, or as many...

A new species of the web-inhabiting bug genus Heissophila Schuh (Hemiptera, Plokiophilidae) from China, with notes on host associations for the genus

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A review of the genus Platydialepis Haupt (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae) of China, with description of four new species and key to the species

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Taxonomic revision of the Central and West African eumenophorine tarantulas (Araneae: Theraphosidae: Eumenophorinae)

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Two new species of Poeciloneta Kulczyński, 1894 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Xizang, China

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Five new species of Shaanxinus Tanasevitch, 2006 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China

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Systematics and Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Tarantulas: A Genomic Approach to Dolichothele (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Diversification Across Domains

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Species diversity in the segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae), with descriptions of 12 new species from Guizhou Province, China

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

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

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Taxonomy Takes Time: Shortcuts to Synonymy

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A new species of Mesiotelus Simon (Araneae: Liocranidae) from Turkey

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Wadicosa Zyuzin (Araneae: Lycosidae): a new species; and genus transfer of Pardosa mendicans (Simon) from the Arabian Peninsula

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Three new species of the genus Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae, Sparassidae, Heteropodinae) from China

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Unveiling Neotropical Hadrotarsinae (Araneae: Theridiidae): new species and new records of Dipoena from South America

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Forty New Faunistic Records of Spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae) for the Republic of Kosovo

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A new species of the genus Spinoctenus Hazzi, Polotow, Brescovit, González-Obando et Simó, 2018 (Araneae: Ctenidae) from Panama

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On Crypsidromus carinatus Valerio, 1980 and its palpal bulb morphology (Araneae: Theraphosidae)

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