Danniella Sherwood

Danniella Sherwood, UK arachnologist

• Arachnology Research Association, 124 City Road, London, ECIV 2NX, United Kingdom
• IUCN Species Survival Commission, Atlantic Islands Invertebrate Specialist Group, c/o Species Recovery Trust, 37 Albany Road, Salisbury SP1 3YQ, United Kingdom
• Department of Biology, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Prishtina, Mother Teresa Street p.n., 10000 Prishtinë, Republic of Kosovo
• Fundación Ariguanabo, 4111, Calle 58, e/ ave. 41 y ave. 43, San Antonio de los Baños, Provincia Artemisa c.p. 18100, Cuba
• Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas de Honduras (CIBIOH), 5to piso edificio palmira, Departamento Francisco Morazán, Tegucigalpa, Honduras
• E-mail: danni.sherwood@hotmail.com

Taxon names authored

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• 107 taxon names authored by Danniella Sherwood

Publications

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2019

• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2019. The revised taxonomic placement of the three species of Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895 described by R. I. Pocock in 1903 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 40-46. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.1.40. Reference page. .
• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2019a. The revised taxonomic placement of some arboreal Ornithoctoninae Pocock, 1895 with description of a new species of Omothymus Thorell, 1891 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 137-147. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.137. Reference page. 
• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2019b. A new genus and species of theraphosid spider from Sarawak, Borneo (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Journal of the British Tarantula Society 34(1): 19-34. Reference page. 
• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2019c. Ontogenetic colour change in the Venezuelan theraphosine Chromatopelma cyaneopubescens (Strand, 1907) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 146: 8-10. Reference page. 
• Pérez-Miles, F., Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2019. Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925, senior synonym of Ami Perez-Miles, 2008 and Barropelma Chamberlin, 1940 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(2): 150-155. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2018.18.2.150. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2019. Aphonopelma braunshausenii Tesmoingt, 1996 is a nomen dubium, with review of some historic morphological characters ineffective at species delineation (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 4657(3): 573–580. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4657.3.9. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2019a. Revised taxonomic placement of Poecilotheria chaojii Mirza, Sanap & Bhosale, 2014 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(1): 19–21. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2019. The first records of Holothele longipes (L. Koch, 1875) from Guyana and Panama (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(3): 280-283. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2019.18.3.280. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Longhorn, S.J. 2019. A new synonymy in the genus Homoeomma Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae,Theraphosidae), with comments on potential homonymy. Bionomina 15: 69-73. DOI: 10.11646/bionomina.15.1.8. . Reference page. 

2020

• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2020. Revised taxonomic placement of some Mesoamerican Psalmopoeus Pocock, 1895, with description of three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(4): 387–398. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301. . Reference page. 
• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2020a. Revised taxonomic placement of Pseudhapalopus Strand, 1907, with notes on some related taxa (Araneae: Theraphosidae. Arachnology 18(4): 301-316. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.4.301. . Reference page. 
• Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Longhorn, S.J. 2020. The revised taxonomic placement of the genus Acentropelma Pocock, 1901 and restoration of the genus Pseudoschizopelma Smith, 1995 (Aranei: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta 29(4): 453–466. DOI: 10.15298/arthsel.29.4.07 Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2020. On the authorship of the Costa Rican bolas spider Mastophora caesariata Levi, 2006 (Araneae: Araneidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 37: 244. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2020a. Complimentary morphological data for the theraphosid spider Sickius longibulbi Soares & Camargo, 1948 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 26: 26-32. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2020b. Lectotype designation for the selenocosmiine spider Chilobrachys tschankhoensis Schenkel, 1963 with notes on its taxonomic placement (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnida – Rivista Aracnologica Italiana 26: 33-38. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2020c. Redescription of the enigmatic Costa Rican spider Aenigmarachne sinapophysis Schmidt, 2005 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 440-443. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.440. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D.& Gabriel, R. 2020d. A new species of Umbyquyra Gargiulo, Brescovit & Lucas, 2018 from Goiás, Brazil (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(6): 619-622. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.6.619. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Fabiano-da-Silva, W., Gabriel, R. & Lucas, S.M. 2020. Redescription of Nesipelma insulare Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996, with a revised generic diagnosis for Nesipelma Schmidt & Kovařík, 1996, and a transfer from Cyrtopholis Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(5): 462-467. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2020.18.5.462. . Reference page. 

2021

• Sherwood, D. 2021. Nomenclatural notes on a homonym in the family Salticidae Blackwall, 1841 (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 18(8): 867. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.8.867 . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Blick, T., Gabriel, R. & Lucas, S.M. 2021. On the authorship and publication dates of the nomina Theraphosa and Theraphosidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Zootaxa 4950(2): 395–397. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4950.2.11 Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2021. A new species of Spinosatibiapalpus Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41:75-81. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2021. A new species of Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020 from Colombia and a transfer from Proshapalopus Mello-Leitão, 1923 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(8): 838-843. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ferretti, N.E., Gabriel, R. & West. R.C. 2021. Redescription of the theraphosine Hapalotremus albipes Simon, 1903 and description of four new species of Hapalotremus Simon, 1903 from Peru and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 18(9):965-989. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2021.18.9.965. . ResearchGate .Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Guadanucci, J.P.L., Gabriel, R. 2021. First Description of the Female of the Trinidadian Theraphosine Spinosatibiapalpus trinitatis (Pocock, 1903) (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy. 2(1): 41–47. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy2010003 . Reference page. 

