Helen M. Smith

Helen M. Smith, Australian arachnologist.

Post-doctoral Researcher, Arachnology Collection, Australian Museum, 6 College Street, Sydney, New South Wales 2010 Australia.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2002. Therlinya, A New Genus of Spiders from Eastern Australia (Araneae: Amaurobioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 54: 293–312. Reference page.

Gray, M.R. & Smith, H.M. 2004. The “Striped” Group of Stiphidiid Spiders: Two New Genera from Northeastern New South Wales, Australia (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Amaurobioidea). Records of the Australian Museum 56: 123–138. Reference page.

Smith, H.M. 2006a. A revision of the genus Poltys in Australasia (Araneae: Araneidae). Records of the Australian Museum 58: 43-96. Reference page.

Gray, M.R.; Smith, H.M. 2008: A new subfamily of spiders with grate-shaped tapeta from Australia and Papua New Guinea (Araneae: Stiphidiidae: Borralinae). Records of the Australian Museum 60(1): 13–44. DOI: 10.3853/j.0067-1975.60.2008.1493 . Reference page.

Smith, H.M., Vink, C.J., Fitzgerald, B.M. & Sirvid, P.J. 2012. Redescription and generic placement of the spider Cryptachaea gigantipes (Keyserling, 1890) (Araneae: Theridiidae) and notes on related synanthropic species in Australasia. Zootaxa 3507: 38–56. Preview PDF Reference page.

Baehr, B.C., Harvey, M.S., Smith, H.M. & Ott, R. 2013. The goblin spider genus Opopaea in Australia and the Pacific islands (Araneae: Oonopidae). Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Nature 58: 107-338. Reference page.
Smith, H.M. 2013a: The spider genus Toxopsoides (Araneae: Desidae: Toxopinae): new records and species from Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 135: 19-43. Abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page.

Smith, H.M., Harvey, M.S., Agnarsson, I. & Anderson, G.J. 2017. A Revision and Cladistic Analysis of the Genus Corasoides Butler (Araneae: Desidae) with Descriptions of Nine New Species. Records of the Australian Museum 69(10: 15–64. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.69.2017.1672. . Full article (PDF). Reference page.