Huber BA, Meng G, Dederichs TM, Michalik P, Forman M, Král J. 2024. Castaways: the Leeward Antilles endemic spider genus Papiamenta (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 38: IS23052. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS23052
Huber BA, Meng G, Valdez-Mondragón A. 2024. Notes on Chisosa (Araneae: Pholcidae), with the description of a new species from Mexico. Zootaxa 5419: 217-244. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5419.2.3
Huber BA, Meng G, Cabra García J, Carvalho LS. 2024. Thriving in dry conditions: on the Neotropical spider genus Galapa (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 5419: 301-347. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.1
2023
Huber BA, Meng G, Dupérré N, Astrin J, Herrera M. 2023. Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 909:1-63. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.909.2351
Huber BA. 2023. Do pholcid spiders balloon? Arachnology 19(6): 885-887. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.885
Huber BA, Meng G, Král J, Ávila Herrera IM, Izquierdo MA. 2023. Revision of the South American Ninetinae genus Guaranita (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 900: 32-80.
Huber BA, Meng G, Clark HL, Cazanove G. 2023. First blind daddy long-legs spiders from Australia and Réunion (Araneae, Pholcidae). Subterranean Biology 46: 1-19. https://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.46.105798
Huber BA, Meng G, A Váldez-Mondragón, Král J, Ávila Herrera IM, Carvalho LS. 2023. Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 880: 1-89. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2023.880.2173
Huber BA, Meng G, Král J, Ávila Herrera IM, Izquierdo MA, Carvalho LS. 2023. High and dry: integrative taxonomy of the Andean spider genus Nerudia (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 198: 534-591. https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlac100
Huber BA, Meng G, Dupérré N, Herrera M, Inclán D, Wipfler B. 2023. Humpback spiders from Ecuador: relationships, prosoma ‘inflation’, and genital asymmetry (Araneae: Pholcidae: Mecolaesthus). Invertebrate Systematics 37: 117-151. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS22052
Huber BA, Meng G. 2023. On the mysterious Seychellois endemic spider genus Cenemus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 81: 179-200. https://doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e86793
2022
Dederichs TM, Huber BA, Michalik P. 2022. Evolutionary morphology of sperm in pholcid spiders (Pholcidae, Synspermiata). BMC Zoology 7: 52. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40850-022-00148-3
Huber BA. 2022. Revisions of Holocnemus and Crossopriza: the spotted-leg clade of Smeringopinae (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 795: 1-241. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.795.1663
Huber BA, Acurio AE. 2022. Are introduced spiders displacing native species on Galápagos? Observations on pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Arachnology 19: 191-198.
PDF, https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.191Huber BA, Meng G, Acurio AE, Astrin JJ, Inclán DJ, Izquierdo M, Valdez-Mondragón A. 2022. Metagonia spiders of Galápagos: blind cave-dwellers and their epigean relatives (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 36(7): 647-678. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS21082
Král J, Ávila Herrera IM, Šťáhlavský F, Sadílek D, Pavelka J, Chatzaki M, Huber BA. 2022. Karyotype differentiation and male meiosis in European clades of the spider genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Comparative Cytogenetics 16(4): 185-209. https://doi.org/10.3897/compcytogen.v16i4.85059
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber BA, Isaia M, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupic I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P. 2022. A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9: 236. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-022-01316-3
Carvalho LS, Huber BA. 2022. A replacement name for Pinocchio Huber & Carvalho, 2019 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 5162: 97-98. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5162.1.7
2021
Ávila Herrera IM, Král J, Pastuchová M, Forman M, Musilová J, Kořínková T, Šťáhlavský F, Zrzavá M, Nguyen P, Just P, Haddad CR, Hiřman M, Koubová M, Sadílek D, Huber BA. 2021. Evolutionary pattern of karyotypes and meiosis in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): implications for reconstructing chromosome evolution of araneomorph spiders. BMC Ecology and Evolution 21. 75. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-021-01750-8
Huber BA. 2021. Beyond size: sexual dimorphisms in pholcid spiders. Arachnology 18: 656-677. https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2020.18.7.656
Huber BA, Eberle J. 2021. Mining a photo library: eggs and egg sacs in a major spider family. Invertebrate Biology 140: e12349, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12349
Huber BA. 2021. First Northwest African species of the spider genus Artema, from caves in Morocco, with notes on body size in pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4984: 324-334. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.23
Huber BA, Pavlek M, Komnenov M. 2021. Revision of the spider genus Stygopholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae), endemic to the Balkan Peninsula. European Journal of Taxonomy 752: 1-60. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2021.752.1391
2020
Huber BA. 2020. Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726: 1-94. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4726.1.1
Huber BA, Villarreal O. 2020. On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 718: 1-317. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101
2019
Huber BA. 2019. The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4550: 1-57. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1
Huber BA, Carvalho LS. 2019. Filling the gaps: descriptions of unnamed species included in the latest moelcular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4546: 1-96. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4546.1.1
Huber BA, Caspar K, Eberle J. 2019. New species reveal unexpected interspecific microhabitat diversity in the genus Uthina Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 33: 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18002
Huber BA, Chao A. 2019. Inferring global species richness from megatransect data and undetected species estimates. Contributions to Zoology 88: 42-53.
