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Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Caicedo-Quiroga L, May-Collado LJ, Pálsson S. 2023. Deep mtDNA sequence divergences and possible species radiation of whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae, Phrynus/Paraphrynus) among Caribbean oceanic and cave islands. Taxonomy 3: 133-147.
Agnarsson I. 2023. Grand challenges in research on arachnid diversity, conservation, and biogeography. Frontiers in Arachnid Science 2:1101141.
Chamberland L, Agnarsson I, Quayle IL, Ruddy T, Starrett J, Bond JE. 2022. Biogeography and eye size evolution of the ogre-faced spiders. Scientific Reports 12: 17769.
*Shapiro L, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2022. Single island endemism despite repeated dispersal in Caribbbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae): an updated phylogeographic analysis. Diversity 14: 128.
*Cala-Riquelme F, Wiencek P, Flores-Daza E, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2022. Island-to-island vicariance, founder-event and within-area speciation, the biogeographical history of the Antillattus clade in the Caribbean (Salticidae: Euophryini). Diversity 14: 224.
Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2021. Biogeography of Long-Jawed Spiders Reveals Multiple Colonization of the Caribbean. Diversity 13: 622
Dupérré N, **Francisco C, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ. 2020. The spider genus Heteroonops (Aranea: Oonopidae) from Dominican Republic, the discovery of ten new species. Zookeys 964: 1-30.
**LeMay GA, Agnarsson I. 2020. New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America. Zookeys 915: 17-24.
*Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2020. Caribbean golden orbweaving spiders maintain gene flow with North America. Zoologica Scripta 49: 210-221.
Agnarsson I, Ali J, Barrington D. 2019. Vicariance Biogeography. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199830060-0225
Tong Y, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2019. Huntsmen of the Caribbean: multiple tests of the GAARlandia hypothesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 259-268
Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford G, Kuntner M. 2019. Biogeographic history of Cyrtognatha spiders reveals a single mid-Miocene overwater colonization of the Caribbean archipelago. Scientific Reports 9: 397
*Chamberland L, *McHugh A, **Kechejian S, Binford GJ, Bond J, Coddington JA, Dolman G, Hamilton C, Harvey MS, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2018. From Gondwana to GAARlandia: global biogeography of ogre-faced spiders (Deinopidae) mirrors geologic history. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2442-2457.
*Cala-Riquelme F, Quijano-Cuervo L, Sabogal-González A, Agnarsson I. 2018. New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 4442: 413-426.
Chapin KJ, Winkler DE, **Wiencek P, Agnarsson I. 2018. Island biogeography and ecological modeling of the amblypygid Phrynus marginemaculatus in the Florida Keys archipelago. Ecology and Evolution 8: 9139-9151
Agnarsson I, **Van Patten C, **Sargeant L, **Chomitz B, **Dziki A, Binford G. 2018. A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’ – with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 758-790.
Luo Y, Agnarsson I. 2018. Global mtDNA genetic structure and and hypothesized invasion history of a major pest of citrus, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae). Ecology and Evolution 2017; 00:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3680
Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2017. DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region. PeerJ 5:e3516
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3516
Cala-Riquelme F, Gutiérrez-Estrada M, Florez-Daza AE, Agnarsson I. 2017. A new six-eyed sand spider Sicarius Keyserling, 1880 (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from Colombia, with information on its natural history. Arachnology 17: 193-199.
Agnarsson I, **LeQuier S, Kuntner M, Cheng R-C, Binford GJ. 2016. Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae: Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. Zookeys 625: 25-44
**Cosgrove JG, Agnarsson I, Harvey MS, Binford GJ. 2016. Pseudoscorpion diversity and distribution in the West Indies: sequence data confirms single island endemism for some clades, but not others. Journal of Arachnology 44: 257-271
*Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of the forensically important genus Cochliomyia (Diptera: Calliphoridae). ZooKeys 609: 107-120
Agnarsson I, Gotelli NJ, **Agostini D, Kuntner M. 2016. Limited role of character displacement in the coexistence of congeneric Anelosimus spiders in a Madagascan montane forest. Ecography 39: 743-753
*Xu X, Liu F, Chen J, Ono H, Agnarsson I, Li D, Kuntner M. 2016. Pre-Pleistocene geological and climatic events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian Margins. Journal of Biogeography 43: 1004–1019
**Dziki A, Binford GJ, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2015. Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean – a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’. PeerJ 3:e1422; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1422
Esposito LA, **Bloom T, **Caicedo L, **Alicia-Serrano A, **Sánchez-Ruíz J, Laura J. May-Collado, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2015. Islands within islands: diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi, Phrynus) in Caribbean caves. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 107-117.
