Projects
Ecuadorian-German Integrative Biodiversity Research Centre (EGiB)
Management: Prof. Dr. Bernhard Hausdorf
BIO-GEEC: The German-Ecuadorian Consortium for Biodiversity (Stage 1)
Management: Dr. Danilo Harms
Publications
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2025/08
Revision of the Ecuadorian Microstigmatidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), with the description of six new species
European Journal of Taxonomy, 1007
2025/07
A web of canopy discoveries part I (Araneae: Araneidae). New astonishing species of orb-weaving spiders from Ecuador and the first country record of Pozonia Schenkel, 1953
Zootaxa, 4, 5660
2025/04
“Out of the blue”, a new species of the monotypic genus Kinku Simon, 1889
Zootaxa, 5636, 3
2025/01
The world’s most venomous spider is a species complex: systematics of the Sydney funnel-web spider (Atracidae: Atrax robustus)
BMC Ecology and Evolution, 1, 25
2025/01
Systematics of the colour-polymorphic spider genus Cybaeolus, with comments on the phylogeny of the family Hahniidae (Araneae)
Zoological journal of the Linnean Society
2024/12
Three new species of Melychiopharis (Araneae, Araneidae) from Ecuador and Peru
Zootaxa, 1, 5555
2024/11
A redescription of the Pacific Bounty hunter, Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 and an attempt to reunite with its family.
New Zealand Journal of Zoology
2024/10
Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes
Evolutionary Systematics, 8
2024/10
Seven new species of the enigmatic spider genus Paratropis Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae, Paratropididae) from Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 5519
2024/06
Path for recovery: an ecological overview of the Jambato Harlequin Toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus ignescens) in its last known locality, Angamarca Valley, Ecuador
PeerJ, 12
2024/04
Description of a new Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 species (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 5437
2024/03
Four new species of Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 (Araneae: Trachelidae) from Sumatra
Zootaxa, 5, 5418
2024/01
First record of the family Hahniidae in Ecuador with description of thirteen new species and three new genera (Araneae: Hahniidae)
Taxonomy, 1, 4
2024/00
A trait-based taxonomic data base for the order Schizomida (Arachnida) with descriptions of a new fossil species from Kachin amber and the female of Surazomus palenque …
bioRxiv
2023/12
Description of eleven new species in the Scytodoidea group (Araneae: Drymusidae and Scytodidae) from mainland Ecuador
3, 51
2023/11
Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae)
European Journal of Taxonomy, 909
2023/09
Discovery of a new eye pattern in Araneoid spiders, with the description of two new species of Testudinaria from the Ecuadorian Amazon (Araneae: Araneidae)
5, 59
2023/07
Review of the American genus Bolostromus Ausserer, 1875 with the description of fourteen new species (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae)
1, 5317
2023/06
Review of the Spider Genus Linothele (Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador—An Exceptional Case of Speciation in the Andes
3, 1
2023/02
Humpback spiders from Ecuador: relationships, prosoma ‘inflation’ and genital asymmetry (Araneae: Pholcidae: Mecolaesthus)
Invertebrate Systematics, 2, 37
2022/10
New light on some historical type specimens -in relation to the South American spider (Araneae) fauna-
1, 50
2022/08
Rainforest conversion to rubber and oil palm reduces abundance, biomass and diversity of canopy spiders
PeerJ, 10
2022/06
Riparian buffers made of mature oil palms have inconsistent impacts on oil palm ecosystems
Ecological applications, 4, 32
2022/02
Araneae (spiders) of South America: a synopsis of current knowledge
1, 50
2021/07
From the lowlands to the highlands of Ecuador, a study of the genus Masteria (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) with description of seven new species
4, 5005
2021/05
An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
1, 4977
2021/05
Myrmecotypus mazaxoides sp. nov. – a new ground-dwelling, carpenter ant-resembling sac spider species from the Bolivian orocline, with indirect evidence for species-specific mimicry (Araneae, Corinnidae, Castianeirinae)
1, 97
2021/04
The endless search for type specimens; illustrations of eleven spider (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) species described by Eugène Simon
2, 4951
2021/01
Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity
Journal of applied ecology, 1, 58