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Eberhard WG, Rodríguez RL, Huber BA, Speck B, Miller H, Buzatto BA, Machado G. 2018. Sexual selection and static allometry: the importance of function. The Quarterly Review of Biology 93: 207-250. https://doi.org/10.1086/699410
Eberle J, Dimitrov D, Valdez-Mondragón A, Huber BA. 2018. Microhabitat change drives diversification in pholcid spiders. BMC Evolutionary Biology 18: 141.
PDF, https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-018-1244-8Supporting information: Eberle_et_al_2018_additional_file_1
PDFHuber BA. 2018. Cave-dwelling pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): a review. Subterranean Biology 26: 1-18.
PDF, http://doi.org/10.3897/subtbiol.26.26430Huber BA. 2018. The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits. Zootaxa 4395: 1-178. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4395.1.1
Huber BA, Eberle J, Dimitrov D. 2018. The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 789: 51-101.
PDF, http://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 Johnson NF, Chen H, Huber BA. 2018. New species of Idris Förster (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) from southeast Asia, parasitoids of the eggs of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 811: 65-80. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.811.29725
2017
Aharon S, Huber BA, Gavish-Regev E. 2017. Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European J Taxonomy 376: 1-57. http://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.376
Huber BA. 2017. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4219: 1-63. http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1
Huber BA, Arias CQ. 2017. Revision of the Venezuelan spider genus Stenosfemuraia González-Sponga, with new generic and specific synonymies (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4341: 495-508. http://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.3
Huber BA, Neumann J, Grabolle A, Hula V. 2017. Aliens in Europe: updates on the distributions of Modisimus culicinus and Micropholcus fauroti (Araneae, Pholcidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 53: 12-18. http://doi.org/10.5431/aramit5303
2016
Huber BA. 2016. Spider diversity and endemism in a South American hotspot: 20 new species of Carapoia (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 4177: 1-69. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4177.1.1
Huber BA, Nuñeza OM, Leh Moi Ung C. 2016. The Philippine hair wax spiders and their relatives: Revision of the Pholcus bicornutus species group (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 225: 1-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.225
Huber BA, Koh JKH, Ghazali ARM, Nuñeza O, Leh Moi Ung C, Petcharad B. 2016. New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae). European J Taxonomy 200: 1-45. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.200
Huber BA, Petcharad B, Leh Moi Ung C, Koh JKH, Ghazali ARM. 2016. The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae), new data from field observations and ultrastructure. European Journal of Taxonomy 190: 1-55. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.190
Huber BA. 2016. A new genus of litter-dwelling pholcine spiders from Sarawak (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 186: 1-15. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.186
Huber BA, Leh Moi Ung C. 2016. The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah. European Journal of Taxonomy 184: 1-32. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2016.184
Astrin JJ, Höfer H, Spelda J, Holstein J, Bayer S, Hendrich L, Huber BA, Kielhorn KH, Krammer HJ, Lemke M, Monje JC, Morinière J, Rulik B, Petersen M, Janssen H, Muster C. 2016. Towards a DNA barcode reference database for spiders and harvestmen of Germany. PLoS ONE 11(9): 1-24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162624
2015
Huber BA. 2015. Small scale endemism in Brazil's Atlantic Forest: 14 new species of Mesabolivar (Araneae, Pholcidae), each known from a single locality. Zootaxa 3942: 1-60. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3942.1.1
Huber BA, Neumann J, Rehfeldt S, Grabolle A, Reiser N. 2015. Back in Europe: Quamtana spiders (Araneae: Pholcidsae) in Germany. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 50: 51-56.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.5431/aramit5007Huber BA, Nuñeza OM. 2015. Evolution of genital asymmetry, exaggerated eye stalks, and extreme palpal elongation in Panjange spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 169: 1-46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.169
