Francesco Ballarin

Francesco Ballarin, arachnologist, Japan

• Systematic Zoology Laboratory, Department of Biological Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, 1-1 Minami-Osawa, Hachioji-shi, 192-0397, Tokyo, Japan.
• Department of Zoology, Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I-37129, Verona, Italy.
• E-mail: [email protected]

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• 67 taxon names authored by Francesco Ballarin

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• Marusik, Y.M. & 2011. A new species of Draconarius Ovtchinnikov, 1999 (Araneae, Amaurobioidea, Coelotinae) from northern Pakistan. Zootaxa 2739: 27–32. Preview Reference page. 

• & Li, S.Q. 2015: Three new genera of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Tibet and Yunnan, China. Zoological Systematics, 40(2): 179–190. Reference page. 

• Lin, Y-C., & Li, S-Q. 2016. A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species. ZooKeys 627: 1–168. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.627.8629. Reference page. 

• & Pantini, P. 2017. A new species of Amaurobius C.L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from Apennine Mountains (Italy) with the description of the male of A. pavesii Pesarini, 1991. Zootaxa 4276(4): 479–502. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.4.2. Reference page. 

• , Pantini, P. & Gobbi, M. 2018. Elevation to species level and redescription of Xysticus alpinus Kulczyński, 1887 stat. n. (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa 4500(2): 271–280. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.2.7. Reference page. 

• & Pantini, P. 2020. Three new species and new records of the genus Centromerus (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from Italy. European Journal of Taxonomy 660: 1–23. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.660. . Reference page. 
• Steibl, S., , Nadolny, A.A. & Laforsch, C. 2020. First record of a wolf spider, Draposa lyrivulva (Bösenberg & Strand 1906) (Araneae: Lycosidae), from the Maldivian Islands, Indian Ocean. Acta Arachnologica 69(2): 115-119. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.69.115. . Reference page. 

• & Yamasaki, T. 2021. Nihonella gen. nov., a new troglophilic genus of dwarf spiders from Japan with a discussion on its phylogenetic position within the subfamily Erigoninae (Araneae, Linyphiidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 733: 1–18. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.733.1215. . Reference page. 
• Lin, Y.J., Yan, X.Y., Li, S.Q., & Chen, H.F. 2021. Five new species of Macrothele Ausserer, 1871 from China (Araneae, Macrothelidae). ZooKeys 1052: 1-23. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1052.68623. . Reference page. 

• & Eguchi, K. 2022. Taxonomic notes on leptonetid spiders from the Ryukyu Archipelago with the description of two new species and the first record of the genus Longileptoneta from Japan (Araneae: Leptonetidae). Zootaxa 5213(4): 371–387. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5213.4.3. . Reference page. 
• & Pantini, P. 2022. An unexpected occurrence: discovery of the genus Cybaeopsis Strand, 1907 in Europe with the description of a new species from Italy (Arachnida, Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 98(2): 377-385. DOI: 10.3897/zse.98.90858. . Reference page. 
• & Pantini, P. 2022a. A synthesis of the genus Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch, 2001 in Italy, with a description of two new species (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Micronetinae). Arachnology 19(sp1): 302-315. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.302. . Reference page. 
• Ramírez, M.J., Magalhaes de, I.L.F., Pizarro-Araya, J., , Marusik, Y.M. & Eskov, K.Y. 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. . Reference page. 

• & Eguchi, K. 2023. Integrative taxonomic revision of the genera Nesticella and Howaia in Japan with the description of five new species (Araneae, Nesticidae, Nesticellini). Zookeys 1174ː 219–272. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1174.101251 Reference page. 
• Mirzaee, Z., Sadeghi, S., , Schmitt, T., Simões, M. & Wiemers, M. 2023. Life history and biogeography of the enigmatic mantid Nilomantis floweri (Mantodea, Nanomantidae). Zookeys 1173ː 275–295. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1173.107204 Reference page. 
• Zhao, Z., Li, B., Zhang, X-Q., , Pham, D-S. & Li, S. 2023. Baiyuerius gen. nov., a new genus of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from China and Vietnam. Zookeys 1165ː 43–60. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1165.101946 Reference page. 

• , Liao, H.C., Touyama, Z. & Eguchi, K. 2025. Review of the spider genus Solenysa Simon, 1894 in Western Japan and Central Ryukyu with the description of three new species (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 1232: 97–130. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1232.142629 Reference page.