Ligia Rosario Benavides Silva

Ligia Rosario Benavides Silva, US arachnologist

• Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052.

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• 14 taxon names authored by Ligia Rosario Benavides Silva

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• & Giribet, G. 2013. A revision of selected clades of Neotropical mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Neogoveidae) with the description of eight new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(1): 1–44. DOI: 10.3099/0027-4100-161.1.1 Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• & Hormiga, G. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 4064(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1. Reference page. 

• Giribet, G., & Merino-Sáinz, I. 2017. The systematics and biogeography of the mite harvestman family Sironidae (Arachnida : Opiliones : Cyphophthalmi) with the description of five new species. Invertebrate Systematics 31: 456–491.DOI: 10.1071/IS16086. Reference page. 
• Wheeler, W.C., Coddington, J.A., Crowley, L.M., Dimitrov, D.S., Goloboff, P.A., Griswold, C.E., Hormiga, Prendini, L., Ramírez, M.J., Sierwald, P., Almeida-Silva, L.M., Álvarez-Padilla, Arnedo, M.A., , Benjamin, S.P., Bond, J.S., Grismado, C.J., Hasan, E., Hedin, M., Izquierdo, M.A., Labarque, F.M., Ledford, J., Lopardo, L., Maddison, W.P., Miller, J.A., Piacentini, L.N., Platnick, N.I., Polotow, D., Silva-Dávila, D., Scharff, N., Szűts, T., Ubick, D., Vink, C.J., Wood, H.M. & Zhang, J.X. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33: 574–616. DOI: 10.1111/cla.12182 . Reference page. 

• , Hormiga, G. & Giribet, G. 2019. Phylogeny, evolution and systematic revision of the mite harvestman family Neogoveidae (Opiliones Cyphophthalmi). Invertebrate Systematics 33(1): 101–180. DOI: 10.1071/IS18018 Reference page. 
• , Hormiga, G. & Giribet, G. 2019. Corrigendum to: "Phylogeny, evolution and systematic revision of the mite harvestman family Neogoveidae (Opiliones Cyphophthalmi)". Invertebrate Systematics 34(3): 343. DOI: 10.1071/IS18018_CO Reference page. 

• & Hormiga, G. 2020. A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2): 144-191. DOI: 10.1071/IS19032 . Reference page. 

• , Pinto-da-Rocha, R. & Giribet, G. 2021. The Phylogeny and Evolution of the Flashiest of the Armored Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones). Systematic Biology 70(4): 648–659. DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa080 Reference page.