PUBLICATIONS
In press

Álvarez-Padilla F., Dimitrov D., Giribet G., Hormiga G. In press. Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data. Cladistics.

Dimitrov D., Hormiga, G. In press. Revision and cladistic analysis of the orbweaving spider genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.

Benjamin PS., Dimitrov D., Gillespie RG., Hormiga, G. In press. Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Cladistics. (doi: 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x)

2008

Dimitrov D., Arnedo MA, Ribera C. 2008. Colonization and diversification of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the Macaronesian archipelagoes: Evidence for long-term occupancy yet rapid recent speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 48(2): 596-614. (doi: 10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.027)

Lopardo, L. and G. Hormiga. 2008. Phylogenetic placement of the Tasmanian spider Acrobleps hygrophilus (Araneae, Anapidae) with comments on the evolution of the capture web in Araneoidea. Cladistics 24: 1-33.(doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2007.00173.x)

Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. 2008. Until dirt do us apart: on the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). ZOOTAXA, 1698: 49-56. Download PDF

Alvarez-Padilla, F. and G. Hormiga. 2008. A protocol for digesting internal soft tissues and mounting spiders for scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Arachnology 35: 538-542.

2007

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2007. The genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the Canary Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 59-114. Download PDF

Dimitrov D., Alvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga,G. 2007. The female genitalic morphology of the orb weaving spider genus Agriognatha (Araneae, Tetraganthidae). Journal of Morphology 268(9): 758-770. Download PDF

Alvarez-Padilla, F. 2007. Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 285-335.

Hormiga, G., F. Alvarez-Padilla and S.P. Benjamin. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum Novitates 3577: 1-21. Download PDF

Lopardo, L. and G. Hormiga. 2007. On the spider genus Cepheia Simon 1894 (Araneae, Synaphridae). American Museum Novitates 3575: 1-18.

Ramírez, M.J., J.A. Coddington, W.P. Maddison, P.E. Midford, L. Prendini, J. Miller, C.E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, P. Sierwald, N. Scharff, S.P. Benjamin, and W.C. Wheeler. 2007. Linking of Digital Images to Phylogenetic Data Matrices Using a Morphological Ontology. Systematic Biology 56 (2): 283-294. Download PDF

Lopardo, L., and M.J. Ramírez. 2007. The combing of cribellar silk by the prithine Misionella mendensis, with notes on other filistatid spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae). American Museum Novitates 3563: 1-14.

Lopardo, L., G. Hormiga and A. Melic. 2007. Spinneret spigot morphology in synaphrid spiders (Araneae, Synaphridae), with comments on the systematics of the family and description of a new species of Synaphris Simon 1894 from Spain. American Museum Novitates 3556: 1-26.

Miller, J. A. 2007. Review of erigonine spider genera in the Neotropics (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 149 (Supplement): 1-263.

2006

Kuntner, M. Alvarez-Padilla, F. 2006a. Systematics of the Afro-Macronesian spider genus Sancus (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 34(1):113-125. Download PDF

Kuntner, M. 2006b. Phylogenetic systematics of the Gondwanan nephilid spider lineage Clitaetrinae (Araneae, Nephilidae). Zoologica Scripta 35(1):19-62.

Kuntner, M. 2006c. A monograph of Nephilengys, the pantropical ‘hermit spiders’ (Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae). Systematic Entomology 32(1): xx-xx.

Agnarsson I. 2006. A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 146: 453-593.

2005

Hormiga, G. and S. Lew. 2005. Chapter 48: Pimoidae. In: Darrell Ubick, Pierre Paquin, Paula E. Cushing, & Vince Roth (eds.) Spiders of North America: an identification manual. American Arachnological Society. 377 pages. Download PDF

Lopardo, L. and J.A. Coddington. 2005. Chapter 40: Mysmenidae. In: D. Ubick et al. (eds.) Spiders of North America: an identification manual.American Arachnological Society. 377 pages. Download PDF

Hormiga, G., D.J. Buckle and N. Scharff. 2005. Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 145: 249-262. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. and N. Scharff. 2005. Monophyly and phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Labulla Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and description of the new genus Pecado. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 143:359-404. Download PDF

Agnarsson I. 2005. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the American ethicus and rupununi groups of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae). Zoologica Scripta 34: 389-413. Download PDF

Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2005. Madagascar: an Unexpected Hotspot of Social Anelosimus Spider Diversity (Araneae: Theridiidae). Systematic Entomology 30: 575-592.

