Publications

Benavides, L.R, Hormiga, G., Giribet, G. (2016). Molecular phylogenetic analysis of “pirate spiders” (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of a new African genus and the first report of maternal care in the family. Cladistics. Accepted.

Wheeler, W.C. et al. The spider tree of life: Phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics. Accepted

Benavides, L.R. and Hormiga, G. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species. Zootaxa, 4064 (1): 1-72.

Dimitrov, D., Benavides, L., Arnedo, M., Giribet, G., Griswold, C, Scharff, N., Hormiga, G. (2016). Rounding up the usual suspects: a standard target-gene approach for resolving the interfamilial phylogenetic relationships of ecribellate orb-weaving spiders with a new family- rank classification (Araneae, Araneoidea). (Accepted in Cladistics, 2016).

Benavides, L.R., Giribet, G., Hormiga, G. Molecular phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the first description of maternal care behavior in the family and a new African genus. (Submitted to Cladistics, 2016).

Benavides, L.R. and Giribet, G. (2012). A revision of selected clades of the Neotropical members of the mite- harvestman family Neogoveidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) with the description of eight new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, 161(1): 1-144.

Giribet, G., Sharma, P., Benavides, L.R, Boyer, S., Clouse, R., de Bivort, B. Dimitrov, D. Kawauchi, G., Murienne, J., Schwendinger, P. (2012). Evolutionary and biogeographic history of the harvestman suborder Cyphophthalmi (Arachnida, Opiliones)—an ancient and global group of arachnids. Biological Journal of the Linnaean Society, 105: 92-130.

Murienne, J., Benavides, L.R., Prendini, L., Hormiga, G., Giribet, G. What does the cryptic arachnid order Ricinulei tell us about the effects of past climatic change on African biodiversity?

Pinzon J., Benavides, L.R, Sabogal, A. (2010). New records of araneid spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) in the Colombian Amazon Region. Zootaxa 2626: 46-60.

Benavides, L.R, Giribet, G. (2007). An illustrated catalogue to the South American species of the cyphophthalmid family Neogoveidae (Arthropoda, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) with a report on 37 new species. Zootaxa. 1509: 1-15.

Benavides, L.R, Florez, E. (2007). Comunidades de arañas (Arachnida: Araneae) en microhabitats de dosel en bosques inundables y no inundables de la Amazonía colombiana. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología. Vol 14:49-62.

Boyer S.L., Clouse, R., Benavides, L.R, Sharma, P., Schwendinger, P., Karunarathna, I., Giribet, G. (2007). Biogeography of the World: a case study with globally distributed arachnids. Journal of Biogeography. 34: 2070-2085.

Rico-G. and Benavides, L.R. (2005). Patterns in resources distribution between honey birds and ornitophilic plants in Rio Ñambi Natural Reserve. Acta Biológica Colombiana, 10 (2): 153.