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Dolomedes may easily be considered to be among the most charismatic spider taxa. Known colloquially as fishing or raft spiders, this clade of dolomedid cursorial hunters is speciose with about 100 valid species names. Most Dolomedes are large spiders that inhabit water bodies across all continents e ...

Pisauridae are a global and heterogeneous assemblage of spider genera with diverse morphologies and lifestyles. So far, the monophyly of Pisauridae and the inclusion of fishing spiders (Dolomedes) in this family have not been thoroughly tested. Here, we amend the systematics and classification of th ...

Arachnids are extremely well equipped to both extract salient information from their environment and to transmit salient information through their environment utilizing a diverse array of sensory structures. Many of these sensory structures are highly specialized and are unique to particular arachni ...