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2025/11
New species of Metagonia Simon with directionally asymmetric male and female genitalia (Araneae, Pholcidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 1026
2025/01
Like grains of sand: Ninetis spiders on the Arabian Peninsula (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 5563
2024/10
Diamonds in the rough: Ibotyporanga (Araneae, Pholcidae) spiders in semi-arid Neotropical environments
European Journal of Taxonomy, 963
2024/10
Progress or burden? Formal description of every apparently new species available in collections is neither necessary nor useful
ZooKeys, 1214
2024/09
Old World Micropholcus spiders, with first records of acrocerid parasitoids in Pholcidae (Araneae)
ZooKeys, 1213
2024/03
Notes on Chisosa (Araneae, Pholcidae), with the description of a new species from Mexico
Zootaxa, 2, 5419
2024/03
Thriving in dry conditions: on the Neotropical spider genus Galapa (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 3, 5419
2024/02
Castaways: the Leeward Antilles endemic spider genus Papiamenta (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Invertebrate Systematics, 2, 38
2023/11
Do pholcid spiders balloon?
Arachnology, 6, 19
2018/09
Sexual Selection and Static Allometry: The Importance of Function
The Quarterly Review of Biology, 3, 93
2018/06
Cave-dwelling pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): a review
Subterranean Biology, 26
2014/09
On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae : Pholcidae)
Invertebrate Systematics, 4, 28
2014/08
Progress and prospects in taxonomy: what is our goal and are we ever going to reach it?
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 2, 42
2014/08
Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae
Zootaxa, 3, 3847
2014/06
Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Zoologischer Anzeiger, 5, 253
2013/09
Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 3713
2012/11
East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 29
2012/09
Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 3461
2011/02
Diversity and endemism of pholcid spiders in Brazil's Atlantic Forest, with descriptions of four new species of the Atlantic Forest endemic genusTupigea(Araneae: Pholcidae)
Journal of natural history, 5-6, 45
2009/09
Life on leaves: leaf-dwelling pholcids of Guinea, with emphasis onCrossopriza cylindrogasterSimon, a spider with inverted resting position, pseudo-eyes, lampshade web, and tetrahedral egg-sac (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Journal of natural history, 39-40, 43
2009/01
Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae)
Zootaxa, 1, 1970
2008/08
Comb-hairs on the fourth tarsi in pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae)
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 2, 36
2008/04
The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae)
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 1, 36
2007/11
Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 1635
2007/11
The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 1646
2007/10
Spermathecal morphology and sperm dynamics in the female Schizocosa malitiosa (Araneae: Lycosidae)
European Journal of Entomology, 4, 104
2006/06
Cryptic female exaggeration: The asymmetric female internal genitalia ofKaliana yuruani (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Journal of morphology, 6, 267
2006/02
Spermiogenesis in Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911) (Pholcidae, Araneae): Evidence for considerable within-family variation in sperm structure and development
Zoology, 1, 109
2005/12
ALLOMETRY OF GENITALIA AND FIGHTING STRUCTURES IN LINYPHIA TRIANGULARIS (ARANEAE, LINYPHIIDAE)
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 3, 33
2005/12
Phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): Combined analysis using morphology and molecules
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 3, 37
2005/08
EVIDENCE FOR DIRECTIONAL SELECTION ON MALE ABDOMEN SIZE IN MECOLAESTHUS LONGISSIMUS SIMON (ARANEAE, PHOLCIDAE)
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 2, 33
2005/06
Speciation without changes in genital shape: A case study on Brazilian pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Zoologischer Anzeiger, 4, 243
2005/01
Two new species of litter‐dwelling Metagonia spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) document both rapid and slow genital evolution
Acta Zoologica/Acta zoologica, 1, 86
2005/01
Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider genus Carapoia González-Sponga (Araneae : Pholcidae), with descriptions of new species from Brazil's Atlantic forest
Invertebrate Systematics, 6, 19
2004/08
COLOR DIMORPHISM IN ADULTS AND JUVENILES OF BUITINGA SAFURA (ARANEAE, PHOLCIDAE)
The journal of arachnology/The Journal of arachnology, 2, 32
2004/03
Evidence for functional segregation in the directionally asymmetric male genitalia of the spider Metagonia mariguitarensis (González‐Sponga) (Pholcidae: Araneae)
Journal of zoology, 3, 262
2003/12
Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 4, 139
2003/06
On the terminology of polytomies
Cladistics, 3, 19
2003/04
High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz)
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 4, 137
2003/02
Cladistic analysis of Malagasy pholcid spiders reveals generic level endemism: Revision of Zatavua n. gen. and Paramicromerys Millot (Pholcidae, Araneae)
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 2, 137
2002/03
Ninetis russellsmithi n. sp., an unusual new pholcid spider species from Malawi (Araneae: Pholcidae)
Journal of Insect Science, 1, 2
1998/04
ONE SIZE FITS ALL? RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN THE SIZE AND DEGREE OF VARIATION IN GENITALIA AND OTHER BODY PARTS IN TWENTY SPECIES OF INSECTS AND SPIDERS
Evolution, 2, 52
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