Publications & Websites
Alderweireldt, M. 1991. A revision of the African representatives of the wolf spider genus Evippa Simon, 1882 (Araneae, Lycosidae) with notes on allied species and genera. Jour. Nat. Hist. 25: 359-381.
Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R.. Order Araneae, Family Lycosidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 6.
Bjørn, P.P. 1997. A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 199-239.
BugGuide: http://bugguide.net. Hosted by University of Iowa.
Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. & van Harten, A. 2001. Description of some interesting, new or little known Pholcidae (Araneae) from Yemen. In: Prakash, I. (ed.) Ecology of Desert Environments. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India, pp. 193-207.
Desouky, M.M.A. & El-Hennawy, H.K. 2012. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of Exemplars of Four Spider Families from Ha'il Region, Northern Saudi Arabia and a Preliminary List of Spiders of Ha'il. Egyptian Acad. J. Biolog. Sci. 4(1): 87-102.
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. & van Harten, A. 2007. Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia 23: 169-188.
El-Hennawy, H.K. 2014. Preliminary list of spiders and other arachnids of Saudi Arabia (Except ticks and mites). Serket 14.1:22-58.
Feulner, G.R. 2006. Rainfall and climate records from Sharjah Airport: Historical data for the study of recent climatic periodicity in the U.A.E. Tribulus 16.1: 3-9. Online at: http://www.enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V16N1/TribulusV16N1.pdf
Feulner, G.R. 2011. The Flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal – the Mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: An Annotated Checklist and Selected Observations. Tribulus 19: 4-153.
Feulner, G.R. 2014a. Not Your Grandmother's Daddy Long-Legs. Gazelle 29.1: 4.
Feulner, G.R. 2014b. Giant Crab Spider. Gazelle 29.1: 5.
Feulner, G.R. 2014c. Ahh! It's Another Giant Crab Spider! Gazelle 29.2: 3.
Feulner, G.R. & Roobas, B. 2014. Redback Spiders. Gazelle 29.9: 4.
Framenau, V.W. & Scharff, N. 2008. The orb-weaving spider genus Larinia in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 66: 227-250.
Franzini, P. Z. N., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Yessoufou, K. & Van der Bank, F. H. 2013. Combined analyses of genetic and morphological data indicate more than one species of Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae) in South Africa. International Journal of Modern Biological Research 1: 21-34.
Gray, M. 2014 Online. Garden Orb Weaving Spiders. http://australianmuseum.net.au/garden-orb-weaving-spiders. [Accessed: 15 September 2015]
Hillyard, P. 2006. Spiders. Collins Gem series, Harper Collins. 254 pp.
Hillyard, P. 2007. The Private Life of Spiders. New Holland. 160 pp.
Huber, B.A. 2011. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zool. Monographien 58: 1-510.
Huber, B.A. & Eberhard, W.G. 1997. Courtship, copul
Huber, B.A. & Warui, C.M. 2012. East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 29: 1-44. Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.29
Jäger, P. 2000. The huntsman spider genus Cebrennus: four new species and a preliminary key to known species (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae). Revue Arachnologique 13(12): 163-186.
Jäger, P. 2012. A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beitr. Araneol. 7:272-331.
Jäger, P. 2014. Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species. Zootaxa 3790 (2): 319-356. ISSN 1175-5334. Online at: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BDA1931C-FEDB-4142-8A63-2765593621A9. [Accessed: 29 December 2014] http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.4.
Jäger, P. & Gromov, A.V. 2011. First records of Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959 from Morocco, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15.6: 188-192.
Jäger, P. & Praxaysombath, B. 2009. Spiders from Laos: new species and new records (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 58: 27-51.
Jocqué, R. 2011. Order Araneae, family Zodariidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 4: 15-22.
Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. 336 pp.
Jones, D. 1983. A Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Hamlyn Publishing Group, London. 320 pp.
Kraus, O. & Kraus, M. 1989. The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origin of social living. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 151-254.
Larsen, T.B. 1984. The zoogeographical composition and distribution of the Arabian butterflies (Lepidoptera; Rhopalocera). Jour. Biogeography 11:119-158.
Levi, H.W. & Levi, L.R. 1990. Spiders and Their Kin. Golden Guide series (H.S. Zim, ed.), Golden Books. 160 pp. [This remains one of the best and most accessible single references for spider identification by non-specialists. Its clarity, taxonomic organization and wealth of illustrations are sufficient to outweigh its age and a certain bias in favor of North American examples.]
