Projects
BIO-GEEC: The German-Ecuadorian Consortium for Biodiversity (Stage 1)
Management: Dr. Danilo Harms
Publications
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2025/12
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
2024/06
Path for recovery: an ecological overview of the Jambato Harlequin Toad (Bufonidae: Atelopus ignescens) in its last known locality, Angamarca Valley, Ecuador
PeerJ, 12
2024/00
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
2024/04
Description of a new Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 species (Araneae, Theraphosidae, Psalmopoeinae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 5437
2024/10
Two new species of the spider genus Loxosceles (Araneae, Sicariidae) from the Ecuadorian Andes
Evolutionary Systematics, 8
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
2024/10
Seven new species of the enigmatic spider genus Paratropis Simon, 1889 (Mygalomorphae, Paratropididae) from Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 5519
2024/03
Four new species of Utivarachna Kishida, 1940 (Araneae: Trachelidae) from Sumatra
Zootaxa, 5, 5418
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
2023/11
Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae)
909
2023/02
Humpback spiders from Ecuador: relationships, prosoma ‘inflation’ and genital asymmetry (Araneae: Pholcidae: Mecolaesthus)
2, 37
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
2023/12
Description of eleven new species in the Scytodoidea group (Araneae: Drymusidae and Scytodidae) from mainland Ecuador
3, 51
2023/06
Review of the Spider Genus Linothele (Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae) from Ecuador—An Exceptional Case of Speciation in the Andes
3, 1
2022/02
Araneae (spiders) of South America: a synopsis of current knowledge
1, 50
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
2021/04
The endless search for type specimens; illustrations of eleven spider (Araneae, Mygalomorphae) species described by Eugène Simon
2, 4951
2021/05
An annotated type catalogue of the centipedes (Myriapoda: Chilopoda) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
1, 4977
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
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
2020/04
Ground Spider Communities Under Tropical Land‐Use Change
2, 101
2020/02
Functional losses in ground spider communities due to habitat structure degradation under tropical land‐use change
3, 101
2020/09
Assessing the effects of oil palm replanting on arthropod biodiversity
1, 58
2020/01
Old and new challenges in taxonomy: what are taxonomists up against?
1, 1
2020/07
Caves as a key habitat for rare and endemic species of the west coast of North America: a taxonomic revision of the spider genus Oaphantes (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
2, 4819
2020/00
Heteroonops (Araneae, Oonopidae) spiders from Hispaniola: the discovery of ten new species
ZooKeys, 964
2020/11
On the putatively incorrect identification and" redescription" of Paratropis elicioi Dupérré 2015 (Paratropididae, Araneae) with the description of two new sympatric species …
Zootaxa, 3, 4869
2020/04
Megadiverse Ecuador: A review of Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) of Ecuador, with the description of twenty-one new kleptoparasitic spider species.
Zootaxa, 1, 4761
2019/01
How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed “pragmatic classification” of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)
3, 4545
2019/12
Note on the replacement name for the preoccupied genus Linga Lavery & Snazell, 2013 and the synonymy of the type species Linga orueta Lavery & Snazell, 2013 (Araneae: Linyphiidae)
3, 18
2019/11
An annotated catalogue of the scorpion types (Arachnida, Scorpiones) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg. Part I: Parvorder Iurida Soleglad & Fet, 2003
2, 3
2019/01
Description of four new species of armoured spiders (Araneae, Tetrablemmidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia
820
2019/00
Description of a new species of Althepus (Araneae: Ochyroceratidae) from Maharashtra State, India
Munis Entomology and Zoology, 1, 14
2019/01
How not to delimit taxa: a critique on a recently proposed “pragmatic classification” of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae)
Zootaxa, 3, 4545
2018/03
Raising the dead: rediscovery and redescription of some lost spider types (Araneae) described by Eugène Simon
Evolutionary Systematics, 2
2018/08
Further discoveries on the minuscule spiders from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of seven new species of Anapis (Araneae: Anapidae).
