Nikolaj Scharff

Nikolaj Scharff, Danish arachnologist.

Natural History Museum of Denmark, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

Taxon names authored

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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Jocqué, R. & Scharff, N. 1986. Spiders (Araneae) of the family Linyphiidae from the Tanzanian mountain areas Usambara, Uluguru and Rungwe. Annalen Zoologische Wetenschappen 248: 1–61. Reference page.

Scharff, N. 1989. New species and records of afrotropical Linyphiidae (Araneae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 8(1): 13–20. Reference page.

Scharff, N. 1990. A catalogue of African Linyphiidae (Araneae). Steenstrupia 16: 117–152. Reference page.
Scharff, N. 1990. Spiders of the family Linyphiidae from the Uzungwa mountains, Tanzania (Araneae). Entomologica Scandinavica, Supplement 36: 1–95. Reference page.

Scharff, N. & Coddington, J.A. 1997. A phylogenetic analysis of the orb-weaving spider family Araneidae (Arachnida, Araneae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 120(4): 355–434. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1997.tb01281.x Reference page.

Hormiga, G.; Buckle, D.J. & Scharff, N 2005: Nanoa, an enigmatic new genus of pimoid spiders from western North America (Pimoidae, Araneae). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society, 145: 249–262. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00192.x Reference page.
Hormiga, G. & Scharff, N. 2005. Monophyly and phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Labulla Simon, 1884 (Araneae, Linyphiidae) and description of the new genus Pecado. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 143(3): 359–404. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2005.00147.x Reference page.

Jocqué, R. & Scharff, N. 2007. Holmelgonia, a new name for the genus Elgonia Holm, 1989 (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Journal of Afrotropical Zoology 3: 161. PDF. Reference page.

Framenau, V. W. & Scharff, N. 2008. The orb-weaving spider genus Larinia in Australia (Araneae: Araneidae). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 66(2): 227–250. PDF Reference page.
Schmidt, J.B. & Scharff, N. 2008. A taxonomic revision of the orb-weaving spider genus Acusilas Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Araneidae). Insect Systematics & Evolution 39(1): 1–38. DOI: 10.1163/187631208788784147 Reference page.

Framenau, V. W. & Scharff, N. 2009. Cyrtobill darwini, a new species in a new orb-weaving spider genus from Australia (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae). Records of the Western Australian Museum, (25): 315–328. Reference page.
Framenau, V.W., Scharff, N. & Levi, H.W. 2009. Not from “Down Under”: new synonymies and combinations for orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) erroneously reported from Australia. Zootaxa 2073: 22–30. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2073.1.2 Reference page.
Szűts, T. & Scharff, N. 2009. Revision of the living members of the genus Tomocyrba Simon, 1900 (Araneae: Salticidae). Contributions to Natural History 12: 1337-1372. Reference page.

Framenau, V.W.; Scharff, N.; Harvey, M.S. 2010: Systematics of the Australian orb-weaving spider genus Demadiana with comments on the generic classification of the Arkyinae (Araneae: Araneidae). Invertebrate systematics, 24(2): 139–171. DOI: 10.1071/IS10005Reference page.

Miller, J.A., Griswold, C.E., Scharff, N., Řezáč, M., Szűts, T. & Marhabaie, M. 2012. The velvet spiders: an atlas of the Eresidae (Arachnida, Araneae). ZooKeys 195: 1–144. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.195.2342 . Reference page.
Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. 2012: First evidence of aggressive chemical mimicry in the Malagasy orb weaving spider Exechocentrus lancearius Simon, 1889 (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae) and description of a second species in the genus. Arthropod systematics & phylogeny, 70(2): 107–118. PDF.Reference page.

Scharff, N. & Hormiga, G. 2013: On the Australian linyphiid spider Alaxchelicera ordinaria Butler, 1932 (Araneae). Zootaxa 3750(2): 193–196. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3750.2.8 Reference page.

Miranda, G.S. de, Milleri-Pinto, M., Gonçalves-Souza, T., Giupponi, A.P. de L. & Scharff, N. 2016. A new species of Charinus Simon 1892 from Brazil, with notes on behavior (Amblypygi, Charinidae). ZooKeys 621: 15–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.621.9980 Reference page.

Frick, H. & Scharff, N. 2018. Description of one new genus and four new species of mynoglenine spiders from Africa (Araneae: Linyphiidae: Mynogleninae). European Journal of Taxonomy, (415) DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.415 Reference page.
Miranda, G.S., Giupponi, A.P. de L., Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. 2018. Weygoldtia, a new genus of Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi) with a reappraisal of the genera in the family. Zoologischer Anzeiger 273: 23–32. DOI: 10.1016/j.jcz.2018.02.003 Reference page.
Wood, H.M. & Scharff, N. 2018. A review of the Madagascan pelican spiders of the genera Eriauchenius O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1881 and Madagascarchaea gen. n. (Araneae, Archaeidae). ZooKeys 727: 1–96. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.727.20222. Reference page.

Framenau, V.W., Vink, C.J. Scharff, N., Baptista, R.L.C. & Castanheira, P. de S. 2021. Review of the Australian and New Zealand orb-weaving spider genus Novakiella (Araneae, Araneidae). Zoosystematics and Evolution 97(2): 393–405. DOI: 10.3897/zse.97.67788 Reference page.
de Miranda, G.S., Giupponi, A.P. de L. , Prendini, L. & Scharff, N. 2021. Systematic revision of the pantropical whip spider family Charinidae Quintero, 1986 (Arachnida, Amblypygi). European Journal of Taxonomy 772: 1–409. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.772.1505. . Reference page.