Bernhard A. Huber

Bernhard A. Huber (born 1967), Austrian arachnologist (Pholcidae). (1967-)

• The second name is unknown. He don't want give his second name. His answer is that the second name knows only his wife and mom.
• Alexander Koenig Research Museum of Zoology, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany
• E-mail: b.huber@leibniz-lib.de

Taxon names authored

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• 687 taxon names authored by Bernhard A. Huber

Publications

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1995

• Huber, B.A. 1995a. The retrolateral tibial apophysis in spiders-shaped by sexual selection?. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 113: 151-163. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 1995b. Genital morphology and copulatory mechanics in Anyphaena accentuata (Anyphaenidae) and Clubiona pallidula (Clubionidae: Araneae). Journal of Zoology, London 235: 689-702. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 1995c. Copulatory mechanism in Holocnemus pluchei and Pholcus opilionoides, with notes on male cheliceral apophyses and stridulatory organs in Pholcidae (Araneae). Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 76: 291-300. Reference page. 

1997

• Huber, B.A. 1997. Redescriptions of Eugène Simon's neotropical pholcids (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoosystema 19: 573-612. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 1997a. On the distinction between Modisimus and Hedypsilus (Araneae, Pholcidae), with notes on behavior and natural history. Zoologica Scripta 25: 233–240. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00164.x. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 1997b. On American 'Micromerys' and Metagonia (Araneae, Pholcidae), with notes on natural history and genital mechanics. Zoologica Scripta 25(4): 341–363. DOI: doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.1996.tb00170.x. . Reference page. 

1998

• Huber, B.A. 1998c. Report on some pholcid spiders collected in Guatemala and Honduras (Araneae, Pholcidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 105(1): 49-80. BHL. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 1998d. The pholcid spiders of Costa Rica (Araneae: Pholcidae). Revista de Biología Tropical 45: 1583-1634. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Pérez-González, A. 1998. Leptopholcus delicatulus (Araneae, Pholcidae) is a valid name. The Journal of Arachnology 26(2): 251–256. PDF. Reference page. 

1999

• Wunderlich, J. 1999b. Eine bisher unbekannte cavernicole Art der Zitterspinnen von La Palma, Kanarische Inseln (Arachnida: Araneae: Pholcidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 109: 71-73. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Deeleman-Reinhold, C.L. & Pérez-González, A. 1999. The spider genus Crossopriza (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the New World. American Museum Novitates 3262: 1–10. hdl: 2246/3105 . Reference page. 

2000

• Huber, B.A. 2000: New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 254: 1-348. Reference page. 

2001

• Huber, B.A. 2001: The pholcids of Australia (Araneae; Pholcidae): taxonomy, biogeography, and relationships. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 260: 1-144. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0090(2001)260<0001:TPOAAP>2.0.CO;2 . hdl: 2246/1438 . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Pérez-González, A. 2001. A new genus of pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) endemic to western Cuba, with a case of female genitalic dimorphism. American Museum Novitates 3329: 1-23. DOI: 10.1206/0003-0082(2001)329<0001:ANGOPS>2.0.CO;2. . Reference page. 

2002

• Huber, B.A. 2002a. Ninetis russellsmithi n. sp., an unusual new pholcid spider species from Malawi (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Insect Science 2(4): 1-5. DOI: 10.1673/031.002.0401. . Reference page. 

2003

• Huber, B.A. 2003. High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137(4): 555–619. DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00053.x. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2003a. Cladistic analysis of Malagasy pholcid spiders reveals generic level endemism: Revision of Zatavua n. gen. and Paramicromerys Millot (Pholcidae, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137(2): 261-318. DOI: 10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00046.x. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2003. Ibotyporanga Mello-Leitão: tropical spiders in Brazilian semi-arid habitats (Araneae: Pholcidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 34(1): 15–20. DOI: 10.1163/187631203788964926 . Reference page. 