2022

• Gabriel, R. & Sherwood, D. 2022. Taxonomy, biogeography, and ecology of some theraphosid spiders of the Darién region with description of five new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 40: 5-18. Reference page. 
• Marusik, Y.M. & Sherwood, D. 2022. Matronymic genera in spiders (Araneae) named for arachnologists. Arachnology 19 (special issue): 150-157. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2022. On the taxonomic and nomenclatural status of Ocyale Audouin, 1826 (Araneae: Pisauridae) and Hippasosa Roewer, 1960 (Araneae: Lycosidae), with notes on some other taxa. Arachnology 19(2): 582-584. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.2.582. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2022. A new species and two new genera of theraphosine from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19:247-256. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.sp1.247. . ResearchGate .Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2022a. Euthycaelus janae, a new species and the first record of the subfamily Schismatothelinae from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Faunitaxys 10(49): 1-4. DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-10(49). . ResearchGate .Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2022b. Thrixopelma nadineae, a new theraphosine from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 2: 255-260. doi:10.3390/taxonomy2030020. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Li, S.Q. & Zhang, F. 2022. A replacement name for Xizangia Song, Zhu & Zhang, 2004 (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(1): 64-65. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Pett, B.L. 2022. Mouse spiders in the humid Chaco: two new species of Actinopus Perty, 1833 from Paraguay (Araneae: Actinopodidae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 41:75-81. ResearchGate .Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2022. On the species of Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions of type material, the first record of P. grandis Bertani, Fukushima & Silva, 2008 from Peru, and the description of four new species. Arachnology 19(3): 650-674. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2022.19.3.650. . Reference page. 

2023

• Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Pérez-Miles, F. 2023. Four new species and two new genera of theraphosid spider from Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 944-951. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.944. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2023a. On the availability of Madagascan pirate spider names in the 1980 work 'Une lacune de La famille moins dans la des Mimetidae' with taxonomic notes on two enigmatic species (Araneae: Mimetidae). ZooNova 23: 1-5. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7628285. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2023b. Oedignatha elhennawyi nom. nov., a replacement name for Oedignatha indica Reddy & Patel, 1993 (Araneae: Liocranidae). Serket 19(3): 264-266. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Beccaloni, J. 2023. Zoropsis rufipes (Lucas, 1838), a historical stowaway from the Canary Islands to the United Kingdom in bananas (Araneae: Zoropsidae). Serket 19(3): 258-263. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2023. Anisaspis awa, new species, and first record of the genus from Ecuador (Araneae: Paratropididae). Arachnology 19(4): 769-771. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.769. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2023. Cymbiapophysa seldeni, a new theraphosine species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(5): 777-779. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.777. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R. & Brescovit, A.D. 2023. Nhandu sylviae sp. nov.: first record of the genus from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(4): 708-712. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.4.708. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Lucas, S.M. & Brescovit, A.D. 2023. Paratropis tortue sp. nov., a new species of mud spider from French Guiana (Araneae: Paratropididae). Faunitaxys 11(10): 1-3. DOI: 10.57800/faunitaxys-11(10). . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Marusik, Y.M. & Sharp, A, 2023. First records of Clubiona hitchinsi Saaristo, 2002 on Ascension Island (Araneae, Clubionidae). Check List 19(6): 833-838. DOI: 10.15560/19.6.833. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Nadal, M.F. & Pett, B.L. 2023. One step forward and two steps back: on three jumping spiders described by H. D. Badcock deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, and two species newly recorded for Argentina (Araneae: Salticidae). Peckhamia 298.1: 1-9. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Sharp, A. 2023. First record of the cob-web spider Platnickina adamsoni (Berland, 1934) from Ascension Island (Araneae: Theridiidae). Serket 19(4): 355-358. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Henrard, A. & Fowler, L. 2023. The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306(3): 397–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.8. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ríos-Tamayo, D., Pett, B.L. & Hinchcliffe, M.J. 2023a. On the specimens of Actinopus Perty, 1833 deposited in the Natural History Museum, London, with redescriptions, first description of missing sexes, and notes on other taxa (Araneae: Actinopodidae). ZooNova 27: 1-31. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Marusik, Y.M., Sharp, A, & Ashmole, N.P. 2023b. A survey of Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from Ascension Island with description of a new species of Australoechemus Schmidt & Piepho, 1994. African Invertebrates 96(3): 291–302. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.96.113946. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Logunov, D.V. & Fowler, L. 2023c. Saint Helenian wolf spiders, with description of two new genera and three new species (Araneae: Lycosidae). Arachnology 19(5): 816-851. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.816 . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Drolshagen, B., Osorio-Vanegas, L.M., Benavides-Rivas, L. & Seiter, M. 2023d. An inordinate fondness for spinnerets: on some spiders of the genera Diplura C. L. Koch, 1850 and Linothele Karsch, 1879 with new species, records, and notes on types (Araneae: Dipluridae). ZooNova 29: 1-22. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ray Gabriel, Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., León-Escalante, R.J., Cisneros-Heredia, D.F., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2023. Pamphobeteus Pocock, 1901: redescriptions, new species and records, description of a missing sex, with taxonomic notes and changes in Megaphobema Pocock, 1901 (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(6): 894-930. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.894. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Ray Gabriel, Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2023f. On the tarantula genus Xenesthis Simon, 1891, with description of a new species from Venezuela (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Taxonomy 3: 509-527. DOI: 10.3390/taxonomy3040029. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Fowler, L. & Ashmole, N.P. 2023g. All creatures great and small: two new synonymies in the Saint Helenian endemic genus Tecution Benoit, 1977 (Araneae: Miturgidae). Arachnology 19(5): 780-787. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2023.19.5.780. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Brescovit, A.D., Henrard, A., Jocqué, R. & Fowler, L. 2023h. Oonops erinaceus Benoit, 1977, a junior synonym of Triaeris stenaspis Simon, 1892 (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 45297(2): 291–293. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.45297.2.8. . Reference page. 
• Tripathi, R., Sudhikumar, A.V. & Sherwood, D. 2023. A new species of Oecobius Lucas, 1846 from the Thar Desert, India (Araneae: Oecobiidae). Zootaxa 5389(4): 483–6. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.4.{{{6}}}. . Reference page. 