Huber BA, Nuñeza OM, Leh Moi Ung C. 2015. Revision, phylogeny, and microhabitat shifts in the Southeast Asian spider genus Aetana (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 162: 1-78. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.162
Huber BA, Petcharad B, Bumrungsri S. 2015. Revision of the enigmatic Southeast Asian spider genus Savarna (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 160: 1-23. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.160
Huber BA. 2014. Pholcidae. In: Biodiversidad de Artrópodos Argentinos, Vol. 3 (eds. S. Roig-Juñent, L.E. Claps, J.J. Morrone), pp. 131-140. Sociedad Entomológica Argentina.
PDF (proofs)Huber BA. 2014. Progress and prospects in taxonomy: what is our goal and are we ever going to reach it? Journal of Arachnology 42: 142-147.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/CK13-69.1Huber BA, Carvalho LS, Benjamin SP. 2014. On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 28: 432-450.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS13050Huber BA, Colmenares PA, Ramirez MJ. 2014. Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae. Zootaxa 3847: 413-422.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5Huber BA, Dimitrov D. 2014. Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 253: 394-403.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2014.04.001Huber BA, Le Gall P, Mavoungou JF. 2014. Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 81: 1-46.
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Dimitrov D, Astrin JJ, Huber BA. 2013. Pholcid spider molecular systematics revisited, with new insights into the biogeography and the evolution of the group. Cladistics 29: 132-146.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2012.00419.xSupporting information: Figures S1-S10; Tables S1-S7.
Huber BA. 2013. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3713: 1-160.
PDF (27 MB); http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3713.1.1Huber BA, Kwapong P. 2013. West African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of five new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 59: 1-44. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.59
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2013.59Huber BA, Pérez-González A, Astrin JJ, Blume C, Baptista R. 2013. Litoporus iguassuensis Mello-Leitão, 1918 (Araneae, Pholcidae): camouflaged retreat, sexual dimorphism, female color polymorphism, intra-specific genital variation, and description of the male. Zoologischer Anzeiger 252: 511-521.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2012.12.0012012
Huber BA. 2012. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3461: 1-138.
PDF; (16 MB)Huber BA, Warui CM. 2012. East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 29: 1-44.
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(20 MB); http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2012.29Huber BA. 2011. Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner zoologische Monographien 58: 1-509.
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resolution, 36 MB)Huber BA. 2011. Phylogeny and classification of Pholcidae (Araneae): an update. Journal of Arachnology 39: 211-222.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/CA10-57.1Huber BA, Rheims CA. 2011. Diversity and endemism of pholcid spiders in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest, with descriptions of four new species of the Atlantic Forest endemic genus Tupigea (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 45: 275-301.
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Huber BA. 2010. Mating positions and the evolution of asymmetric insect genitalia. Genetica 138: 19-25.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10709-008-9339-6Huber BA, Fischer N, Astrin JJ. 2010. High level of endemism in Haiti's last remaining forests: a revision of Modisimus (Araneae: Pholcidae) on Hispaniola, using morphology and molecules. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 158: 244-299.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2009.00559.xHuber BA, Lankhorst S. 2010. Non-insect arthropod types in the ZFMK collection, Bonn (Acari, Araneae, Scorpiones, Pantopoda, Amphipoda). Bonn zoological Bulletin 58: 217-226.
