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Species Decaphora cubana


The huntsman genus Decaphora Franganillo, 1931 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae)
By Cristina A. Rheims & Giraldo Alayon
Zootaxa 3815(1): 79-93, 2014
We currently only have one species that is affected here in North America: Pseudosparianthis cubana is transferred to genus Decaphora in this paper.

Curicaberis, a new genus of Sparassidae from North and Central America (Araneae, Sparassidae, Sparassinae)
By Cristina A. Rheims
ZooTaxa, 2015
Vol 4012, No 3: 401-446
http://biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4012.3.1

On the native Nearctic species of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae Bertkau (Araneae)
By Cristina A. Rheims
Journal of Arachnology 38(3): 530–537, 2010

Cuban Spiders in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
By Elizabeth Bryant
Bulletin Museum of Comparative Zoology 86(7): 247-532, 1940
Full Text at the Biodiversity Heritage Library

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