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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 locality record of Calchas anlasi Yağmur, Soleglad, Fet & Kovařík, 2013 from Hakkari Province, Turkey (Scorpiones, Iuridae, Calchinae)

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One more new species of Chaerilobuthus Lourenço & beigel, 2011 (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmite

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Cicileus derradji sp. nov., a New Species from Southern Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Compsobuthus lakkiansis sp. nov. (Scorpiones: Buthidae), New Species from Pakistan

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Venom composition of the scorpion Chactas exsul (Scorpiones: Chactidae) from the Premontane tropical rainforest of Costa Rica

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Envenomization with Snake Versus Scorpion Venom: Postmortem Repercussions on the Successional Dynamics of Carcass-Attracted Flies in a Forensic Context

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New considerations on the species of the genus Bothriurus Peters (Scorpiones: Bothriuridae) described or cited from the state of Paraná, Brazil and description of a new species

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A new species of Lychas C. L. Koch, 1845 from a cave in the Sai Yok National Parc in Thailand (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Scorpion Venom Peptides: From Structural Scaffolds to Therapeutic Applications—A Focus on Antioxidant Mechanisms and Translational Perspectives

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Structural determinants of the scorpion venom peptide Uy234 govern bactericidal activity and membrane-disruptive properties

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Effect of temperature on the defensive and predatory behavior of the scorpion Hadrurus obscurus (Scorpiones: Hadruridae)

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New species and faunal records of the scorpions of Nehbandan County, eastern Iran (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Clinical Manifestations and Management of Androctonus bicolor Envenomation in a Dog: A Previously Undescribed Clinical Case

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Guest editorial: celebrating the 70th birthday of Hisham K. El-Hennawy – Egypt’s arachnologist

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Structural determinants of the scorpion venom peptide Uy234 reveal a membrane-disruptive mechanism in bacterial ESKAPE pathogens

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A reassessment of “Tityus” tenuimanus Banks, 1910, as a misidentified Leiurus sp. (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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The genus Nebo Simon, 1878 (Scorpiones: Diplocentridae) in Oman

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A New Species of Scorpio from Saudi Arabia (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)

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Comparative characterization of two scorpion toxins, BlTx1 and BlTx2, identifies BlTx2 as a Kv4.1-selective peptide

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Heavy metal predators: diverse elemental enrichment across the weapons of scorpions

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