Agnarsson I, **Jencik BB, **Veve GM, *Hanitriniaina S, **Agostini D, *Goh SP, Pruitt J, Kuntner M. 2015. A radiation of subsocial Anelosimus spiders on Madagascar: remarkable local richness and endemism. Zookeys 509: 13-52
Gregorič M, Blackledge TA, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2015. A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae: Caerostris). Journal of Arachnology 43: 293-312
Agnarsson I, Cheng RC, Kuntner M. 2014. A Multi-Clade Test Supports the Intermediate Dispersal Model of Biogeography. PLoS One 9(1) e86780 (download)
McHugh A, Yablonsky C, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae) suggests multiple colonization events and single island endemism. Invertebrate Systematics. Online Early.
Bloom T, Binford G, Alayon G, Esposito L, Peterson I, Nishida A, Loubet-Senear K, Agnarsson I. 2014. Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave. Journal of Arachnology forthcoming
Cala-Riquelme F, Agnarsson I. 2014. New species of Otiothops MacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae: Otiothiopinae) from Cuba. Arachnology forthcoming.
Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Kuntner M. 2013. Systematics – progress in the study of spider diversity and evolution. In: Spider Research in the 21st Century (Ed. Penney D).
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2012. The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands. In Kesara Anamthawat-Jonsson (Ed.): Current Topics in Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems. Rijeka: In Tech Publishers, pp. 33-82. ISBN 978-953-51-0217-5
Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Phylogeography of a successful aerial disperser: the golden orb spider Nephila on Indian Ocean islands. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 119.
Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 477-488
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Coddington J, Blackledge TA. 2010. Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocial Anelosimus spider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae) Zoologica Scripta 39: 75-87
Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Caicedo-Quiroga L, May-Collado LJ, Pálsson S. 2023. Deep mtDNA sequence divergences and possible species radiation of whip spiders (Arachnida, Amblypygi, Phrynidae, Phrynus/Paraphrynus) among Caribbean oceanic and cave islands. Taxonomy 3: 133-147.
Agnarsson I. 2023. Grand challenges in research on arachnid diversity, conservation, and biogeography. Frontiers in Arachnid Science 2:1101141.
Chamberland L, Agnarsson I, Quayle IL, Ruddy T, Starrett J, Bond JE. 2022. Biogeography and eye size evolution of the ogre-faced spiders. Scientific Reports 12: 17769.
*Shapiro L, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2022. Single island endemism despite repeated dispersal in Caribbbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae): an updated phylogeographic analysis. Diversity 14: 128.
*Cala-Riquelme F, Wiencek P, Flores-Daza E, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2022. Island-to-island vicariance, founder-event and within-area speciation, the biogeographical history of the Antillattus clade in the Caribbean (Salticidae: Euophryini). Diversity 14: 224.
Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2021. Biogeography of Long-Jawed Spiders Reveals Multiple Colonization of the Caribbean. Diversity 13: 622
Dupérré N, **Francisco C, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ. 2020. The spider genus Heteroonops (Aranea: Oonopidae) from Dominican Republic, the discovery of ten new species. Zookeys 964: 1-30.
**LeMay GA, Agnarsson I. 2020. New species of smiley-faced spider Spintharus (Araneae, Theridiidae) from Brazil, and comments on unobserved diversity in South America. Zookeys 915: 17-24.
*Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2020. Caribbean golden orbweaving spiders maintain gene flow with North America. Zoologica Scripta 49: 210-221.
Agnarsson I, Ali J, Barrington D. 2019. Vicariance Biogeography. Oxford Bibliographies in Ecology. doi: 10.1093/obo/9780199830060-0225
Tong Y, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2019. Huntsmen of the Caribbean: multiple tests of the GAARlandia hypothesis. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 130: 259-268
Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford G, Kuntner M. 2019. Biogeographic history of Cyrtognatha spiders reveals a single mid-Miocene overwater colonization of the Caribbean archipelago. Scientific Reports 9: 397
*Chamberland L, *McHugh A, **Kechejian S, Binford GJ, Bond J, Coddington JA, Dolman G, Hamilton C, Harvey MS, Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2018. From Gondwana to GAARlandia: global biogeography of ogre-faced spiders (Deinopidae) mirrors geologic history. Journal of Biogeography 45: 2442-2457.
*Cala-Riquelme F, Quijano-Cuervo L, Sabogal-González A, Agnarsson I. 2018. New species of Otiothopinae (Araneae: Palpimanidae) from Colombia. Zootaxa 4442: 413-426.
Chapin KJ, Winkler DE, **Wiencek P, Agnarsson I. 2018. Island biogeography and ecological modeling of the amblypygid Phrynus marginemaculatus in the Florida Keys archipelago. Ecology and Evolution 8: 9139-9151
Agnarsson I, **Van Patten C, **Sargeant L, **Chomitz B, **Dziki A, Binford G. 2018. A radiation of the ornate Caribbean ‘smiley-faced spiders’ – with descriptions of 15 new species (Araneae, Theridiidae, Spintharus). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 182: 758-790.
