Publications

2010

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Drivers of diversity in Macaronesian spiders and the role of species extinctions.
Cardoso, P., Arnedo, M.A., Triantis, K. and Borges, P.A.V.
J Biogeography in press. (2010).

2009


Higher level phylogenetics of linyphiid spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence.
Arnedo, M.A., Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G.
Cladistics 25: 231–262 (2009)

Mechanical Behavior of Silk During the Evolution of Orb-Web Spinning Spiders .
Elices, M., Plaza, G.R., Arnedo, M.A., Perez-Rigueiro, J., Torres, F.G. & Guinea, G.V. 
Biomacromolecules 10:, 1904–1910 (2009)

Systematics and phylogeography of the Dysdera erythrina species complex (Araneae, Dysderidae) in Sardinia.
Arnedo, M.A., Gasparo, F. and Opatova, V.
ZooKeys 16: 319-345. (2009).

Spiders
Arnedo, M.A.
In: Gillespie, R.G. and Clague, D.A., Eds., Encyclopedia of Islands. University of California Press, Berkeley, USA, pp. 861-865 (2009)

2008

 
Biogeographic and evolutionary patterns in the Macaronesian shield-backed katydid genus Calliphona Krauss, 1892 (Orthoptera: Tettigoniidae) and allies as inferred from phylogenetic analyses of multiple mitochondrial genes.  
Arnedo, M.A., Martín de Abreu, S., Oromí, P. & Ribera, C.
2008. Systematic Entomology 33: 145–158 (2008)

Patterns of diversification on old volcanic islands as revealed by the woodlouse-hunter spider genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in the eastern Canary Islands.     
Macías-Hernández, N., Oromí, P. & Arnedo, M.A.. 2008.
Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 94: 589–615 (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.
Dimitrov, D.; Arnedo, M.A. & Ribera, C. 2008.  
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48, 596-614 (2008)

2007

 
Phylogeny of the parasitic wasp subfamily Charipinae (Hymenoptera, Cynipoidea, Figitidae).     
Paretas-Martínez, J., Arnedo, M. A., Melika, G., Selfa, J., Seco-Fernández, M. V., Fülöp, D. & Pujade-Villar, J.
Zoologica Scripta 36(2): 153-172 (2007)

Mitochondrial markers reveal deep population subdivision in the European protected spider Macrothele calpeiana (Walckenaer, 1805) (Araneae, Hexathelidae).    
Arnedo, M. A. & Ferrández, M. A.
Conservation Genetics 36(4): 337-352 (2007)

Molecular Insights into the phylogenetic structure of the spider genus Theridion (Araneae, Theridiidae) and the origin of the Hawaiian Theridion-like fauna.    
Arnedo, M. A., Agnarsson, I. & Gillespie, R. G.
Zoologica Scripta 36(4): 337-352  (2007)

Living on the edge: demographic and phylogeograpic patterns in the woodlouse-hunter spider Dysdera lancerotensis Simon, 1907 on the eastern volcanic ridge of the Canary Islands.
Bidegaray-Batista, L.; Macías-Hernández, N.; Oromí, P. & Arnedo, M.A.
Molecular Ecology 16: 3198–3214. (2007)

The dark side of an island radiation: Systematics and evolutionary patterns of troglobitic spiders of the genus Dysdera (Araneae, Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands.
Arnedo, M.A., C. Múrria, Macías-Hernández, N., Oromí, P. & Ribera, C. 2007.
Invertebrate Systematics, 21: 623–660 (2007)