Miller JA, Agnarsson I. 2005. A redescription of Chrysso nigriceps (Araneae, Theridiidae) with evidence for maternal care. Journal of Arachnology 33: 711-717.

Kuntner, M. 2005. A revision of Herennia (Araneae, Nephilidae, Nephilinae), the Australasian ‘coin spiders’. Invertebrate Systematics 19(5) 391–436.

2004

Agnarsson I. 2004. Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141(4): 447-626. Download PDF

Arnedo MA, Coddington J, Agnarsson I, Gillespie RG. 2004. From a comb to a tree: Phylogenetic relationships of the comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31: 225-245. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. and G. Giribet. 2004. Fundamentos de Cladística. In: Barrientos, J.A. (ed.) Curso Práctico de Entomología. Manuals de la Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona 41, pp. 55-84.

Miller, J.A. and G. Hormiga. 2004. Clade Stability and the Addition of Data - A Case Study from Erigonine Spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Cladistics 20: 385-442. (cover article) Download PDF Download Software (Pest 3.0)

2003

Agnarsson I. 2003a. Spider webs as habitat patches - The distribution of kleptoparasites (Argyrodes, Theridiidae) among host webs (Nephila, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 31(3): 344-349. Download PDF

Agnarsson I. 2003b. The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae: Synotaxidae) with a description of a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny. Invertebrate Systematics 17(6): 719-734. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 2003. Weintrauboa, a new genus of pimoid spiders from Japan and adjacent islands, with comments on the monophyly and diagnosis of the family Pimoidae and the genus Pimoa (Araneoidea, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 139: 261-281. Download PDF

Hormiga, G., Arnedo, M. Gillespie, R. G. 2003. Speciation on a Conveyor Belt: Sequen-tial Colonization of the Hawaiian Islands by Orsonwelles Spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Systematic Biology 52(1): 70-88 (cover article). Download PDF

Miller, J. 2003. Assessing Progress in Systematics with Continuous Jackknife Function Analysis. Systematic biology 52(1): 55-65. Download PDF

Scharff, N., J. A. Coddington, C. E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, and P. Bjørn. 2003. When to quit? Estimating spider species richness in a northern European deciduous forest. Journal of Arachnology 31:246-273. Download PDF

2002

Agnarsson, I. 2002. Sharing a web - on the relation of sociality and kleptoparasitism in theridiid spiders (Theridiidae, Araneae). Journal of Arachnology, 30(2): 181-188. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 2002. Orsonwelles, a new genus of giant linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Hawaiian Islands. Invertebrate Systematics 16:369-448 (cover article). Download PDF

Kuntner, M. 2002a. Discoveries Await Araneologists 'Down Under'. Australasian Arachnology 65: 10-13.

Kuntner, M. 2002b. The placement of Perilla (Araneae, Araneidae) with comments on araneid phylogeny. Journal of Arachnology, 30: 281-287. Download PDF

Kuntner, M. & G. Hormiga. 2002. The African spider genus Singafrotypa (Araneae, Araneidae). Journal of Arachnology, 30: 129-139. Download PDF

Whitehouse, M., I. Agnarsson, T. Miyashita, D. Smith, K. Cangialosi, T. Masumoto, D. Li & Y. Henaut. 2002. Argyrodes: Phylogeny, sociality and interspecific interactions - a report on the Argyrodes symposium, Badplaas 2001. Journal of Arachnology, 30(2): 238-245. Download PDF

2001

Hormiga, G. and J. Coddington. 2001. Patrones filogeneticos de dimorfismo sexual de tamaño en las arañas tejedoras de telas orbiculares (Araneae, Orbiculariae). In "Contemporary approaches for the study of biodiversity," H. Hernandez et al. Eds., Fondo Universitario de Cultura, UNAM, Mexico D.F., pp. 149-168.

2000

Agnarsson, I. 2000. Adansonia is a Baobab tree not a theridiid spider. Journal of Arachnology, 28: 351-352.Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 2000a. Higher level phylogenetics of erigonine spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 609:1-160.

Hormiga, G. 2000b. Review of F. Punzo, 1998, "The Biology of Camel-Spiders (Arachnida, Solifugae)." Systematic Biology 49(3):613-614.