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2024)Eberhard WG, Huber BA. 2010. Spider genitalia: precise maneuvers with a numb structure in a complex lock. Pp. 249-284. In: J. L. Leonard & A. Córdoba-Aguilar (eds.) Evolution of primary sexual characters in animals.
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Huber BA. 2009. Life on leaves: leaf-dwelling pholcids of Guinea, with emphasis on Crossopriza cylindrogaster, a spider with inverted resting position, pseudo-eyes, lampshade web, and tetrahedral egg-sac (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 43: 2491-2523.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930903207876Huber BA. 2009. Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 1970: 64-68; 1977: 68 (erratum).
PDFHuber BA, Astrin JJ. 2009. Increased sampling blurs morphological and molecular species limits: revision of the Hispaniolan endemic spider genus Tainonia (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 23: 281-300.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS09017Huber BA, Schütte A. 2009. Preliminary notes on leaf-dwelling Metagonia spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) in the Esquinas Rainforest near La Gamba, Costa Rica: leaf preference, mimesis, and web structure. Contributions to Natural History (Bern) 12: 681-697.
PDFHuber BA, Fleckenstein N. 2008. Comb-hairs on the fourth tarsi in pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 36: 232-240.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/CSh07-71.1Beatty JA, Berry JW, Huber BA. 2008. The pholcid spiders of Micronesia and Polynesia (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 36: 1-25.
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Astrin JJ, Misof B, Huber BA. 2007. The pitfalls of exaggeration: molecular and morphological evidence suggests Kaliana is a synonym of Mesabolivar (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 1646: 17-30.
PDFHuber BA. 2007. Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 1635: 23-43.
PDFHuber BA, El Hennawy H. 2007. On Old World ninetine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with a new genus and species and the first record for Madagascar. Zootaxa 1635: 45-53.
PDF Huber BA, Sinclair B, Schmitt M. 2007. The evolution of asymmetric genitalia in spiders and insects. Biological Reviews 82: 647-698.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-185X.2007.00029.xMachado ÉO, Brescovit AD, Candiani DF, Huber BA. 2007. Three new species of Mesabolivar (Aranea, Pholcidae) from leaf litter in urban environments in the city of São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Iheringia 97: 168-176.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0073-47212007000200006Machado ÉO, Yamamoto FU, Brescovit AD, Huber BA. 2007. Three new ground living pholcid species (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Parque Estadual da Cantareira, São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil. Zootaxa 1582: 27–37.
PDFUseta G, Huber BA, Costa FG. 2007. Spermathecal morphology and sperm dynamics in the female Schizocosa malitiosa (Araneae: Lycosidae). European Journal of Entomology 104: 777-785.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.14411/eje.2007.099Astrin JJ, Huber BA, Misof B, Kluetsch CFC. 2006. Molecular taxonomy in pholcid spiders (Pholcidae, Araneae): evaluations of species identification methods using CO1 and 16S rRNA. Zoologica Scripta 35: 441-457.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00239.xHuber BA. 2006. Cryptic female exaggeration: the asymmetric female internal genitalia of Kaliana yuruani (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Morphology 276: 705-712.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10431Huber BA, Wunderlich J. 2006. Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first case of egg-parasitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40: 2341-2360.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2006.00239.xMichalik P, Huber BA. 2006. Spermiogenesis in Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911) (Pholcidae, Araneae): evidence for considerable within-family variation in sperm structure and development. Zoology 109: 14-25.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.zool.2005.09.010
Bruvo-Madaric B, Huber BA, Steinacher A, Pass G. 2005. Phylogeny of pholcid spiders (Araneae:Pholcidae): combined analysis using morphology and molecules. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 37: 661-673.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2005.08.016Funke S, Huber BA. 2005. Allometry of genitalia and fighting structures in Linyphia triangularis (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology 33: 870-872.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/S04-16.1Huber BA. 2005. High species diversity, male-female coevolution, and metaphyly in Southeast Asian pholcid spiders: the case of Belisana Thorell 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoologica 155: 1-126.
