Barbara York Main

Barbara York Main, Australian arachnologist.

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(List may be incomplete)

Main, B.Y. 1954. Spiders and Opiliones. In: The Archipelago of the Recherche. Australian Geographic Society Reports 1: 37-53. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1957. Biology of aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5: 402–473. DOI: 10.1071/ZO9570402. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1972. The mygalomorph spider genus Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine (Dipluridae) and its relationship to Aname Koch and certain other diplurine genera. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 55: 100-114. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1975. The citrine spider: a new genus of trapdoor spider (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). The Western Australian Naturalist 13: 73–78. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1977. Spiders. In: The Natural History of the Wongan Hills. Western Australian Naturalists Club, Perth: 100-107. Reference page.
Main, B.Y. 1977a. Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 69-72. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1983. Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south Western Australia. Journal of Natural History 17: 923-949. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1985. Further studies on the systematics of ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology (suppl. Ser.) 108: 1-84. Reference page.
Main, B.Y. 1985a. Further studies on Australian Diplurinae: A review of the genera of the Teylini (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 743-759. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1986. Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): A new genus from south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 395-402. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1987. A new genus of clubionoid spider from Western Australia (Arachnida: Araneomorphae). Australian Entomological Magazine 13, 77–81. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 1995. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae). The Victorian Naturalist 112: 202-207. Reference page. .

Main, B.Y. 1996. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: description of a new species of Missulena from southwestern Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 17(4): 355-359. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 2000. Biosystematics of two new species of unusually coloured Australian mygalomorph spiders, Arbanitis (Araneae: Idiopidae), from south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 83: 93-97. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 2004. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three new species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61: 47-55. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 2008. A new species of the mygalomorph spider genus Yilgarnia from the Western Australian wheatbelt (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 321-324. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. & Framenau, V.W. 2009. A new genus of mygalomorph spider from the Great Victoria Desert and neighbouring arid country in south-eastern Western Australia (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 277-285. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.277-285. Reference page.

Main, B.Y. 2012. Description and biogeographic implications of a new species of the Chenistonia maculata group from south-western Western Australia and rediagnosis of Chenistonia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 176-181. Reference page.

Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S.E., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. DOI: 10.1071/IS16065. Reference page.

Harvey, M.S., Hillyer, M.J., Main, B.Y., Moulds, T.A., Raven, R.J., Rix, M.G., Vink, C.J. & Huey, J.A. 2018. Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111. Reference page.
Rix, M.G., Main, B.Y., Raven, R.J. & Harvey, M.S. 2018. Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. The Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1. . Reference page.