Publications

In press

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40. Magalhaes ILF, Hagopián D, Laborda A, González A, Scioscia CL. Pikelinia schiapelliae, una nueva especie de araña de arenales de Argentina y Uruguay (Araneae: Filistatidae). Revista del Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales, nueva serie.

 

2024

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39. Magalhaes ILF, Martins PH, Faleiro BT, Vidigal THDA, Santos FR, Carvalho LS, Santos AJ. 2024. Complete phylogeny of Micrathena spiders suggests multiple dispersal events among Neotropical rainforests, islands and landmasses, and indicates that Andean orogeny promotes speciation. Cladistics 40: 552–575. doi: 10.1111/cla.12593.

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38. Magalhaes ILF, Iuri HA, Brescovit AD, Pizarro-Araya J. 2024. The tiniest violin: the male of Loxosceles vallenar (Araneae, Sicariidae). ZooKeys 1206: 327–342. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1206.122469 Open access

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Outreach: Magalhaes ILF. 2024. Una mirada a través de ocho ojos: el mundo táctil de las arañas y sus telas. Ciencia Hoy 190: 16–21.

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2023

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​37. Ramírez MJ, Wolff JO, Jäger P, Pavlek M, Pérez-González A, Magalhaes ILF, Michalik P. 2023. Geometric regularity in webs of non-orb-weaving spiders. Ecology and Evolution 13: e9839. DOI: 10.1002/ece3.9839 Open access

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2022

 

​36. Ramírez MJ, Magalhaes ILF, Pizarro-Araya J, Ballarin F, Marusik YM, Eskov KY. 2022. A new species of the spider genus Tekellina Levi, 1957 from Chile, with a broadened definition of the family Synotaxidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 301: 76–90. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2022.08.005

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35. Magalhaes ILF, Pérez-González A, Labarque FM, Carboni M, Hammel JU, Kunz R, Ramírez MJ, Solórzano-Kraemer MM. 2022. Revision of recluse spiders (Sicariidae: Loxosceles) preserved in Dominican amber and a total-evidence phylogeny of Scytodoidea reveal the first fossil Drymusidae. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 80: 541-559. DOI: 10.3897/asp.80.e86008. Open access

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34. Magalhaes ILF, Ramírez MJ. 2022. Phylogeny and biogeography of the ancient spider family Filistatidae (Araneae) is consistent both with long-distance dispersal and vicariance following continental drift. Cladistics 38: 538–562. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12505.

 

33. Magalhaes ILF, Aharon S, Ganem Z, Gavish-Regev E. 2022. A new semi-cryptic Filistata from caves in the Levant with comments on the limits of Filistata insidiatrix (Forsskål, 1775) (Arachnida: Araneae: Filistatidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 831: 149–174. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.831.1875 Open access

 

32. Gimenez-Pinheiro T, Carvalho LS, Brescovit AD, Magalhaes ILF, Schneider MC. 2022. Cytogenetic study in sand spiders (Sicariidae ) from the Brazilian Caatinga: sex chromosome system diversity in closely related species. Journal of Basic and Applied Genetics XXXIII: 1–10. DOI: 10.35407/bag.2022.33.01.05 Open access

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31. Magalhaes ILF, Berry JW, Koh JKH, Gray MR. 2022. Labahitha spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Filistatidae) from islands in the Indian and Pacific oceans. European Journal of Taxonomy 805: 1–51. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2022.805.1693. Open access

 

30. Gavish-Regev E, Steinpress IA, Salman INA, Segev N, Uzan A, Byun Y, Levy T, Aharon S, Zvik Y, Shtuhin R, Shapira Y, Majer M, Ganem Z, Zonstein S, Magalhaes ILF, Lubin Y. 2022. Five-year monitoring of a desert burrow-dwelling spider following an environmental disaster indicates long-term impacts. Insects 13: 101. https://doi.org/10.3390/insects13010101 Open access

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29. Zamani A, Stockmann M, Magalhaes ILF, Rheims CA. 2022. New taxonomic considerations in the spitting spider family Scytodidae (Arachnida:Araneae). Zootaxa 5092: 151–175. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5092.2.1