PDF (16
MB)Huber BA. 2005. Sexual selection research on spiders: progress and biases. Biological Reviews 80: 363-385.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1464793104006700Huber BA. 2005. Revision of the genus Spermophora Hentz in Southeast Asia and on the Pacific Islands, with descriptions of three new genera (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 79-2(4): 61-172.
PDF (4.3 MB)Huber BA. 2005. Pholcidae. In: Ubick, D., Paquin, P., Cushing, P.E., Roth, V. (eds) Spiders of North America: an identification manual, pp. 194-196.
PDFHuber BA. 2005. The pholcid spiders of Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae): state of knowledge and directions for future research. In: Huber B.A., Sinclair, B.J., Lampe, K.-H. (eds.) African Biodiversity: Molecules, Organisms, Ecosystems, pp. 181-186. Springer Verlag.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/0-387-24320-8_15Huber BA. 2005. Evidence for directional selection on male abdomen size in Mecolaesthus longissimus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 33: 573-581.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/04-69.1Huber BA. 2005. Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider genus Carapoia González-Sponga (Araneae: Pholcidae), with descriptions of new species from Brazil’s Atlantic forest. Invertebrate Systematics 19: 541-556.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS05038Huber BA, Benjamin S. 2005. The pholcid spiders from Sri Lanka: redescription of Pholcus ceylonicus and description of Wanniyala new genus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 39(37): 3305-3319.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222930500145123Huber BA, Brescovit AD, Rheims CA. 2005. Exaggerated female genitalia in two new spider species (Araneae: Pholcidae), with comments on genital evolution by female choice versus antagonistic coevolution. Insect Systematics and Evolution 36: 285-292.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/187631205788838375Huber BA, Pérez-G, A, Baptista RLC. 2005. Leptopholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) in continental America: rare relicts in low precipitation areas. Bonner zoologische Beiträge 53(1/2): 99-107.
PDF (5 MB)Huber BA, Rheims CA, Brescovit AD. 2005. Speciation without changes in genital shape: a case study on Brazilian pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 243: 273-279.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2004.12.001Huber BA, Rheims CA, Brescovit AD. 2005. Two new species of litter-dwelling Metagonia spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) document both rapid and slow genital evolution. Acta Zoologica (Stockholm): 86: 33-40.
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Huber BA. 2004. Evidence for functional segregation in the directionally asymmetric male genitalia of the spider Metagonia mariguitarensis (Gonzalez-Sponga) (Pholcidae: Araneae). Journal of Zoology, London 262: 317-326.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0952836903004709Huber BA. 2004. Evolutionary transformation from muscular to hydraulic movements in spider (Arachnida, Araneae) genitalia: a study based on histological serial sections. Journal of Morphology 261: 364-376.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jmor.10255Huber BA. 2004. The significance of copulatory structures in spider systematics. In: Schult, J. (ed.) Studien zur Theorie der Biologie, Band 5, Biosemiotik - Praktische Anwendung und Konsequenzen fuer die Einzeldisziplinen, VWB-Verlag fuer Wissenschaft und Bildung, Berlin.
PDFHuber BA, Hopf S. 2004. Color dimorphism in adults and juveniles of Buitinga safura (Araneae, Pholcidae). Journal of Arachnology 32: 336-340.
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Huber BA. 2003. Cladistic analysis of Malagasy pholcid spiders reveals generic level endemism: Revision of Zatavua n. gen. and Paramicromerys Millot (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 261-318.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00046.x Huber BA. 2003. High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137: 555-619.
PDF (5MB); http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00053.xHuber BA. 2003. Southern African pholcid spiders: revision and cladistic analysis of Quamtana gen. nov. and Spermophora Hentz (Araneae: Pholcidae), with notes on male-female covariation. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 139: 477-527.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.0024-4082.2003.00082.xHuber BA. 2003. On the terminology of polytomies. Cladistics 19: 273.
