Wolbachia pipientis is an endosymbiotic bacterium common to arthropods and filarial
nematodes. This study presents the first survey and characterization of Wolbachia pipientis that …

The scorpion family Bothriuridae occupies a subset of landmasses formerly constituting East
and West temperate Gondwana, but its relationship to other scorpion families is in question. …

Objective: To investigate species‐specific envenoming rates and spectrum of severity of
funnel‐web spider bites, and the efficacy and adverse effects of funnel‐web spider antivenom. …

Spider systematics has a history that reaches back over 250 years, to the publication of Carl
Clerck’s Svenska Spindlar (Clerck, 1757). Linnaeus (1758), in the famous 10 th edition of …

Spiders of the family Theraphosidae occur throughout most tropical regions of the world.
There have only been three case reports of bites by these spiders in Australia. The aim of this …

Background Venomous animals incapacitate their prey using complex venoms that can
contain hundreds of unique protein toxins. The realisation that many of these toxins may have …

The family Hexathelidae is newly erected. Three subfamilies are recognized: Plesiothelinae,
for the monotypic Tasmanian genus Plesiothele; Macrothelinae, confined to Macrothele, …

Based on a survey of a wide variety of oonopid genera and outgroups, we hypothesize new
synapomorphies uniting the Oonopidae (minus the South African genus Calculus Purcell, …

Spiders of the nemesiid mygalomorph subfamily Anaminae are common in the Australasian
region from rainforests to deserts. Using specimens from all 12 named genera, we …

The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (subfamily Arbanitinae) are
revised at the generic level, using a multi-locus molecular phylogenetic foundation and …