Zootaxa, 3, 4459
2018/01
An annotated type catalogue of the camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) held in the Zoological Museum Hamburg
Zootaxa, 1, 4375
2018/00
Description of three new species of Aposphragisma Thoma, 2014 (Araneae: Oonopidae) from Sumatra, Indonesia
ZooKeys, 797
2017/12
The Australian Lynx Spiders (Araneae, Oxyopidae, Oxyopes) of the Godeffroy Collection, including the description of a new species
Evolutionary Systematics, 1
2017/12
The goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae) of the OTONGA Nature Reserve in Ecuador, with the description of seven new species
Evolutionary Systematics, 1
2017/11
On some minuscule spiders (Araneae: Theridiosomatidae, Symphytognathidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador with the description of ten new species
Zootaxa, 3, 4341
2016/12
Overview of the Anyphaenids (Araneae, Anyphaeninae, Anyphaenidae) spider fauna from the Chocó forest of Ecuador, with the description of thirteen new species
European Journal of Taxonomy, 255
2015/09
Discovery of the first telemid spider (Araneae, Telemidae) from South America, and the first member of the family bearing a stridulatory organ
Zootaxa, 1, 4020
2015/06
Descriptions of four kleptoparasitic spiders of the genus Mysmenopsis (Araneae, Mysmenidae) and their potential host spider species in the genus Linothele (Araneae, Dipluridae …
Zootaxa, 3, 3972
2015/10
Description of a new genus and thirteen new species of Ctenidae (Araneae, Ctenidae) from the Chocó region of Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 4028
2015/11
Description of the first visually cryptic species of Paratropis (Araneae: Paratropididae) from Ecuador
The Journal of Arachnology, 3, 43
2015/05
Descriptions of twelve new species of ochyroceratids (Araneae, Ochyroceratidae) from mainland Ecuador
Zootaxa, 4, 3956
2014/03
Demystifying three species of Ctenidae (Arachnida: Araneae) described by Embrik Strand. Part I, Ecuador
Zootaxa, 1, 3784
2014/07
Three new species of Caponiid spiders from Ecuador (Araneae, Caponiidae)
Zootaxa, 4, 3838
2013/01
The Goblin Spider Genera Stenoonops and Longoonops (Araneae: Oonopidae) in Cuba and the Virgin Islands
Entomologica Americana, 1, 118
2013/01
Taxonomic revision of the spider genera Agyneta and Tennesseellum (Araneae, Linyphiidae) of North America north of Mexico with a study of the embolic division within …
Zootaxa, 3674
2013/03
Periegopidae (Arachnida: Araneae)
Fauna of New Zealand, 70
2013/02
The goblin spider genera Prodysderina, aschnaoonops, and Bidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 373, 2013
2012/01
The goblin spider genus Costarina (Araneae, Oonopidae), part 1
American Museum Novitates, 3730, 2012
2012/02
Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera
American Museum Novitates, 3736, 2012
2012/07
The Caribbean goblin spider genera Scaphioides and Hortoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae)
American Museum Novitates, 3751, 2012
2012/09
Got males?: The enigmatic goblin spider genus Triaeris (Araneae, Oonopidae)
American Museum Novitates, 3756, 2012
2011/12
The Andean goblin spiders of the new genera Paradysderina and Semidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 364, 2011
2011/04
The goblin spider genus Brignolia (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 349, 2011
2011/01
Reuniting males and females: redescriptions of Nuisiana arboris (Marples 1959) and Cambridgea reinga Forster & Wilton 1973 (Araneae: Desidae, Stiphidiidae)
Zootaxa, 1, 2739
2011/12
Nesticus eremita (Araneae: Nesticidae): redescription of a potentially invasive European spider found in New Zealand
The Journal of Arachnology, 3, 39
2011/04
The haplogyne spider genus Nopsides (Araneae, Caponiidae), with notes on Amrishoonops
American Museum Novitates, 3708, 2011
2011/04
The Andean goblin spiders of the new genus Scaphidysderina (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on Dysderina
American Museum Novitates, 3712, 2011
2010/10
Spiders of New Zealand: annotated family key and species list.
2010/05
Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Canada and Alaska
Zootaxa, 1, 2461
2010/12
The Andean goblin spiders of the new genera Niarchos and Scaphios (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 345, 2010
2010/02
Systematics of the new Australasian orb-weaving spider genus Backobourkia (Araneae: Araneidae: Araneinae)
Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 68
2010/12
A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from the West Indies
American Museum Novitates, 3705, 2010
2010/03
The goblin spider genus Scaphiella (Araneae, Oonopidae)
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 332, 2010
2010/07
Pisauridae (Arachnida: Araneae)
Fauna of New Zealand, 64
2010/07
The goblin spider genera Stenoonops and Australoonops (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on related taxa
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 340, 2010
2009/02
A first step towards the revision of Cicurina: redescription of type specimens of 60 troglobitic species of the subgenus Cicurella (Araneae: Dictynidae), and a first …
Zootaxa, 1, 2002
2009/07
The goblin spider genera opopaea and Epectris (Araneae, Oonopidae) in the New World
American Museum Novitates, 3649, 2009
2009/00
A new species of troglobitic Rhadine (Coleoptera: Carabidae) from Hays County, Texas
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2009/04
JourNAl of CAVe ANd KArSt StudIeS
Journal of Cave and Karst Studies, 1, 71
2009/00
A new troglophilic Agyneta from Colorado, the first description of the female of Agyneta llanoensis from Texas caves, and a first classification of North American Linyphiidae …
Texas Memorial Museum Speleological Monographs, 7
2009/08
A new genus of the spider family Caponiidae (Araneae, Haplogynae) from Iran
American Museum Novitates, 3656, 2009
2008/09
Nomina dubia and faunistic issues with New Zealand spiders (Araneae)
Insecta Mundi
2008/05
The fundamental importance of taxonomy in conservation biology: the case of the eyeless Cicurina bandida (Araneae: Dictynidae) of central Texas, including new synonyms and the …
Invertebrate Systematics, 2, 22