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Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae)

  • 1. Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion, Israel. Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany. The Arachnid National Natural History Collection, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel.
  • 2. Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany. & Email: b.huber@zfmk.de & urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:33607F65-19BF-4DC9-94FD-4BB88CED455F
  • 3. The Arachnid National Natural History Collection, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat Ram, Jerusalem, Israel. & urn:lsid:zoobank.org:author:FC073F19-2202-4C89-8B43-CEA4CC5E2D50 & Corresponding author: efrat.gavish-regev@mail.huji.ac.il

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Aharon, Shlomi, Huber, Bernhard A., Gavish-Regev, Efrat (2017): Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 376 (376): 1-57, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.376

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