What's new about pholcids?
(regarding mostly systematics)

A. New publications (since 2006)

B. Recently published highlights, mostly on pholcids:
 Revision of Pholcus and close relatives (read more...)
Phylogeny and classification of Pholcidae: an update (read more...)
Pholcid spider diversity in Brazil's Atlantic Forest (read more...)
metagonia Notes on the biology of leaf-dwelling Metagonia species (read more...)
modisimus Modisimus on Hispaniola: unimagined diversity (read more...)
crossopriza Guinean leaf-dwelling pholcids (read more...)
tainonia Tainonia: giant pholcids on the island of Hispaniola (read more...)
comb hairs Comb hairs on tarsus 4 in pholcid spiders (read more...)
asymmetry Asymmetric genitalia: a review (read more...)
kaliana Kaliana female genitalia: asymmetry and exaggeration (read more...)
molecular Molecular taxonomy in pholcid spiders (read more...)
sexual selection Sexual selection in spiders: a review (read more...)
molecular phylogeny Molecular phylogeny of pholcid spiders (read more...)
leptopholcus Leptopholcus in Dominican Amber (read more...)
exaggeration Exaggerated female genitalia: implications for sexual selection theory (read more...)
belisana Belisana Thorell: high species diversity and male-female coevolution (read more...)
mecolaesthus Do Mecolaesthus longissimus males fight with their abdomens? (read more...)
spermophora Spermophora: getting order into the chaos (read more)
leptopholcus Leptopholcus in South America (read more...)
speciation Speciation without changes in genital shape (read more...)
mariguitarensis Male asymmetric genitalia in a spider (read more...)
bulbal muscles Bulbal muscles in spiders: an overview (read more...)
color dimorphism First case of color dimorphism in pholcid spiders (read more...)
ibotyporanga Ibotyporanga: pholcids in arid Brazilian habitats (read more...)
buitinga East African pholcids (read more...)
quamtana Southern African pholcids (read more...)
madagascar Malagasy pholcids (read more...)
ciboneya Female genital dimorphism in a spider (read more...)
new world pholcids New World pholcids: a genus level revision (read more...)
senoculata The genitalia of Spermophora senoculata: functional morphology (read more...)
sri lanka A new genus of pholcids from Sri Lanka (see Abstract)

C. In preparation, submitted, and in press:
The Pholcidae of Argentina
 Revision and cladistic analysis of Smeringopus