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**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 in press
*Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2020. Caribbean golden orbweaving spiders maintain gene flow with North America. Zoologica Scripta in press
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
**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 in press
*Čandek K, Agnarsson I, Binford GJ, Kuntner M. 2020. Caribbean golden orbweaving spiders maintain gene flow with North America. Zoologica Scripta in press
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