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Species Amaurobius borealis


A revision of the Nearctic Amaurobiidae (Arachnida: Araneidae)
By Robin Leech
Memoirs of the Entomological Society of Canada 84: 1-82, 1972
You can find used print copies of this online occasionally, but there is also an electronic version out there (feel free to message me, or Dr. Leech himself, if you need it).

Combining genomic, phenotypic and sanger sequencing data to elucidate the phylogeny of the two-clawed spiders (Dionycha)
By Azevedo et al., 2022
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166(107327): 1-14, 2022
https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/16099

Systematics and evolution of ground spiders revisited (Araneae, Dionycha, Gnaphosidae). Cladistics
By Azevedo, G. H. F, Griswold, C. E. & Santos, A. J.
Cladistics 34(6): 579-626, 2018
https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/14218

Nearctic genera of the spider family Agelenidae (Arachnida, Araneida)
By Vincent Roth & Patricia Brame
American Museum Novitates 2505: 1-52, 1972
Full Text

I filed this book under Entelegynes because many of the species described in it are no longer part of the Agelenidae.

The morphology and phylogeny of dionychan spiders
By Ramírez, Martín J.
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2014
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/6537

A revision of the spider genus Zorocrates
By Platnick, Norman I.; Ubick, Darrell
American Museum Novitates, no. 3579, 2007

The spider subfamily Clubioninae of the United States, Canada and Alaska (Araneae: Clubionidae)
By Robert J. Edwards
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology Harvard 118: 365-436, 1958
Full Text at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia
By Levi, H. W
Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 149(1):1-75, 1980
The orb-weaver genus Mecynogea, the subfamily Metinae and the genera Pachygnatha, Glenognatha and Azilia of the subfamily Tetragnathinae north of Mexico

Full Text (PDF)