2005

• Huber, B.A. 2005. Revision of the genus Spermophora Hentz in Southeast Asia and on the Pacific islands, with descriptions of three new genera (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zoologische Mededelingen 79: 61-114. ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Huber, B. A. 2005a. High species diversity, male-female coevolution, and metaphyly in southeast Asian pholcid spiders: the case of Belisana Thorell 1898 (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoologica 155: 1–126. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2005b. Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider genus Carapoia González-Sponga (Araneae: Pholcidae), with descriptions of new species from Brazil's Atlantic forest. Invertebrate Systematics 19(6): 541-556. DOI: 10.1071/IS05038. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Benjamin, S.P. 2005. The pholcid spiders from Sri Lanka: redescription of Pholcus ceylonicus and description of a new genus (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 39: 3305-3319. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Pérez-González, A. & Baptista, R.L.C. 2005. Leptopholcus (Araneae: Pholcidae) in continental America: rare relicts in low precipitation areas. Bonner Zoologische Beiträge 53(1-2): 99-107. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Rheims, C.A. & Brescovit, A.D. 2005. Two new species of litter-dwelling Metagonia spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae) document both rapid and slow genital evolution. Acta Zoologica, Stockholm 86(1): 33-40. DOI: 10.1111/j.0001-7272.2005.00184.x. . Reference page. 

2006

• Huber, B.A. & Wunderlich, J. 2006. Fossil and extant species of the genus Leptopholcus in the Dominican Republic, with the first cases of eggpar asitism in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 40(41–43): 2341–2360. DOI: 10.1080/00222930601051196. . Reference page. 

2007

• Huber, B.A. 2007: Two new genera of small, six-eyed pholcid spiders from West Africa, and first record of Spermophorides for mainland Africa (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 1635: 23–43. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & El-Hennawy, H.K. 2007. On Old World ninetine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae), with a new genus and species and the first record for Madagascar. Zootaxa 1635: 45–53. Abstract & excerpt. . Reference page. 

2009

• Huber, B.A. 2009. Four new generic and 14 new specific synonymies in Pholcidae, and transfer of Pholcoides Roewer to Filistatidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 1970: 64–68. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1970.1.3 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2009a. Life on leaves: leaf-dwelling pholcids of Guinea, with emphasis on Crossopriza cylindrogaster Simon, a spider with inverted resting position, pseudo-eyes, lampshade web, and tetrahedral egg-sac (Araneae: Pholcidae). Journal of Natural History 43(39-40): 2491-2523. DOI: 10.1080/00222930903207876. . Reference page. 

2011

• Huber, B.A. 2011: Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae). Bonner zoologische Monographien 58: 1- 514. full article (BHL). Reference page. 

2012

• Huber, J.H. 2012. Description of Yssolebias, nov. gen., a new monotypic fish genus for an old and phantom species of Colombia. Killi-Data Series 2012, 26–31. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2012a: Revision and cladistic analysis of the Afrotropical endemic genus Smeringopus Simon, 1890 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3461: 1–138. Preview. Reference page. 

2013

• Huber, B.A. 2013a. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Guineo-Congolian spider genus Smeringopina Kraus (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 3713(1): 001–160. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3713.1.1. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Kwapong, P. 2013. West African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of five new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 59: 1-44. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2013.59. Reference page. 

2014

• Huber, B.A., Carvalho, L.S. & Benjamin, S.P. 2014. On the New World spiders previously misplaced in Leptopholcus: molecular and morphological analyses and descriptions of four new species (Araneae : Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 28: 432-450. DOI: 10.1071/IS13050. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Colmenares, P.A. & Ramírez, M.J. 2014. Fourteen new generic and ten new specific synonymies in Pholcidae (Araneae), and transfer of Mystes Bristowe to Filistatidae. Zootaxa 3847(3): 413–422. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3847.3.5. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Dimitrov, D. 2014. Slow genital and genetic but rapid non-genital and ecological differentiation in a pair of spider species (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 253(5): 394-403. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2014.04.001. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Le Gall, P. & Mavoungou, J.F. 2014. Pholcid spiders from the Lower Guinean region of Central Africa: an overview, with descriptions of seven new species (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 81: 1-46. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2014.81. Reference page. 

