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Family Gnaphosidae - Ground Spiders

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae)

A revision of the spider genera Trachyzelotes and Urozelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

By Norman Platnick & John Murphy
American Museum Novitates 2792: 1-30, 1984

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 14 May, 2013 - 5:39am

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae)

A revision of the Holarctic spider genus Callilepis (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

By Norman Platnick
American Museum Novitates 2573:1-32, 1975

Free PDF available online from here: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/2760

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 16 July, 2011 - 7:23pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae)

Insects and Arachnids of Canada Part 19: The ground spiders of Canada and Alaska : Araneae: Gnaphosidae

By Norman Platnick & Charles Dondale
Research Branch, Agriculture Canada, Publ. 1875: 1-297, 1992

Available online as a free download here: http://www.esc-sec.ca/aafcmono.php

(The monographs are also now available as print-on-demand books at http://www.volumesdirect.com. All the titles can be found using a search for “Agriculture Canada” or by individual title.)

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 31 August, 2010 - 7:07pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae)

A revision of the spider genera Drassodes and Tivodrassus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America

By Norman Platnick & Mohammad Shadab
American Museum of Natural History, 1976

American Museum Novitates No. 2593

Includes species descriptions with genitalic diagrams and range maps for the seven described species of North American Drassodes. The genus Tivodrassus does not occur within Bug Guide's range, but this paper also includes the descriptions and diagrams for the four known species.

This paper is available online thru the AMNH Research Library: http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/2976/1/N2593.pdf

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 31 August, 2010 - 6:37pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Heser » Heser schmitzi

On the widespread species Zelotes schmitzi (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)

By Platnick and Murphy
Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 11 (3): 118-119., 1998

A full-text link is currently hosted here:

http://www.azoresbioportal.angra.uac.pt/files/publicacoes_Platnick1998_OnTheWidespreadSpeciesZelotesSchmitzi.pdf.

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 26 May, 2015 - 9:38am

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A revision of the American spiders of the genus Zelotes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)

By Platnick and Shadab
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 1983

Link here:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1035

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 15 May, 2015 - 5:39pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Drassyllus

A revision of the American spiders of the genus Drassyllus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae).

By Platnick and Shadab
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, vol. 173, 1982

Full text available for download here:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/1014

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Contributed by Ken Schneider on 24 May, 2015 - 5:18pm

Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Chelicerates (Chelicerata) » Arachnids (Arachnida) » Spiders (Araneae) » True Spiders (Araneomorphae) » Entelegynae » Ground Spiders (Gnaphosidae) » Scopoides

A revision of the spider genera Rachodrassus, Sosticus, and Scopodes (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) in North America

By Norman Platnick & Mohammad Shadab
American Museum Novitates 2594: 1-33, 1976

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Contributed by Mandy Howe on 16 June, 2016 - 10:07pm

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