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2021

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28. Pekár S, Wolff JO, Černecká Ľ, Birkhofer K, Mammola S, Lowe EC, Fukushima CS, Herberstein ME, Kučera A, Buzatto BA, Djoudi EA, Domenech M, Enciso AV, Piñanez Espejo YMG, Febles S, García LF, Gonçalves-Souza T, Isaia M, Lafage D, Líznarová E, Macías-Hernández N, Magalhães I, Malumbres-Olarte J, Michálek O, Michalik P, Michalko R, Milano F, Munévar A, Nentwig W, Nicolosi G, Painting CJ, Pétillon J, Piano E, Privet K, Ramírez MJ, Ramos C, Řezáč M, Ridel A, Růžička V, Santos I, Sentenská L, Walker L, Wierucka K, Zurita GA, Cardoso P. 2021. The World Spider Trait database (WST): a centralised global open repository for curated data on spider traits. Database 2021: baab064. https://doi.org/10.1093/database/baab064

 

27. Magalhaes ILF, Santos AJ, Ramírez MJ. 2021. Incorporating topological and age uncertainty into event-based biogeography of sand spiders supports paleo-islands in Galapagos and ancient connections among neotropical dry forests. Diversity 13: 1–23. https://doi.org/10.3390/d13090418 Open access

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26. Magalhaes ILF, Porta AO, Wunderlich J, Proud DN, Ramírez MJ, Pérez-González A. 2021. Taxonomic revision of fossil Psilodercidae and Ochyroceratidae spiders (Araneae: Synspermiata), with a new species of Priscaleclercera from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber, northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research: 104751. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104751

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25. Ramírez MJ, Magalhaes ILF, Derkarabetian S, Ledford J, Griswold CE, Wood HM, Hedin M. 2021. Sequence-capture phylogenomics of true spiders reveals convergent evolution of respiratory systems. Systematic Biology 70, 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa043

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2020

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24. Magalhaes ILF, Stockmann M, Marusik YM, Zonstein SL. 2020. On Sahastata (Araneae: Filistatidae): complementary description of the generotype and two new species from Oman and Morocco. Zootaxa 4899, 215–246. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4899.1.12

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23. Alvarenga AS, Magalhaes ILF, Fonseca RN, Pérez González A. 2020. Rectifying the identities of the males of two Micrathena species (Araneae: Araneidae), with report of the first case of intersexuality in the genus. Zootaxa 4808: 151–164. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4808.1.9

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22. Magalhaes ILF, Azevedo GHF, Michalik P, Ramírez MJ. 2020. The fossil record of spiders revisited: implications for calibrating trees and evidence for a major faunal turnover since the Mesozoic. Biological Reviews 95: 184–217. https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12559

 

2019

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21. Magalhaes ILF, Neves DM, Santos FR, Vidigal THDA, Brescovit AD, Santos AJ. 2019. Phylogeny of Neotropical Sicarius sand spiders suggests frequent transitions from deserts to dry forests despite antique, broad-scale niche conservatism. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 140: 106569. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.106569

 

20. Magalhaes ILF. 2019. Spreadsheets to expedite taxonomic publications by automatic generation of morphological descriptions and specimen lists. Zootaxa 4624, 147–150. http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4624.1.12

 

19. Magalhaes ILF, Grismado CJ. 2019. The Malagasy species of the crevice weaver genus Andoharano (Araneae: Filistatidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 126: 263–307. http://dx.doi.org/10.3099/0027-4100-162.4.263 Open access

 

18. Magalhaes ILF, Ramírez MJ. 2019. The crevice weaver spider genus Kukulcania (Araneae: Filistatidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 426: 1–151. Open access

 

2018

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17. Magalhaes ILF. 2018. A new, relictual Antilloides from Mexican caves: first mainland record of the genus and revised placement of the fossil Misionella didicostae (Araneae: Filistatidae). Journal of Arachnology 46: 240–248. http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/joa-s-17-037.1 Open access

 

2017

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16. Zonstein SL, Marusik YM, Magalhaes ILF. 2017. Labahitha nom.n., a replacement name for Mystes Bristowe, 1938, with a redescription of the type species (Aranei: Filistatidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26: 303–309. https://doi.org/10.15298/arthsel.26.4.04 Open access

 

