Cor Vink

• PhD
• Senior Lecturer at Lincoln University

Pisauridae are a global and heterogeneous assemblage of spider genera with diverse morphologies and lifestyles. So far, the monophyly of Pisauridae and the inclusion of fishing spiders ( Dolomedes ) in this family have not been thoroughly tested. Here, we amend the systematics and classification of these lineages within a UCE phylogenomic framework...

The family-level placement of the species Pacificana cockayni Hogg, 1904 (Araneae, Miturgidae) has been ambiguous for over a century, with the monotypic genus Pacificana initially placed in Agelenidae, later transferred to Amaurobioidinae (Anyphaenidae), and presently in Miturgidae. A recent work describing the male and molecular data consisting of...

Introgression is a highly influential process in evolution, where genes flow between species that are not fully reproductively isolated. Studies on introgression often focus on describing gene transfer and environmental changes that facilitate the meeting of species. However, the impact of mating systems and behaviour that facilitate gene transfer...

Dolomedes may easily be considered to be among the most charismatic spider taxa. Known colloquially as fishing or raft spiders, this clade of dolomedid cursorial hunters is speciose with about 100 valid species names. Most Dolomedes are large spiders that inhabit water bodies across all continents except Antarctica and, interestingly, South America...

The jumping spider Marpissa marina (Goyen, 1892) is endemic to Aotearoa New Zealand. In this paper, we redescribe the species. Marpissa marina was placed in the Northern Hemisphere genus Marpissa due to its subjective similarity to spiders in that genus. The original description lacked modern morphological diagnoses and useful illustrations. The de...

Pisauridae Simon, 1890 or "nursery web spiders" are a global and heterogenous assemblage of spider genera with diverse lifestyles, containing web builders and webless species, as well as terrestrial and semi-aquatic species, notably "fishing spiders", genus Dolomedes Latreille, 1804. Incomplete, unresolved, or conflicting phylogenies have so far ha...

Aquatic environments are an unusual habitat for most arthropods. Nevertheless, many arthropod species that were once terrestrial dwelling have transitioned back to marine and freshwater environments, either as semiaquatic or, more rarely, as fully aquatic inhabitants. Transition to water from land is exceptional, and without respiratory modificatio...

Arthropods are often ignored or under-sampled in biodiversity and conservation assessments because of their large diversity, small size and lack of taxonomic guides. Rapid biodiversity assessment programmes have been established to assess these groups accurately. A COBRA (Conservation Oriented Biodiversity Rapid Assessment) protocol consists of an...

The new Australo-Pacific orb-weaving spider genus Socca is established to include 12 species from Australia: Socca pustulosa (Walckenaer, 1841) comb. nov. (type species; also present in New Zealand); S. arena sp. nov., S. australis sp. nov. S. caiguna sp. nov., S. elvispresleyi sp. nov., S. eugeni sp. nov., S. johnnywarreni sp. nov., S. kullmanni s...

Invasive species are common around the world, but we still do not know which traits are most important for successfully establishing in new environments. Different stages of the invasion process, including transport, introduction, establishment, and spread, can act as selective filters for different combinations of phenotypic traits. Theoretical an...

Conservation Status of New Zealand Araneae (spiders), 2020

A new monotypic orb-weaving spider (Araneidae Clerck, 1757) genus, Courtaraneus gen. nov., is described to accommodate the New Zealand species C. orientalis (Urquhart, 1887) comb. nov. This new genus is proposed, as the male pedipalp of the species is unique amongst orb-weaving spiders by the presence of two complex tibial apophyses and a heavily s...

The orb-weaving spider genus Novakiella Court & Forster, 1993 (family Araneidae Clerck, 1757) is reviewed to include two species, N. trituberculosa (Roewer, 1942) (type species, Australia and New Zealand) and N. boletus sp. nov. (Australia). Novakiella belongs to the informal, largely Australian ‘backobourkiine’ clade and shares with the other gene...

Habitat loss is one of the greatest drivers for extinction worldwide. Understanding a taxon’s habitat requirements is crucial in being able to protect it from decline. The Australasian trapdoor spider genus Cantuaria (Idiopidae) is widespread and diverse within the islands of New Zealand, but little is known of its ecology. We studied the habitat r...

Philoponella congregabilis (Rainbow, 1916), an Australian spider in the family Uloboridae, has recently established in Christchurch, New Zealand. The species is redescribed. It builds reduced, horizontal or sloping orb webs in low vegetation, on fences, under eaves and in outbuildings. The webs of different individuals can be interconnected. Philop...

The scorpion-tailed orb-weaving spiders in the genus Arachnura Vinson, 1863 (Araneidae Clerck, 1757) are revised for Australia and New Zealand. Arachnura higginsii (L. Koch, 1872) only occurs in Australia and A. feredayi (L. Koch, 1872) only in New Zealand. A single female collected in south-eastern Queensland (Australia) is here tentatively identi...

Spider webs vary in size to meet the nutritional requirements of the resident spider with the resident’s body size strongly informing these requirements. In this way, the effect of body size on web-building behaviour should be apparent across species. To determine whether the size of analogous web structures scales with body size across closely rel...

Spiders are commonly found in terrestrial environments and many rely heavily on their silks for fitness related tasks such as reproduction and dispersal. Although rare, a few species occupy aquatic or semi-aquatic habitats and for them, silk-related specializations are also essential to survive in aquatic environments. Most spider silks studied to...

Background Data on 200 species of spiders were collected to assess the global threat status of the group worldwide. To supplement existing digital occurrence records from GBIF, a dataset of new occurrence records was compiled for all species using published literature or online sources, from which geographic coordinates were extracted or interprete...

