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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...

Introducing the Asociación Ibérica de Aracnología (ASOCIACIÓN IBÉRICA DE ARACNOLOGÍA)

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The Clinical Phenotype of Green Pit Viper (Trimeresurus spp.) Envenomation: A Comprehensive Review

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Comparison of predictive models for estimating scorpion, snake, and spider envenomation under warming scenarios in São Paulo State, Brazil

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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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Triaenomeros versus Neopachyloides: major males of misplaced Ecuadorian Ampycidae exhibit unexpected strong armature (Opiliones, Grassatores, Gonyleptoidea)

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New Locality and Distributional Records of Three Spider Species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Chhattisgarh Region, India

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

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The rise and diversification of spidroins in the deep-time evolution of spiders

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AraNet: A Two-Stage Convolutional Neural Network for Spider Species Classification

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

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From Scorpion Venom to Infection Research: The Promise of Opis16a (Blog Entry)

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Spitting spiders (Araneae: Scytodidae) from Cretaceous Kachin amber reveal deep divergence times and Burma Terrane-linked biogeography

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A new species of Badumna Thorell, 1890 from Xizang, China (Araneae: Desidae)

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Long-Term Kidney Outcomes Following Snake Envenomation: The Role of Snakebite-Related Acute Kidney Injury in a Nationwide Korean Cohort

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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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