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Alone no more — Integrative #taxonomy of New Zealand odd-clawed #spiders challenges the monotypy of #Pianoa and #Gradungula (#Araneae: #Gradungulidae)
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Frontiers | Dolomedes fishing spider biology: gaps and opportunities for future research

We love Dolomedes 🕷! So much so that a bunch of us wrote a review article about their biology, covering ecology, conservation, evolution & behaviour. Check out all things fishing spiders & see why we think they are so special
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Systematics and evolutionary history of raft and nursery‐web spiders (Araneae: Dolomedidae and Pisauridae) Pisauridae are a global and heterogeneous assemblage of spider genera with diverse morphologies and lifestyles. So far, the monophyly of Pisauridae and the inclusion of fishing spiders (Dolomedes) in...

Viva Dolomedidae!
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A redescription of the Pacific Bounty hunter, Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 and an attempt to reunite with its family The male of the Bounty Island endemic Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 is described for the first time and the female is redescribed. We attempted to place the monotypic genus Pacificana in an approp...

After 120 years, the Pacific Bounty hunter, Pacificana cockayni, has been reunited with its family
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Mating behaviour influences the direction and geographic extent of introgression in New Zealand fishing spiders (Dolomedes) Abstract. Introgression is a highly influential process in evolution, where genes flow between species that are not fully reproductively isolated. Studies

Examination of the barriers affecting introgression in two NZ fishing spiders finds that mating behaviour is potentially more important than environment:

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