Marine strandlines provide habitat for a variety of littoral and terrestrial invertebrates, including arachnids. In this study we recorded spiders in strandlines at 35 sites on Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. On average, only 1.5 named species were recorded per thirty-minute hand search, and many sample visits (30%) recorded no spiders. Species accum...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most widely used information source on the extinction risk of species. One of the uses of the Red List is to evaluate and monitor the state of biodiversity and a possible approach for this purpose is the Red List Index (RLI). For many taxa, mainly hyperdiverse groups, it is not possible within availabl...

Distribution of Loxosceles devia Gertsch & Mulaik, 1940

Distribution of Dictis denticulata Dankittipakul & Singtripop, 2010

Distribution of Selenops candidus Muma, 1953

Distribution of Selenops shevaroyensis Gravely, 1931

Distribution of Scytodes cogu Brescovit & Rheims, 2001

Distribution of Tetrablemma brevidens Tong & Li, 2008

Distribution of Heteropoda jiangxiensis Li, 1991

Distirbution of Isopeda echuca Hirts, 1992

Distribution of Sinopoda sitkao Jäger, 2012

Distribution of Eupalaestrus larae Ferretti & Barneche, 2012

Distribution of Thymoites pictipes (Banks, 1904)

Distribution of Thymoites verus (Levi, 1959)

Distribution of Pseudopoda parvipunctata Jäger, 2001

Distribution of Chrysometa lepida (Keyserling, 1881)

Distribution of Brachionopus tristis Purcell, 1903

Distribution of Phormictopus platus Chamberlin, 1917

Distribution of Sesato setosa Saaristo, 2006

Distribution of Theridion miserum Thorell, 1898

Distribution of Ogulnius infumatus Simon, 1897

Distribution of Theridiosoma concolor Keyserling, 1884

Distribution of Epicadus trituberculatus Taczanowski, 1872

Distribution of Cardiopelma mascatum Vol, 1999

Distribution of Plesiopelma myodes Pocock, 1901

Distribution of Lasaeola convexa (Blackwall, 1870)

Distribution of Bomis bengalensis Tikader, 1962

Distribution of Misumena picta Franganillo, 1926

Distribution of Misumenoides gwarighatensis Gajbe, 2004

Distribution of Ozyptila conspurcata Thorell, 1877

Distribution of Thomisus litoris Strand, 1913

Distribution of Cyrtognatha pachygnathoides (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1894)

Distribution of Cyriopagopus vonwirthi Schmidt, 2005

Distribution of Poecilotheria subfusca Pocock, 1895

Distribution of Dipoeana appalachia Levi, 1953

Distribution of Steatoda xerophila Levy & Amitai, 1982

Distribution of Theridion xiangfengense Zhu & Song, 1992

Distribution of Misumenops ignobilis (Badcock, 1932)

Distribution of Synema hildebrandti Dahl, 1907

Distribution of Xysticus kalandadzei Mcheidze & Utochkin, 1971

Distribution of Xysticus tristrami (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891)

Distribution of Longrita rastellata Platnick, 2002

Distribution of Stephanopis yulensis Thorell, 1881

Distribution of Synema adjunctum O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1891

Distribution of Zodarion sytchevskajae (Nenilin & Fet, 1985)

Distribution of Misumenops guianensis (Taczanowski, 1872)

Distribution of Oxytate greenae (Tikader, 1980)

Distribution of Ozyptila hardyi Gertsch, 1953

Distribution of Tmarus peruvianus Berland, 1913

Distribution of Cavasteron guttulatum Baehr & Jocqué, 2000

Distribution of Storena gujaratensis Tikader & Patel, 1975

Distribution of Huntia deepensis Gray & Thompson, 2001

The Australian redback spider, Latrodectus hasseltii preys on at least 10 endemic species in New Zealand, highlighting a need for control. Male redbacks are attracted to virgin females by an airborne pheromone. The aim of this study was to analyse the response of male redback spiders to two volatile chemicals found on the silk of virgin but not mat...

Spiders of the nemesiid mygalomorph subfamily Anaminae are common in the Australasian region from rainforests to deserts. Using specimens from all 12 named genera, we evaluated anamine phylogeny and classification using a multi-locus molecular dataset. We combined newly obtained 18S and 28S ribosomal RNA and elongation factor 1 gamma (EF-1γ) sequen...

The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species is the most widely used information source on the extinction risk of species. One of the uses of the Red List is to evaluate and monitor the state of biodiversity and a possible approach for this purpose is the Red List Index (RLI). For many taxa, mainly hyperdiverse groups, it is not possible within availabl...

Distribution of Oecobiusrivula Shear, 1970

Distribution of Caecoonopscubitermitis Benoit, 1964

Distribution of Dolomedesmendigoetmopasi Barrion, 1995

Distribution of Dolomedestenebrosus Hentz, 1844

Distribution of Helvetiastridulans Ruiz & Brescovit, 2008

Distribution of Plexippusclemens (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872)

Distribution of Rhenehinlalakea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995

Distribution of Titanattuspaganus Chickering, 1946

Distribution of Oonopstectulus Chickering, 1970

Distribution of Scaphidysderinanapo Platnick & Dupérré, 2011

Distribution of Tapinesthisinermis (Simon, 1882)

Distribution of Philodromusgertschi Schick, 1965

Distribution of Modisimuscuadro Huber & Fischer, 2010

Distribution of Pholcusjixianensis Zhu & Yu, 1983

Distribution of Charminuscamerunensis Thorell, 1899

Distribution of Hygropodalongitarsis (Thorell, 1877)

Distribution of Theumaaprica Simon, 1893

Distribution of Afraflacilladatuntata (Logunov & Zamanpoore, 2005)

Distribution of Attuluszaisanicus (Logunov, 1998)