Fernando Álvarez-Padilla

Fernando Álvarez-Padilla, Mexican arachnologist.

• Professor: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
• Laboratorio de Aracnología, Departamento de Biología Comparada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior s/n, Colonia Copilco el Bajo. C. P. 04510. Del. Coyoacán, Ciudad de México, México.
• E-mail: fap@ciencias.unam.mx

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 21 taxon names authored by Fernando Álvarez-Padilla

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2007

• Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2007. Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151(2): 285-335. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2007.00304.x. . Reference page. 
• Hormiga, Alvarez-Padilla, F. & Benjamin, S.P. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae, and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum Novitates 3577: 1-21. Reference page. 

2012

• Álvarez-Padilla, F.; Ubick, D.; Griswold, C.E.. 2012: Noideattella and Tolegnaro, two new genera of goblin spiders from Madagascar, with comments on the gamasomorphoid and silhouettelloid oonopids (Araneae, Oonopidae). American Museum novitates. 3745: 1-76. DOI: 10.1206/3745.2. abstract and full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Platnick NI; Abrahim N, Alvarez-Padilla F, Andriamalala D, Baehr B, Baert L, Bonaldo, AB; Brescovit AD, Chousou-Polydouri N, Dupérré N; Eichenberger B; Fannes W; Gaublomme E; Gillespie RG., Grismado CJ; Griswold CE.; Harvey MS.; Henrard, A, Hormiga G, Izquierdo MA, Jocqué R; Kranz-Baltensperger Y, Kropf C, Ott R, Ramírez MJ, Raven RJ; Rheims CA, Ruiz GRS, Santos AJ, Saucedo A, Sierwald P, Szűts T; Ubick D, Wang, X-P. 2012. Tarsal organ morphology and the phylogeny of goblin spiders (Araneae, Oonopidae), with notes on basal genera. American Museum Novitates. 3736: 1–52.
• Dimitar D. Lopardo L. Giribet G. Arnedo MA. Álvarez-Padilla F. Hormiga G. 2012. Tangled in a sparse spider web: single origin of orb weavers and their spinning work unravelled by denser taxonomic sampling. Proceedings of the Royal Society Series B Biological Sciences. 279 (1732): 1341–1350.
• Álvarez-Padilla, F. and G. Hormiga. 2011. Case 3541- Metinae Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae, Tetragnathidae): proposed emendation of the current spelling to Metainae to remove homonymy with Metidae Boeck, 1872 (Crustacea, Copepoda). Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 68(4) 262-266.
• Álvarez-Padilla F. and Benjamín S. 2011. Phylogenetic placement and redescription of the spider genus Atelidea Simon, 1895 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa. 2761: 51–63.
• {{aut|Álvarez-Padilla F. and Hormiga G. 2011. Morphological and Phylogenetic Atlas of the orbweaving spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae: Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 162: 713 – 879.
• Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. 2010. On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae) and the circumscription of the genus Dolichognatha O.P.- Cambridge, 1869. American Museum Novitates. American Museum Novitates 3683:1-19.
• Álvarez-Padilla F., Dimitrov D., Giribet G., and Hormiga G. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data. Cladistics. 25: 109–146.
• Rivera-Quiroz, F.A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2015. Three new species of the genus Trachelas (Araneae: Trachelidae) from an oak forest inside the Mesoamerican biodiversity hotspot in Mexico. Zootaxa 3999(1): 95–110. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3999.1.6. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Spagna J. C. and Álvarez-Padilla F. 2008. Finding an upper limit for gap costs in direct optimization parsimony. Cladistics. 25: 787–801.
• Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., and Hormiga G. 2008. Until dirt do us apart: on the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Zootaxa, 1698: 49–56.
• Álvarez-Padilla, F. and Hormiga G. 2007. A protocol for digesting internal soft tissues and mounting spiders for scanning electron microscopy. Journal of Arachnology 35: 538–542.
• Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., and Hormiga, G. 2007. The female genitalic morphology of the orb weaving spider genus Agriognatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Morphology 268(9): 758–770.
• Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2007. Systematics of the spider genus Metabus O. P.-Cambridge, 1899 (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae) with additions to the tetragnathid fauna of Chile and comments on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151: 285–335.
• Garcilazo-Cruz, U. & Alvarez-Padilla, F. 2015: Description of a novel mating plug mechanism in spiders and the description of the new species Maeota setastrobilaris (Araneae, Salticidae). Zookeys, 509: 1–12. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.509.9711 full article view Reference page. 
• Hormiga, G., Álvarez-Padilla F., and Benjamín S.P. 2007. First records of extant Hispaniolan spiders of the families Mysmenidae, Symphytognathidae and Ochyroceratidae (Araneae), including a new species of Ochyrocera. American Museum Novitates 3577: 1–21.
• Kuntner, M. and Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2006a. Systematics of the Afro-Macaronesian spider genus Sancus (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Arachnology 34(1):113-125.

2018

• Salgueiro-Sepúlveda, F.J. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2018. New species of the orb-weaving spider genus Chrysometa (Araneae, Tetragnathidae) from oak forests near of the Pico de Orizaba National Park (Veracruz, Mexico). Zootaxa 4450(3): 301–330. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4450.3.1 Reference page. 

2019

• Rivera-Quiroz, F.A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2019. Description of five new Wulfila (Araneae, Anyphaenidae) species from Mexico with comments on the taxonomy of the genus. Zootaxa 4712(2): 269–289. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4712.2.6 . Reference page. 

2020

• Alvarez-Padilla, F., Galán-Sánchez, M.A. & Salgueiro-Sepúlveda, F.J. 2020. A protocol for online documentation of spider biodiversity inventories applied to a Mexican tropical wet forest (Araneae, Araneomorphae). Zootaxa 4722(3): 241–269. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.3.3 pdf Reference page. 

2022

• Galán-Sánchez, M.A. & Álvarez-Padilla, F. 2022. A new genus of caponiid spiders with its phylogenetic placement within Nopinae and the description of a new species of Orthonops Chamberlin, 1924 from Eastern Mexico (Araneae: Synspermiata, Caponiidae). Zootaxa 5128(4): 547–573. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5128.4.5. Reference page.