Levin, D. Online. Aramis d'Erble. http://www.pikore.com/aramisderble. [Accessed: 11 September 2015]
Levy, G. 1996. The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122.
Levy, G. 1997. Twelve Genera of Orb-Weaver Spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365.
Levy, G. 1999. The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64.
Levy, G. & Amitai, P. 1982. The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30.
Logunov, D.V. 2011. Notes on the Philodromidae (Araneae) of the United Arab Emirates. Proc. Zool. Institute RAS 315(4): 441-451.
Logunov, D.V.2020, On three species of Hogna Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the Near East and Central Asia kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/ArthropodaSelecta/29/29_3_349_360_Logunov_for_Inet.pdf
Loven, N. Araneus angulatus. Nick's Spiders of Britain and Europe. <http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspiders/araneusangulatus.htm> [Accessed: 21 March 2015]
Knoflach, B. & van Harten, A. 2002. The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361.
Marusik, Y. M. & Fet, V. 2009. A survey of East Palaerctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with description of three new genera. ZooKeys 16: 75-114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.229. http://www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys.
Marusik, Y. M., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Koponen, S. 2011. A survey of the east Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 9. Genus Xerolycosa Dahl, 1908 (Evippinae).
ZooKeys 119: 11-27. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.119.1706. Versioned wiki page: 2011-07-18, version 12964, http://species-id.net/w/index.php?title=Xerolycosa&oldid=12964
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. 2015a. The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516: 123-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.10146
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. 2015b. Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24.4: 429–435.
Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A. & Mirshamsi, O. 2014. Three new species of mygalomorph and filistatid spiders from Iran (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Nemesiidae and Filistatidae). ZooKeys 463: 1-10. doi:10.3897/zookeys.463.8692
Marusik, Y. M. & Zonstein, S. L. 2014. A synopsis of Middle East Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae), with description of new species from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 199-205.
Melic, A. 1995. La familia Eresidae (Arachnida; Araneae) en Aragon. Notes arachnológicas aragonesas, 4. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 11: 7-12.
Metzner, H. 2015. Worldwide Database of Jumping Spiders (Arachnida; Araneae: Salticidae). Online at: http://www.jumping-spiders.com.
Miller, J. A., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N., Řezáč, M., Szüts, T. & Marhabaie, M. 2012. The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1-144.
Moradmand, M. 2013. The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): Systematics and zoogeography with revision of African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675(1): 1-108. ISSN 1175-5334. Online at: <http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3675.1.1>. [Accessed: 26 October 2014] doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3675.1.1.
Moradmand, M. & Jäger, P. 2012. Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46(39-40): 2439-2496.
Moradmand, M., Kakhki, O.M., & Hula, V. 2015. New records of the huntsman spider genus Olios (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East 61.1: 76-80.
Natural History Museum. Nature Online: Insects and Spiders. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/false-widow/false-widow-species/false-widow-nobilis/index.html. [Accessed: January 2015]
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A. & Kropf C. Araneae: Spiders of Europe. http://www.araneae.unibe.ch.
Nieuwenhuys, E. 2015. Spiders of Australia. http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/Spidaus.html.
Oger, P. Online. Les Araignées de Belgique et de France. http://arachno.piwigo.com.
Petot, D. Online. Balades chez les Araignees: Les Araignees. http://dipode-vie.net/Arachnides/Theridiidae/Steatoda/nobilis.html [Accessed: January 2015]
Phuket Nature Tours.
http://www.phuketnaturetours.com/Pages/iframephotos.php?level=tribe&choice=85370200060 [Accessed: 17 June 2015]
Planas, E., Fernández-Montraveta, C. & Ribera, C. 2013. Molecular systematics of the wolf spider genus Lycosa (Araneae: Lycosidae) in the western Mediterranean basin. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 67: 414-428.
Preston-Mafham, K. 1988. Spiders. Apple Press, London. 80 pp.
Preston-Mafham, R. & Preston-Mafham, K. 1984. Spiders of the World. Blandford Press, Poole, Dorset. 191 pp.
Rheims, C.A., Brescovit, A.D. & van Harten, A. 2006. The genus Scytodes Latreille, 1804 (Araneae: Scytodidae) in Yemen, with descriptions of three new species. Fauna of Arabia 21: 159-166.
