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On some new and poorly-known Chrysillini from arid western South Africa (Araneae, Salticidae)

A new species of Harmonicon F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896, from central-west Brazil and redescription of H. rufescens F. O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1896 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae)

Glossiness disrupts predator localisation of moving prey

Shift in diet composition of a riparian predator along a stream pollution gradient

A histopathological guide for the social spider Stegodyphus dumicola

Molecular phylogenetics of nursery web spiders (Araneae: Pisauridae)

Reassessing the evolutionary relationships of tropical wandering spiders using phylogenomics: A UCE-based phylogeny of Ctenidae (Araneae) with the discovery of a new lycosoid family

TARANTULAS (ARANEAE: THERAPHOSIDAE) REPORTED FROM LORETO DEPARTMENT, PERU

Review of the wolf spider genus Halocosa Azarkina & Trilikauskas, 2019 from China (Araneae, Lycosidae)

ScorpDb: A Novel Open-Access Database for Integrative Scorpion Toxinology

American Arachnological Society Annual Meeting Golden, Colorado USA, 15-18 June 2025

Allen R. Brady February 7, 1933 - November 7, 2024 Holland, MI (Life Story / Obituary)

New mid-Cretaceous macrothelids showing a similar living mode to extant Macrothelidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae)

Small Brains: Body Shape Constrains Tissue Allocation to the Central Nervous System in Ant-Mimicking Spiders

A new species of the lyrate curtain-web spider genus Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850 from South Brazil and the hitherto unknown female of T. excursora (Araneae: Dipluridae)

On current distribution of Androctonus aeneas Koch, 1839 in Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

Contributions to the scorpion fauna of Iran. Part III. Records of genus Orthochirus Karsch, 1891 (Arachnida: Scorpiones: Buthidae)

First record of Scorpio jordanensis from Syria (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)

Description of a neotype of Scorpio palmatus (Ehrenberg, 1828) (Scorpiones: Scorpionidae)

A new contribution to the genus Opisthacanthus Peters, 1861 and in particular to the African species of the subgenus Nepabellus Francke, 1974 with the description of a new species from Mozambique (Scorpiones: Hormuridae)

Abundance, coexistence and behavioural interactions among juveniles of two sympatric tarantulas from Argentina

Revisiting the scorpion central nervous system using microCT