Luo Y, Agnarsson I. 2018. Global mtDNA genetic structure and and hypothesized invasion history of a major pest of citrus, Diaphorina citri (Hemiptera: Liviidae). Ecology and Evolution 2017; 00:1–10. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.3680
Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2017. DNA-barcoding of forensically important blow flies (Diptera: Calliphoridae) in the Caribbean Region. PeerJ 5:e3516
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.3516
Cala-Riquelme F, Gutiérrez-Estrada M, Florez-Daza AE, Agnarsson I. 2017. A new six-eyed sand spider Sicarius Keyserling, 1880 (Araneae: Haplogynae: Sicariidae) from Colombia, with information on its natural history. Arachnology 17: 193-199.
Agnarsson I, **LeQuier S, Kuntner M, Cheng R-C, Binford GJ. 2016. Phylogeography of a good Caribbean disperser: Argiope argentata (Araneae: Araneidae) and a new ‘cryptic’ species from Cuba. Zookeys 625: 25-44
**Cosgrove JG, Agnarsson I, Harvey MS, Binford GJ. 2016. Pseudoscorpion diversity and distribution in the West Indies: sequence data confirms single island endemism for some clades, but not others. Journal of Arachnology 44: 257-271
*Yusseff-Vanegas S, Agnarsson I. 2016. Molecular phylogeny of the forensically important genus Cochliomyia (Diptera: Calliphoridae). ZooKeys 609: 107-120
Agnarsson I, Gotelli NJ, **Agostini D, Kuntner M. 2016. Limited role of character displacement in the coexistence of congeneric Anelosimus spiders in a Madagascan montane forest. Ecography 39: 743-753
*Xu X, Liu F, Chen J, Ono H, Agnarsson I, Li D, Kuntner M. 2016. Pre-Pleistocene geological and climatic events shaping diversification and distribution of primitively segmented spiders on East Asian Margins. Journal of Biogeography 43: 1004–1019
**Dziki A, Binford GJ, Coddington JA, Agnarsson I. 2015. Spintharus flavidus in the Caribbean – a 30 million year biogeographical history and radiation of a ‘widespread species’. PeerJ 3:e1422; DOI 10.7717/peerj.1422
Esposito LA, **Bloom T, **Caicedo L, **Alicia-Serrano A, **Sánchez-Ruíz J, Laura J. May-Collado, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2015. Islands within islands: diversification of tailless whip spiders (Amblypygi, Phrynus) in Caribbean caves. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 93: 107-117.
Agnarsson I, **Jencik BB, **Veve GM, *Hanitriniaina S, **Agostini D, *Goh SP, Pruitt J, Kuntner M. 2015. A radiation of subsocial Anelosimus spiders on Madagascar: remarkable local richness and endemism. Zookeys 509: 13-52
Gregorič M, Blackledge TA, Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2015. A molecular phylogeny of bark spiders reveals new species from Africa and Madagascar (Araneae: Araneidae: Caerostris). Journal of Arachnology 43: 293-312
Agnarsson I, Cheng RC, Kuntner M. 2014. A Multi-Clade Test Supports the Intermediate Dispersal Model of Biogeography. PLoS One 9(1) e86780 (download)
McHugh A, Yablonsky C, Binford G, Agnarsson I. 2014. Molecular phylogenetics of Caribbean Micrathena (Araneae: Araneidae) suggests multiple colonization events and single island endemism. Invertebrate Systematics. Online Early.
Bloom T, Binford G, Alayon G, Esposito L, Peterson I, Nishida A, Loubet-Senear K, Agnarsson I. 2014. Discovery of two new species of eyeless spiders within a single Hispaniola cave. Journal of Arachnology forthcoming
Cala-Riquelme F, Agnarsson I. 2014. New species of Otiothops MacLeay (Araneae: Palpimanidae: Otiothiopinae) from Cuba. Arachnology forthcoming.
Agnarsson I, Coddington JA, Kuntner M. 2013. Systematics – progress in the study of spider diversity and evolution. In: Spider Research in the 21st Century (Ed. Penney D).
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M. 2012. The Generation of a Biodiversity Hotspot: Biogeography and Phylogeography of the Western Indian Ocean Islands. In Kesara Anamthawat-Jonsson (Ed.): Current Topics in Phylogenetics and Phylogeography of Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems. Rijeka: In Tech Publishers, pp. 33-82. ISBN 978-953-51-0217-5
Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Phylogeography of a successful aerial disperser: the golden orb spider Nephila on Indian Ocean islands. BMC Evolutionary Biology 11: 119.
Kuntner M, Agnarsson I. 2011. Biogeography and diversification of hermit spiders on Indian Ocean islands (Nephilidae: Nephilengys). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59: 477-488
Agnarsson I, Kuntner M, Coddington J, Blackledge TA. 2010. Shifting continents, not behaviours: independent colonization of solitary and subsocial Anelosimus spider lineages on Madagascar (Araneae, Theridiidae) Zoologica Scripta 39: 75-87