Roberts, H.G.B. Online. Wildlife UAE. Photos by Huw Roberts. <http://www.pbase.com/wildlifeuae/arachnida>
Roberts, M.J. 1995. Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. Collins Field Guide, Harper Collins.
Saaristo, M. I. 2010. Araneae. In: Gerlach, J. & Y. Marusik (eds.) Arachnida and Myriapoda of the Seychelles Islands. Siri Scientific Press, Manchester UK, pp. 8-306.
Sebastian, P.A. & Peter, K.V. (eds.) 2009. Spiders of India. Universities Press (India). 810 pp.
Tanasevitch, A.V.. 2010. Order Araneae, family Linyphiidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 3: 15-26.
The Plant Observatory: Nature Walk Series: Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, 9 April 2011.
http://www.natureloveyou.sg/Plant%20Story/Nature%20Walk_BTNR_0211.html [Accessed: 17 June 2015]
Trotta, A. 2005. Introduzione al ragni italiani (Arachnida Araneae). Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana, Genova 83: 3-178.
van Andel, P. 2014. First distribution record of a tarantula spider (Araneae, Theraphosidae) found in the United Arab Emirates. Tribulus 22: 4-8.
van Harten, A. 2008. Collecting methods and localities. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 1: 14-32.
Venkataraman, M. 2010. Indian Insects & Arachnids. Simova, Bangalore. 566 pp.
Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A. 2010. Order Araneae, Family Salticidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 3: 27-69.
Wesolowska, W. & van Harten, A. 2011. Order Araneae, Family Salticidae: Additions and the description of a new species. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 4: 23-28.
West, R.C., Nunn, S. & Guadanucci, J.P.L. (in prep.) Review of Arabian Ischnocolinae (Araneae: Theraphosidae), with description of a new Ischnocolus species.
Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki.
Tan, J. Wildlife of Malaysia: Spiders – An Introduction http://wildlifemalaysia.com/spiders-an-introduction/. [Accessed: 17 June 2015]
Thaler-Knoflach, B. & El-Hennawy, H.K. 2012. Theridion incanescens Simon, 1890 and Theridion jordanense Levy & Amitai, 1982 new to the fauna of Egypt (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 13,1/2: 91-98.
Whyte, R. & Anderson, G. http://www.arachne.org.au (working draft of A Field Guide to the Spiders of Australia, in prep., CSIRO Publishing) [Accessed: March 2015]
World Spider Catalog 2015. World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch, version 16.5.
Zamani, A. 2014. The spitting spider genus Scytodes (Araneae: Scytodidae) in Iran. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 47: 41-44. doi:10.5431/aramit4706.
Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Marusik, Y. M. & Moradmand, M. 2015. The Checklist of the Spiders of Iran. Version 2015. Online at: <http://www.spiders.ir>
Zamani, A., Mirshamsi, O., Savoji, A.. & Shahi, M. 2014. Contribution to the distribution of spiders with significant medical importance (Araneae: Loxosceles and Latrodectus) in Iran, with a new record for the country. Iranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics 10.1: 57-66.
Alderweireldt, M. & Jocqué, R.. Order Araneae, Family Lycosidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 6.
Bjørn, P.P. 1997. A taxonomic revision of the African part of the orb-weaving genus Argiope (Araneae: Araneidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 28: 199-239.
BugGuide: http://bugguide.net. Hosted by University of Iowa.
Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. & van Harten, A. 2001. Description of some interesting, new or little known Pholcidae (Araneae) from Yemen. In: Prakash, I. (ed.) Ecology of Desert Environments. Scientific Publishers, Jodhpur, India, pp. 193-207.
Desouky, M.M.A. & El-Hennawy, H.K. 2012. Molecular Phylogenetic Relationships of Exemplars of Four Spider Families from Ha'il Region, Northern Saudi Arabia and a Preliminary List of Spiders of Ha'il. Egyptian Acad. J. Biolog. Sci. 4(1): 87-102.
Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. & van Harten, A. 2007. Crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae) from mainland Yemen and the Socotra Archipelago: Part 1. The genus Thomisus Walckenaer, 1805. Fauna of Arabia 23: 169-188.
El-Hennawy, H.K. 2014. Preliminary list of spiders and other arachnids of Saudi Arabia (Except ticks and mites). Serket 14.1:22-58.