15. Brescovit AD, Taucare-Ríos A, Magalhaes ILF, Santos AJ. 2017. On Chilean Loxosceles (Araneae: Sicariidae): first description of the males of L. surca and L. coquimbo, new records of L. laeta and three remarkable new species from coastal deserts. European Journal of Taxonomy 388: 1–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.388 Open access

 

14. Magalhaes ILF, Ramírez MJ. 2017. Relationships and phylogenetic revision of Filistatinella spiders (Araneae: Filistatidae). Invertebrate Systematics 31: 665–712. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS16083

 

13. Magalhaes ILF, Ravelo AM, Scioscia CL, Peretti AV, Michalik P, Ramírez MJ. 2017. Recluse spiders produce flattened silk rapidly using a highly modified, self-sufficient spinning apparatus. Journal of Zoology 303: 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jzo.12462

 

12. Magalhaes ILF, Brescovit AD, Santos AJ. 2017. Phylogeny of Sicariidae spiders (Araneae:  Haplogynae), with a monograph on Neotropical Sicarius. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 179: 736–864. https://doi.org/10.1111/zoj.12442 Open access

 

11. Magalhaes ILF, Martins PH, Nogueira AA, Santos AJ. 2017. Finding hot singles: matching males to females in dimorphic spiders (Araneidae: Micrathena) using phylogenetic placement and DNA barcoding. Invertebrate Systematics 31: 8–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/is15062

 

2016

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10. Magalhaes ILF, Fernandes LR, Ramírez MJ, Bonaldo AB. 2016. Phylogenetic position and taxonomic review of the Ianduba spiders (Araneae: Corinnidae) endemic to the Brazilian Atlantic rainforest. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny 74: 127–159. Open access

 

9. Magalhaes ILF. 2016. On new or poorly known Australian Filistatidae spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae), including a study on the fine morphology of Wandella. Journal of Natural History 50: 1815–1858. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00222933.2016.1181805

 

8. Brescovit AD, Magalhaes ILF, Cizauskas I. 2016. Three new species of Misionella from northern Brazil (Araneae, Haplogynae, Filistatidae). ZooKeys 589: 71–961.  http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.589.7951 Open access

 

2014

 

7. Magalhaes ILF, Oliveira U, Santos FR, Vidigal THDA, Brescovit AD, Santos AJ. 2014. Strong spatial structure, Pliocene diversification and cryptic diversity in the Neotropical dry forest spider Sicarius cariri. Molecular Ecology 23: 5323–5336. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.12937

 

6. Azevedo GHF, Faleiro BT, Magalhães ILF, Benedetti AR, Oliveira U, Pena-Barbosa JPP, Santos MTT, Vilela PF, Maria M, Santos AJ. 2014. Effectiveness of sampling methods and further sampling for accessing spider diversity: a case study in a Brazilian Atlantic rainforest fragment. Insect Conservation and Diversity 7: 381–391. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/icad.12061

 

2013

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5. Magalhães ILF, Brescovit AD, Santos AJ. 2013. The six-eyed sand spiders of the genus Sicarius (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from the Brazilian Caatinga. Zootaxa 3599: 101–135. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3599.2.1

 

2012

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4. Magalhães ILF, Santos AJ. 2012. Phylogenetic analysis of Micrathena and Chaetacis spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) reveals multiple origins of extreme sexual size dimorphism and long abdominal spines. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 166: 14–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x Open access

 

2011

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3. Magalhães ILF, Santos AJ. 2011. Two new species and taxonomic notes on the Neotropical spiny orb-weaving spiders Micrathena and Chaetacis (Araneae: Araneidae), with remarks on the development of Micrathena excavata. Zootaxa 2983: 39–56.

 

2. Magalhães ILF, Santos AJ. 2011. Description of the male of Pozonia bacillifera (Araneae: Araneidae). Zoologia 28: 112–114. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x Open access

 

2010

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1. Barbosa-Silva A, Soldatos TG, Magalhães ILF, Pavlopoulos GA, Fontaine JF, Andrade-Navarro MA, Schneider R, Ortega JM. LAITOR: Literature Assistant for Identification of Terms co-Occurrences and Relationships. BMC Bioinformatics 11: 70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-3642.2012.00831.x Open access