PDF (proofs); http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2003.tb00371.xHuber BA. 2003. Rapid evolution and species-specificity of arthropod genitalia: fact or artifact? Organisms Diversity & Evolution 3: 63-71.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/1439-6092-00059Huber BA, Brescovit AD. 2003. Ibotyporanga Mello-Leitão: tropical spiders in Brazilian semi-arid habitats (Araneae: Pholcidae). Insect Systematics and Evolution 34: 15-20.
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Huber BA. 2002. Functional morphology of the genitalia in the spider Spermophora senoculata (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 241: 105-116.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1078/0044-5231-00024Huber BA. 2002. Ninetis russellsmithi n. sp., an unusual new pholcid spider species from Malawi (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Insect Science 2.4: 1-3.
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Huber BA. 2001. The pholcids of Australia (Araneae; Pholcidae): taxonomy, biogeography, and relationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 260: 1-144.
PDF (20 MB) http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0090(2001)260%3C0001:TPOAAP%3E2.0.CO;2Huber BA, Pérez-González A. 2001. A new genus of pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) endemic to Western Cuba, with a case of female genitalic dimorphism. American Museum Novitates 3329: 1-23.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2001)329<0001:ANGOPS>2.0.CO;2Huber BA, Pérez-González A. 2001. Female genital dimorphism in a spider (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Zoology, London 255: 301-304.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S095283690100139XHuber BA, van Harten A. 2001. Ninetis subtilissima Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae): Redescription and SEM ultrastructure. American Museum Novitates 3336: 1-7.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2001)336<0001:NSSAPR>2.0.CO;2Huber BA, Zhu M-S. 2001. On Taczanowski’s pholcids, with three new synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 12(3): 151-152.
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Huber BA. 2000. New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): a revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348.
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Eberhard WG, Huber BA, Rodriguez RL. 1999. Don’t forget the biology: a reply to Green. Evolution 53(5): 1624-1627.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2640910Huber BA. 1999. Sexual selection in pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): artful chelicerae and forceful genitalia. Journal of Arachnology 27(1): 135-141.
PDFHuber BA, Deeleman-Reinhold CL, Pérez-González A. 1999. The spider genus Crossopriza (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates 3262: 1-10.
PDF; http://hdl.handle.net/2246/3105Pérez-González A, Huber BA. 1999. Metagonia debrasi n. sp., the first species of the genus Metagonia Simon in Cuba (Pholcidae, Araneae). Revue Arachnologique 13(4): 69-72.
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Eberhard WG, Huber BA. 1998. Courtship, copulation, and sperm transfer in Leucauge mariana (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) with implications for higher classification. Journal of Arachnology 26(3): 342-368.
PDFEberhard WG, Huber BA. 1998. Possible links between embryology, lack of innervation, and the evolution of male genitalia in spiders. Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 11(2): 73-80.
PDFEberhard WG, Huber BA. 1998. Copulation and sperm transfer in Archisepsis flies (Diptera, Sepsidae) and the evolution of their intromittent genitalia. Studia Dipterologica 5(2): 217-248.
PDFEberhard WG, Huber BA, Rodriguez RL, Briceño D, Salas I, Rodriguez V. 1998. One size fits all? Relationships between the size of genitalia and other body parts in 20 species of insects and spiders. Evolution 52(2): 415-431.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2411078Huber BA. 1998. On the "valve" in the genitalia of female pholcids (Pholcidae, Araneae). Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 11(2): 41-48.
PDFHuber BA. 1998. Notes on the neotropical spider genus Modisimus (Pholcidae, Araneae), with descriptions of thirteen new species from Costa Rica and neighboring countries. Journal of Arachnology 26: 19-60.
PDF (4MB)Huber BA. 1998. Report of some pholcid spiders collected in Guatemala and Honduras (Araneae, Pholcidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 105(1): 49-80.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.part.80031Huber BA. 1998. Genital mechanics in some neotropical pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with implications for systematics. Journal of Zoology, London 244: 587-599.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1998.tb00063.xHuber BA. 1998. Spider reproductive behaviour: a review of Gerhardt’s work from 1911-1933, with implications for sexual selection. Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 11(3): 81-91.