Feulner, G.R. 2006. Rainfall and climate records from Sharjah Airport: Historical data for the study of recent climatic periodicity in the U.A.E. Tribulus 16.1: 3-9. Online at: http://www.enhg.org/Portals/1/trib/V16N1/TribulusV16N1.pdf
Feulner, G.R. 2011. The Flora of the Ru'us al-Jibal – the Mountains of the Musandam Peninsula: An Annotated Checklist and Selected Observations. Tribulus 19: 4-153.
Feulner, G.R. 2014a. Not Your Grandmother's Daddy Long-Legs. Gazelle 29.1: 4.
Feulner, G.R. 2014b. Giant Crab Spider. Gazelle 29.1: 5.
Feulner, G.R. 2014c. Ahh! It's Another Giant Crab Spider! Gazelle 29.2: 3.
Feulner, G.R. & Roobas, B. 2014. Redback Spiders. Gazelle 29.9: 4.
Framenau, V.W. & Scharff, N. 2008. The orb-weaving spider genus Larinia in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 66: 227-250.
Franzini, P. Z. N., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Yessoufou, K. & Van der Bank, F. H. 2013. Combined analyses of genetic and morphological data indicate more than one species of Cyrtophora (Araneae: Araneidae) in South Africa. International Journal of Modern Biological Research 1: 21-34.
Gray, M. 2014 Online. Garden Orb Weaving Spiders. http://australianmuseum.net.au/garden-orb-weaving-spiders. [Accessed: 15 September 2015]
Hillyard, P. 2006. Spiders. Collins Gem series, Harper Collins. 254 pp.
Hillyard, P. 2007. The Private Life of Spiders. New Holland. 160 pp.
Huber, B.A. 2011. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner Zool. Monographien 58: 1-510.
Huber, B.A. & Eberhard, W.G. 1997. Courtship, copul
Huber, B.A. & Warui, C.M. 2012. East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 29: 1-44. Online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.29
Jäger, P. 2000. The huntsman spider genus Cebrennus: four new species and a preliminary key to known species (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae). Revue Arachnologique 13(12): 163-186.
Jäger, P. 2012. A review on the spider genus Argiope Audouin 1826 with special emphasis on broken emboli in female epigynes (Araneae: Araneidae: Argiopinae). Beitr. Araneol. 7:272-331.
Jäger, P. 2014. Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species. Zootaxa 3790 (2): 319-356. ISSN 1175-5334. Online at: http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:BDA1931C-FEDB-4142-8A63-2765593621A9. [Accessed: 29 December 2014] http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3790.2.4.
Jäger, P. & Gromov, A.V. 2011. First records of Latrodectus dahli Levi, 1959 from Morocco, Turkey, Turkmenistan and the United Arab Emirates. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 15.6: 188-192.
Jäger, P. & Praxaysombath, B. 2009. Spiders from Laos: new species and new records (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta Arachnologica, Tokyo 58: 27-51.
Jocqué, R. 2011. Order Araneae, family Zodariidae. In A. van Harten (ed.) Arthropod Fauna of the UAE, vol. 4: 15-22.
Jocqué, R. & Dippenaar-Schoeman, A.S. 2007. Spider Families of the World. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium. 336 pp.
Jones, D. 1983. A Guide to Spiders of Britain and Northern Europe. Hamlyn Publishing Group, London. 320 pp.
Kraus, O. & Kraus, M. 1989. The genus Stegodyphus (Arachnida, Araneae). Sibling species, species groups, and parallel origin of social living. Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg 30: 151-254.
Larsen, T.B. 1984. The zoogeographical composition and distribution of the Arabian butterflies (Lepidoptera; Rhopalocera). Jour. Biogeography 11:119-158.
Levi, H.W. & Levi, L.R. 1990. Spiders and Their Kin. Golden Guide series (H.S. Zim, ed.), Golden Books. 160 pp. [This remains one of the best and most accessible single references for spider identification by non-specialists. Its clarity, taxonomic organization and wealth of illustrations are sufficient to outweigh its age and a certain bias in favor of North American examples.]
Levin, D. Online. Aramis d'Erble. http://www.pikore.com/aramisderble. [Accessed: 11 September 2015]
Levy, G. 1996. The agelenid funnel-weaver family and the spider genus Cedicus in Israel (Araneae, Agelenidae and Cybaeidae). Zoologica Scripta 25: 85-122.
Levy, G. 1997. Twelve Genera of Orb-Weaver Spiders (Araneae, Araneidae) from Israel. Israel Journal of Zoology 43: 311-365.
