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A remarkable new species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892(Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Yunnan, China

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  A remarkable new species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892(Araneae: Theraphosidae) from Yunnan, China Abstract A new spider species of the genus Chilobrachys Karsch, 1892 of the family Theraphosidae Thorell, 1869is described from Yunnan, China: C. sherwoodae Lin & Li, sp. nov. based on both sexes. Photos and amorphological description of the new species are given. The type specimens are deposited in the Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IZCAS) in Beijing, China. Etymology:  The species is named after Miss Danni Sherwood, who kindly provided photographs of the types of other Indochina Chilobrachys, which enabled us to recognise the new species; noun (name) ingenitive case. Acknowledgements:  Ming Liang (China, Kunming) and Pengkai Ouyang (China, Kunming) helped in fieldwork. Danni Sherwood polished the English.

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

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A new species of the mygalomorph spider genus Euagrus Ausserer (Araneae: Euagridae) from central Mexico and new records of E. gus Coyle from Tlaxcala

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On the first Subandean species of Myrmecium Latreille, 1824 (Araneae, Corinnidae) from the Cordillera del Cóndor, Ecuador

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

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Ninetine spiders in Brazilian Caatinga and Cerrado: revision of Kambiwa and description of Sertana gen. nov. (Araneae, Pholcidae), with analyses of predicted range shifts due to climate change

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DNA barcoding of scorpions from Kosovo, with the first record of Alpiscorpius dinaricus (Di Caporiacco) (Scorpiones: Euscorpiidae)

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Five new species and one new record of armored spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Thailand

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On the validity of Glabropelmatidae Raven, 1985 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae): a replacement name for Melloinidae Perafán, Montes de Oca and Pérez-Miles, 2025

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Phylogeny and Taxonomy of Spider-Pathogenic Gibellula (Cordycipitaceae, Hypocreales) from the Lancang–Mekong Biodiversity Hotspot: Four New Species and Five New National Records

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Comparing Spider Sampling Methods in a Eucalypt Forest in Wet and Dry Conditions

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Inter-individual variability in equine antibody responses to African snake venoms follows heavy-tailed distributions with implications for antivenom production

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Elevated Temperatures Disrupt Wolbachia-Induced Feminisation and Reshape Microbial Community Dynamics Across Generations in a Spider Host

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What about male quality? A model to predict male investment in a single female

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Where We're Going, We Won't Need Eyes to See: Distributional Range Size Drivers of European Subterranean Spiders

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A new contribution to the study of subfamily Tridenchthoniinae Balzan, 1892 (Pseudoscorpiones: Chthoniidae) from the late Eocene Baltic amber with the description of Baltochthonius andrushchenkoi gen. et sp. nov. and Heterolophus eridanus sp. nov.

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

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Preliminary Insights into Geographic Variation in Venom Profiles and Functional Activities of Nigerian Snakes, Bitis arietans and Naja nigricollis

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