2015

• Huber, B.A. 2015: Small scale endemism in Brazil’s Atlantic Forest: 14 new species of Mesabolivar (Araneae, Pholcidae), each known from a single locality. Zootaxa 3942(1): 1–60. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3942.1.1. Preview ISBN 978-1-77557-673-0 (paperback) ISBN 978-1-77557-674-7 (Online edition)Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Nuñeza, O.M. 2015. Evolution of genital asymmetry, exaggerated eye stalks, and extreme palpal elongation in Panjange spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 169: 1-46. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.169. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Nuñeza, O.M. & Leh Moi Ung, C. 2015. Revision, phylogeny, and microhabitat shifts in the Southeast Asian spider genus Aetana (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 162: 1-78. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.162. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Petcharad, B. & Bumrungsri, S. 2015. Revision of the enigmatic Southeast Asian spider genus Savarna (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 160: 1-23. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.160. Reference page. 

2016

• Huber, B.A. 2016. Spider diversity and endemism in a South American hotspot: 20 new species of Carapoia (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Brazil’s Atlantic Forest. Zootaxa 4177(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4177.1.1. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2016. A new genus of ground and litter-dwelling pholcine spiders from Sarawak (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 186: 1–15. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.186 Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Koh, J.K.H., Ghazali, A.R.M., Braima, K.A., Nuñeza, O.M., Leh Moi Ung, C. & Petcharad, B. 2016. New leaf- and litter-dwelling species of the genus Pholcus from Southeast Asia (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 200: 1-45. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.200. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Petcharad, B., Leh Moi Ung, C., Koh, J.K.H. & Ghazali, A.R.M. 2016. The Southeast Asian Pholcus halabala species group (Araneae, Pholcidae): new data from field observations and ultrastructure. European Journal of Taxonomy 190: 1-55. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.190. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Leh Moi Ung, C. 2016. The Panjange nigrifrons group in Borneo (Araneae: Pholcidae): high diversity in Sarawak, apparent absence in Sabah. European Journal of Taxonomy 184: 1-32. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2016.184. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Nuñeza, O.M. & Leh Moi Ung, C. 2016. The Philippine hair wax spiders and their relatives: revision of the Pholcus bicornutus species group (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 225: 1-34. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2017

• Aharon, S., Huber, B.A. & Gavish-Regev, E. 2013. Daddy-long-leg giants: revision of the spider genus Artema Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 376: 1-57. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2017.376 . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2017. Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4219(1): 1–63. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Arias, Q.C. 2017. Revision of the Venezuelan spider genus Stenosfemuraia González-Sponga, with new generic and specific synonymies (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4341(4): 495–508. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4341.4.3. Reference page. 

2018

• Huber, B.A. 2018. The South American spider genera Mesabolivar and Carapoia (Araneae, Pholcidae): new species and a framework for redrawing generic limits. Zootaxa 4395(1): 1–178. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4395.1.1 Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. 2018. Cave-dwelling pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae): a review. Subterranean Biology, 26: 1–18. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.26.26430 Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Eberle, J. & Dimitrov, D. 2018. The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae). ZooKeys 789: 51–101. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.789.22781 Reference page. 
• Johnson, N.F., Chen, H-Y. & Huber, B. 2018. New species of Idris Förster (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea) from southeast Asia, parasitoids of the eggs of pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zookeys, 811: 65–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.811.29725 Reference page. 

2019

• Huber, B.A. 2019. The pholcid spiders of Sri Lanka (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4550(1): 001–057. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4550.1.1. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Carvalho, L.S. 2019. Filling the gaps: descriptions of unnamed species included in the latest molecular phylogeny of Pholcidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4546(1): 001–096. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4546.1.1. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Caspar, K.R. & Eberle, J. 2019. New species reveal unexpected interspecific microhabitat diversity in the genus Uthina Simon, 1893 (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 33(1): 181-207. DOI: 10.1071/IS18002. Reference page. 

