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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• Benavides, L.R. & 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. 

• Benavides, L.R. & 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., Benavides Silva, L.R. & 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., Benavides Silva, L.R., 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. 

• Benavides, L.R., 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. 
• Benavides, L.R., 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. 

• Benavides, L.R. & 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. 

• Benavides, L.R., 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.