Daniele Polotow

Daniele Polotow, Brazilian arachnologist

• Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, Butantã, São Paulo, CEP 05503-000, Brazil.
• Departamento de Ecologia e Biologia Evolutiva (DEBE), Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCar), campus São Carlos, Rodo- via Washington Luís, Km 235, CEP 13565-905, São Carlos, SP, Brazil.
• E-mail: danielepolotow@gmail.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 46 taxon names authored by Daniele Polotow

Publications

2005

• Brescovit, A.D. & Polotow, D. 2005. Taxonomic remarks on the genus Cupiennius Simon (Araneae, Ctenidae) and description of C. vodou sp. nov. from Haiti. Revista Brasileira de Zoologia 22(3): 771-774. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Polotow, D., Brescovit, A.D. & Pellegatti-Franco, F. 2005. A redescription of Isoctenus coxalis (F.O.P. Cambridge, 1902) comb. nov. and description of I. corymbus, a new species of cave dwelling spider (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae) from the state of Goiás, Brazil. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11: 37-42. Reference page. 

2009

• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D. 2009. Revision of the new wandering spider genus Ohvida and taxonomic remarks on Celaetycheus Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa 2115: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt. Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D.. 2009a. Revision and cladistic analysis of Isoctenus and description of a new neotropical genus (Araneae, Ctenidae, Cteninae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 155(3): 583–614. Reference page. 

2014

• Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. 2014. The new spider genus Arctenus, an afrotropical representative of the Calocteninae (Araneae: Ctenidae). Journal of Arachnology 42(3): 240-247. full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2016

• Polotow, D. & Jocqué, R. 2016. Description of a new species of the Afrotropical spider genus Afroneutria (Araneae, Ctenidae). Zootaxa 4205(4): 395–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4205.4.8. Reference page. 

2017

• Jiménez, M.L., Berrian, J.E., Polotow, D. & Palacios-Cardiel, C. 2017. Description of Califorctenus (Cteninae, Ctenidae, Araneae), a new spider genus from Mexico. Zootaxa 4238(1): 97–108. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4238.1.7. Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Griswold, C.E. 2017. Cleaning old cabinets: revealing the taxonomy of Sri Lankan wolf spiders (Araneae, Udubidae and Zoropsidae). Zootaxa 4362(1): 51–74. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4362.1.3 Reference page. 

2018

• Hazzi, N.A., Polotow, D., Brescovit, A.D., González-Obando, R. & Simó, M. 2018. Systematics and biogeography of Spinoctenus, a new genus of wandering spider from Colombia (Ctenidae). Invertebrate Systematics 32(1): 111-158. DOI: 10.1071/IS17022 Full article Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D. 2018. Kiekie, a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Cteninae, Araneae). Zootaxa 4531(3): 353–373. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4531.3.2 Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Griswold, C. 2018. Chinja, a new genus of spider from the Eastern Arc Mountains of Tanzania (Araneae, Zoropsidae). Zootaxa 4472(3): 545–562. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4472.3.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D. 2019: Guasuctenus gen. nov., a new Neotropical spider genus of Ctenidae (Araneae). Zootaxa 4624(4): 539–550. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4624.4.6. Reference page. 
• Polotow, D. & Brescovit, A.D. 2019a. Almost eight decades later: description of the male of Isoctenus guadalupei (Mello- Leitão, 1941) comb. nov. and redescription of the female. Zootaxa 4683(2): 291–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.2.8 . Reference page. 

2020

• Pereira, M.P., Labarque, F. & Polotow, D. 2020. Description of a new Neotropical spider genus in the family Ctenidae Keyserling, 1877 (Araneae: Lycosoidea) from the Brazilian Amazon rainforest. Zootaxa 4890(3): 375–396. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4890.3.5. . Reference page. 

2021

• Arizala, S., Labarque, F. & Polotow, D. 2021. Revision of the Neotropical spider genus Acanthoctenus (Araneae: Ctenidae: Acanthocteninae). Zootaxa 4920(1): 001–055. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4920.1.1 Reference page. 

2022

• Cizauskas, I., Polotow, D., Gallão, J.E., Bichuette, M.E. & Brescovit, A.D. 2022. Ctenus igatu sp. nov. (Araneae: Ctenidae): a new subterranean spider from Brazil with an analysis of troglomorphic traits. Journal of Arachnology 50(1): 1-12. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-20-068. . Reference page. 

2023

• Moraes, I.M. de P., Polotow, D., Labarque, F.M. & da Silva, M.B. 2023. Description of three new species of Isoctenus Bertkau, 1880 and new records for I. areia Polotow & Brescovit (Araneae, Ctenidae) from northeastern Brazil. Zootaxa 5315(2): 177–186. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5315.2.6. Reference page.