Hormiga, G., N. Scharff, and J. Coddington. 2000. The Phylogenetic Basis of Sexual Size Dimorphism in Orb-Weaving Spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae). Systematic Biology 49(3):435-462. Download PDF

Toti, D. S., F. A. Coyle, & J. A. Miller. 2000. A structured inventory of Appalachian grass bald and heath bald spider assemblages and a test of species richness estimator performance. Journal of Arachnology, 28:329-345. Download PDF

1999

Griswold, C. E., C. Long, and G. Hormiga. 1999. A new spider of the genus Pimoa from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea, Pimoidae). Acta Botanica Yunnanica, Suppl. 11:91-97.

Hormiga, G. 1999. Cephalothoracic sulci in linyphiine spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology, 27:94-102. Download PDF

Miller, J. 1999. Revision and cladistic analysis of the erigonine spider genus Sisicottus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Journal of Arachnology, 27:553-603. Download PDF

Zujko-Miller, J. 1999. On the phylogenetic relationships of Sisicottus hibernus (Araneae, Linyphiidae, Erigoninae). Journal of Arachnology, 27:44-52. Download PDF

1998

Griswold, C., J. Coddington, G. Hormiga, and N. Scharff. 1998. Phylogeny of the orb web building spiders (Araneomorphae, Orbiculariae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 123:1-99. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 1998. The Spider Genus Napometa (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Journal of Arachnology, 26:125-132. Download PDF

1997

Coddington, J.A., G. Hormiga, and N. Scharff. 1997. Giant Female or Dwarf Male Spiders? Nature, 385:687-688. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 1997a. Dimorfismo Sexual - Enanismo del macho. Scientific American (Spanish Edition, Investigación y Ciencia), 250:37-38.

Hormiga, G. 1997b. Review of A.T. Barrion and J.A. Litsinger, 1995, Riceland Spiders of South and Southeast Asia. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 99(2):399-401.

1996

Howard, J.J., M.L. Henneman, G.A. Cronin, J.A. Fox, and G. Hormiga. 1996. Conditioning of scouts and recruits during foraging by a leaf-cutting ant, Atta colombica. Animal Behaviour, 52:299-306. Download PDF

1995

Hormiga, G., W.G. Eberhard, and J.A. Coddington. 1995. Web construction behavior in Australian Phonognatha and the phylogeny of nephiline and tetragnathid spiders (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Australian Journal of Zoology, 43:313-364. Download PDF

1994

Hormiga, G. 1994a. A revision and cladistic analysis of the spider family Pimoidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 549:1-105.

Hormiga, G. 1994b. Cladistics and the comparative morphology of linyphiid spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 111:1-71. Download PDF

1993

Hormiga, G. 1993a. Implications of the phylogeny of Pimoidae for the systematics of linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Araneoidea, Linyphiidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, 33(2):533-542. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. 1993b. Review of N.I. Platnick and C.D. Dondale, 1992, The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Part 19. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 95(3):517-519.

1992

Hormiga, G. 1992. Review of C.D. Dondale and J.H. Redner, 1990, The Insects and Arachnids of Canada. Part 17. Proc. Entomol. Soc. Wash. 94(4):602-604.

1990

Hormiga, G. and H.G. Döbel. 1990. A new Glenognatha (Araneae: Tetragnathidae) from New Jersey, with redescriptions of G. centralis and G. minuta. Journal of Arachnology, 18:195-204. Download PDF

Hormiga, G. and C. Ribera. 1990. Sobre tres especies cavernícolas del género Lepthyphantes Menge, 1866 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) de la Península Ibérica (Lepthyphantes gadesi Fage, 1931; L. fagei Machado, 1939 y L. bidentatus n. sp.). Revue Arachnologique, 9(3):35-47.

1986

Perera, A. and G. Hormiga. 1986. Consideraciones sobre la distribución espacial de los araneidos en un encinar mediterráneo montano (Quercetum mediterraneo-montanum). Actas X Congr. Int. Aracnol. Jaca, Spain, vol. I:280-281.

1985

Ribera, C. and G. Hormiga. 1985. Artrópodos epigeos del Macizo de San Juan de la Peña (Jaca, prov. de Huesca), XI. Arañas linífidas. Pirineos, 126:163-209.