PDFHuber BA, Pérez-González A. 1998. Leptopholcus delicatulus (Araneae, Pholcidae) is a valid name. Journal of Arachnology 26: 251-256.
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Huber BA. 1997. Evidence for gustatorial courtship in a haplogyne spider (Hedypsilus culicinus: Pholcidae: Araneae). Netherlands Journal of Zoology 47(1): 95-98.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156854297X00265Huber BA. 1997. On the distinction between Modisimus and Hedypsilus (Araneae, Pholcidae), with notes on behavior and natural history. Zoologica Scripta 25(3): 233-240.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00164.x Huber BA. 1997. On American ‘Micromerys’ and Metagonia (Araneae, Pholcidae), with notes on natural history and genital mechanics. Zoologica Scripta 25(4): 341-363.
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00170.xHuber BA. 1997. Redescriptions of Eugène Simon’s neotropical pholcids (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoosystema 19(4): 573-612.
PDFHuber BA. 1997. The pholcid spiders of Costa Rica (Aranae: Pholcidae). Revista de Biologia Tropical 45(4): 1583-1634.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.15517/rbt.v45i4.21499Huber BA, Eberhard WG. 1997. Courtship, copulation, and genital mechanics in Physocyclus globosus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 74: 905-918.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z97-109Huber BA, Senglet A. 1997. Copulation with contralateral insertion in entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Entelegynae: Tetragnathidae). Netherlands Journal of Zoology 47(1): 99-102.
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Huber BA. 1996. Genitalia, fluctuating asymmetry, and patterns of sexual selection in Physocyclus globosus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, suppl. 1996: 289-294.
PDFHuber BA. 1995. Genital morphology and copulatory mechanics in Anyphaena accentuata (Anyphaenidae) and Clubiona pallidula (Clubionidae: Araneae). Journal of Zoology, London 235: 689-702.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7998.1995.tb01778.xHuber BA. 1995. The retrolateral tibial apophysis in spiders - shaped by sexual selection? Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 151-163.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.1995.tb00931.xHuber BA. 1995. Copulatory mechanism in Holocnemus pluchei and Pholcus opilionoides, with notes on male cheliceral apophyses and stridulatory organs in Pholcidae (Araneae). Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 76(4): 291-300.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.1995.tb01001.xUhl G, Huber BA, Rose W. 1995. Male pedipalp morphology and copulatory mechanism in Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775) (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bulletin of the British arachnological Society 10(1): 1-9.
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Huber BA. 1994. Spermophore morphology reveals a new synapomorphy of Oecobius and Uroctea (Araneae, Oecobiidae). Journal of Arachnology 22: 73-74.
PDFHuber BA. 1994. Copulatory mechanics in the funnel-web spiders Histopona torpida and Textrix denticulata (Agelenidae, Araneae). Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 75(4): 379-384.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6395.1994.tb00974.xHuber BA. 1994. Funktion und Evolution komplexer Kopulationsorgane. Eine Analyse von Schnittserien durch in copula schockfixierte Spinnen. Mitt. dtsch. Ges. allg. angew. Entomol. 9: 247-250.
PDFHuber BA. 1994. Genital bulb muscles in entelegyne spiders. Journal of Arachnology 22: 75-76.
PDFHuber BA. 1994. Genital morphology, copulatory mechanism and reproductive biology in Psilochorus simoni (Berland, 1911) (Pholcidae; Araneae). Netherlands Journal of Zoology 44(1-2): 85-99.
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Huber BA. 1993. Genital mechanics and sexual selection in the spider Nesticus cellulanus (Araneae: Nesticidae). Canadian Journal of Zoology 71: 2437-2447.
PDF; http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/z93-340Huber BA. 1993. Female choice and spider genitalia. Boll. Accad. Gioenia Sci. Nat. (Catania) 26: 209-214.
PDFHuber KC, Haider TS, Müller MW, Huber BA, Schweyen RJ, Barth FG. 1993. DNA sequence data indicates the polyphyly of the family Ctenidae (Araneae). Journal of Arachnology 21: 194-201.
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Huber BA. 1992. Frontal heart and arterial system in the head of isopoda. Crustaceana 63(1): 57-69.
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