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Species Loxosceles devia - Texas Recluse


The spider genus Loxosceles in North America, Central America, and the West Indies
By W. J. Gertsch & F. Ennik
American Museum of Natural History, Vol 175 (3): 265-360, 1983

Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships ...
By Dimitrov, D., Benavides Silva, L. R., Arnedo, M. A., Giribet, G., Griswold, C. E., Scharff, N. & Hormiga
Cladistics 33(3): 221-250 & Suppl., 2017
Full title: Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family-rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea)
Full text PDF available through the World Spider Catalog

Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha
By Pekka Lehtinen
Annales Zoologici Fennici 4: 199-468, 1967

Total evidence analysis of the phylogenetic relationships of Lycosoidea spiders (Araneae, Entelegynae)
By Polotow, Carmichael, & Griswold
Invertebrate Systematics 29: 124-163, 2015
Full text: http://www.publish.csiro.au/paper/IS14041.htm

Also available for download from the WSC: http://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/13115

The natural history and taxonomy of Cicurina bryantae Exline (Araneae, Agelenidae).
By Bennett, R. G.
Journal of Arachnology , 1985
Bennett, R. G. 1985 . The natural history and taxonomy of Cicurina bryantae Exline (Araneae, Agelenidae). Journal of Arachnology, 13:87-96.

The Spiders of Texas. I
By W.J. Gertsch and S. Mulaik
Bulletin of The American Museum of Natural History, Volume 78, Article 6, pp. 307-340, 1940

Spiders of the Chihuahuan Desert of Southern New Mexico and Western Texas
By David B. Richman, Sandra L. Brantley, David H-C. Hu, and Mary E. A. Whitehouse
Southwestern Association of Naturalists, 2011
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/232672909_Spiders_of_the_Chihuahuan_Desert_of_Southern_New_Mexico_and_Western_Texas

Spiders of Connecticut
By Kaston, B. J.
Bulletin of the Connecticut State Geological and Natural History Survey 70: 1-874, 1948
https://wsc.nmbe.ch/reference/2887