Some  #arachnews from the Google Scholar alert…

We know very little about spider chromosomes; only a fraction of species (~900/50,000) have been studied. This study of 12 tiny spiders across 8 families found in leaf litter in Brazil helps fill in the gap. https://zoolstud.sinica.edu.tw/Journals/62/62-42.html

The clade shade is real in this paper sorting out the taxonomy of the opilionid family Cosmetidae in the US (and dunking on previous scientists' classifications). Just a reminder that most _Vonones_ species are now under _Libitioides_. https://europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu/index.php/ejt/article/view/2143

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