Levy, G. 1999. The lynx and nursery-web spider families in Israel (Araneae, Oxyopidae and Pisauridae). Zoosystema 21: 29-64.
Levy, G. & Amitai, P. 1982. The cobweb spider genus Steatoda (Araneae, Theridiidae) of Israel and Sinai. Zoologica Scripta 11: 13-30.
Logunov, D.V. 2011. Notes on the Philodromidae (Araneae) of the United Arab Emirates. Proc. Zool. Institute RAS 315(4): 441-451.
Logunov, D.V.2020, On three species of Hogna Simon, 1885 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the Near East and Central Asia kmkjournals.com/upload/PDF/ArthropodaSelecta/29/29_3_349_360_Logunov_for_Inet.pdf
Loven, N. Araneus angulatus. Nick's Spiders of Britain and Europe. <http://www.nicksspiders.com/nicksspiders/araneusangulatus.htm> [Accessed: 21 March 2015]
Knoflach, B. & van Harten, A. 2002. The genus Latrodectus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from mainland Yemen, the Socotra Archipelago and adjacent countries. Fauna of Arabia 19: 321-361.
Marusik, Y. M. & Fet, V. 2009. A survey of East Palaerctic Hersiliola Thorell, 1870 (Araneae, Hersiliidae), with description of three new genera. ZooKeys 16: 75-114. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.16.229. http://www.pensoftonline.net/zookeys.
Marusik, Y. M., Kovblyuk, M. M. & Koponen, S. 2011. A survey of the east Palaearctic Lycosidae (Araneae). 9. Genus Xerolycosa Dahl, 1908 (Evippinae).
ZooKeys 119: 11-27. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.119.1706. Versioned wiki page: 2011-07-18, version 12964, http://species-id.net/w/index.php?title=Xerolycosa&oldid=12964
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. 2015a. The spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) in Iran. ZooKeys 516: 123-135. doi:10.3897/zookeys.516.10146
Marusik, Y. M. & Zamani, A. 2015b. Additional new species of Filistatidae (Aranei) from Iran. Arthropoda Selecta 24.4: 429–435.
Marusik, Y. M., Zamani, A. & Mirshamsi, O. 2014. Three new species of mygalomorph and filistatid spiders from Iran (Araneae, Cyrtaucheniidae, Nemesiidae and Filistatidae). ZooKeys 463: 1-10. doi:10.3897/zookeys.463.8692
Marusik, Y. M. & Zonstein, S. L. 2014. A synopsis of Middle East Filistata (Aranei: Filistatidae), with description of new species from Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 23(2): 199-205.
Melic, A. 1995. La familia Eresidae (Arachnida; Araneae) en Aragon. Notes arachnológicas aragonesas, 4. Boletín de la Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa 11: 7-12.
Metzner, H. 2015. Worldwide Database of Jumping Spiders (Arachnida; Araneae: Salticidae). Online at: http://www.jumping-spiders.com.
Miller, J. A., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N., Řezáč, M., Szüts, T. & Marhabaie, M. 2012. The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1-144.
Moradmand, M. 2013. The stone huntsman spider genus Eusparassus (Araneae: Sparassidae): Systematics and zoogeography with revision of African and Arabian species. Zootaxa 3675(1): 1-108. ISSN 1175-5334. Online at: <http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.3675.1.1>. [Accessed: 26 October 2014] doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3675.1.1.
Moradmand, M. & Jäger, P. 2012. Taxonomic revision of the huntsman spider genus Eusparassus Simon, 1903 (Araneae: Sparassidae) in Eurasia. Journal of Natural History 46(39-40): 2439-2496.
Moradmand, M., Kakhki, O.M., & Hula, V. 2015. New records of the huntsman spider genus Olios (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Zoology in the Middle East 61.1: 76-80.
Natural History Museum. Nature Online: Insects and Spiders. http://www.nhm.ac.uk/nature-online/life/insects-spiders/false-widow/false-widow-species/false-widow-nobilis/index.html. [Accessed: January 2015]
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Hänggi, A. & Kropf C. Araneae: Spiders of Europe. http://www.araneae.unibe.ch.
Nieuwenhuys, E. 2015. Spiders of Australia. http://ednieuw.home.xs4all.nl/australian/Spidaus.html.
Oger, P. Online. Les Araignées de Belgique et de France. http://arachno.piwigo.com.
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