The public perception of spiders and scorpions is skewed towards the potential harm they
can inflict in humans, despite recent scientific evidence that arachnid venom components …

South America is the fourth largest continent on the planet; its birds, mammals, and
amphibian's biodiversity is relatively well known, but no outright assessment of the continent …

Ninetinae are a group of poorly known spiders that do not fit the image of 'daddy long-legs
spiders'(Pholcidae), the family to which they belong. They are mostly short-legged, tiny and …

A new species of the spider genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832, Loxosceles
tenochtitlan Valdez-Mondragón & Navarro-Rodríguez, sp. nov., is described based on adult …

Event-based biogeographic methods, such as dispersal-extinction-cladogenesis, have
become increasingly popular for attempting to reconstruct the biogeographic history of …

Phylogenetic niche conservatism (PNC) shapes the distribution of organisms by
constraining lineages to particular climatic conditions. Conversely, if areas with similar …

Spiders' spinning skills have fascinated mankind since ancient times. These animals owe
this ability to unique appendages named spinnerets. These structures are connected to silk …

A new species of the spider genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe, 1832,
Loxoscelesmalintzisp. n., is described from the states of Puebla, Morelos and Guerrero, in …

In this paper the present state of knowledge of the genus Loxosceles Heineken & Lowe,
1832 from the Afrotropical region is discussed. The distribution of nine of the 16 described …

Recluse or violin spiders in the genus Loxosceles (Scytodoidea: Sicariidae) are a diverse
group (~ 140 extant species) including medically important species and distributed mainly in …