2020

• Huber, B.A. 2020. Revision of the spider genus Hoplopholcus Kulczyński (Araneae, Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4726(1): 001–094. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4726.1.1. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A. & Villarreal, O. 2020. On Venezuelan pholcid spiders (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 718: 1–317. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.718.1101. . Reference page. 

2021

• Huber, B.A. 2021. First Northwest African species of the spider genus Artema, from caves in Morocco, with notes on body size in pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 4984(1): 324–334. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.23. . Reference page. 

2022

• Huber, B.A. 2022. Revisions of Holocnemus and Crossopriza: the spotted-leg clade of Smeringopinae (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 795: 1–241. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2022.795.1663. . Reference page. 

2023

• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Dupérré, N., Astrin, J. & Herrera, M. 2023. Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 909: 1–63. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.909.2351. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Král, J., Ávila-Herrera, I.M. & Izquierdo, M.A. 2023. Revision of the South American Ninetinae genus Guaranita (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 900: 32–80. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.900.2301. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Valdez-Mondragón, A., Král, J., Ávila-Herrera, I.M. & Izquierdo, M.A. 2023. Short-legged daddy-long-leg spiders in North America: the genera Pholcophora and Tolteca (Araneae, Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 880: 1–89. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.880.2173. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Dupérré, N., Herrera, M. & Inclán, D.J. 2023. Humpback spiders from Ecuador: relationships, prosoma ‘inflation’ and genital asymmetry (Araneae: Pholcidae: Mecolaesthus). Invertebrate Systematics 37(2): 117-151. DOI: 10.1071/IS22052. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Clark, H.L. & Cazanove, G. 2023d. First blind daddy long-legs spiders from Australia and Réunion (Araneae, Pholcidae). Subterranean Biology 46: 1-19. DOI: 10.3897/subtbiol.46.105798. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Dupérré, N., Astrin, J. & Herrera, M. 2023e. Andean giants: Priscula spiders from Ecuador, with notes on species groups and egg-sac troglomorphism (Araneae: Pholcidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 909: 1–63. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2023.909.2351. . Reference page. 

2024

• Huber, B.A. & Meng, G. 2024. Old World Micropholcus spiders, with first records of acrocerid parasitoids in Pholcidae (Araneae). ZooKeys 1213: 95–182. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1213.133178 Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Cabra-García, J. & Carvalho, L.S. 2024. Thriving in dry conditions: on the Neotropical spider genus Galapa (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 5419(3): 301–347. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.3.1. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Dederichs, T.M., Michalik, P., Forman, M. & Král, J. 2024a. Castaways: the Leeward Antilles endemic spider genus Papiamenta (Araneae: Pholcidae). Invertebrate Systematics 38(IS23052): 1-32. DOI: 10.1071/IS23052. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L., Král, J., Ávilla-Herrera, I.M. & Carvalho, L.S. 2024b. Diamonds in the rough: Ibotyporanga (Araneae, Pholcidae) spiders in semi-arid Neotropical environments. European Journal of Taxonomy 963: 1–169. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.963.2687. Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Meng, G.L. & Valdez-Mondragón, A. 2024. Notes on Chisosa (Araneae, Pholcidae), with the description of a new species from Mexico. Zootaxa 5419(2): 217–244. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5419.2.3. . Reference page. 
• Huber, B.A., Szymański, H. & Bennett-West, A. 2024. ZooKeys 1214: 77–90. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1214.130592 Reference page. 

2025

• Huber, B.A. & Meng, G. 2025. Like grains of sand: Ninetis spiders on the Arabian Peninsula (Araneae: Pholcidae). Zootaxa 5563(1): 290–335. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.19. . Reference page. 

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