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• Trivedi, V., Caleb, T.D.J. & Sherwood, D. 2023. Rediscovery of Evarcha pulchella (Thorell 1895) (Araneae: Salticidae), with the first record for India. Acta Arachnologica 72(2): 129-133. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.72.129. . Reference page. 

2024

• Brescovit, A.D., Sherwood, D. & Lucas, S.M. 2024. Trechona munduruku sp. nov., the first species of Trechona C. L. Koch, 1850 from Brazilian Amazonia (Araneae: Dipluridae). Arachnology 19 (9): 1165–1167. Reference page. 
• Osorio-Vanegas, L.M., Martínez-Hernández, N.J. & Sherwood, D. 2024. A new species of Bolostromus Ausserer 1875 (Araneae: Cyrtaucheniidae) from Colombia. Acta Arachnologica 73(2): 103-109. DOI: 10.2476/asjaa.73.103. . Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Ghia, T., Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2024. New insights on male palpal bulb morphology in Cymbiapophysa Gabriel & Sherwood, 2020, with four new species from Ecuador (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arachnology 19(7): 1003-1017. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.7.1003. . Reference page. 
• Sankaran, P.M., Sherwood, D. & Jäger, P. 2024. On the identity of species of the huntsman spider genus Thelcticopis Karsch, 1884 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Sparianthinae) from India, Myanmar, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka. Zootaxa 5463(3): 301–338. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5463.3.1. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2024. A new species of Cyclocosmia Ausserer, 1871 from Vietnam (Araneae: Halonoproctidae). Arthropoda Selecta 33(1): 106–111. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2024. Studies on spider nomenclature – I: miscellaneous notes on unrecognisable species, new synonyms, and untenable subspecies (Araneae: Araneomorphae). The Indochina Entomologist 1(23): 189–235. Abstract. PDF. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Caleb, T.D.J. 2024. On ten unavailable and thirty-four dubious names for spiders (Araneae) from India. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 113-118. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2024a. On the identity of Neostenotarsus guianensis (Caporiacco, 1954), with a redescription of the holotype male and the first records from Guyana (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Arthropoda 2(1): 76-84. DOI: 10.3390/arthropoda2010006. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gabriel, R. 2024b. Two new species of Thrixopelma Schmidt, 1994 from Peru (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 31: 1-8. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10830561. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Dunlop, J.A. & Sharp, A. 2024. On the identity of Opopaea euphorbicola Strand, 1909 and first records of three other non-native goblin spiders from Ascension Island (Araneae: Oonopidae). Zootaxa 5437(1): 125–130. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5437.1.9. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Henrard, A. & VandenSpiegel, D. 2024. Selenogyrus foordi, a new species and the first record of the subfamily Selenogyrinae Smith, 1990 from Guinea (Araneae, Theraphosidae). African Invertebrates 65(2): 37–48. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.65.128284. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Henrard, A., Peters, M., Price, B.W., Hall, A.C., White, O.W., Grignet, V. & Wilkins, V. 2024. Two new sympatric species of the pirate spider genus Ero C.L. Koch, 1836 from the cloud forest of Saint Helena Island, South Atlantic Ocean (Araneae: Mimetidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 921: 76–97. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2024.921.2417. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Marusik, Y.M., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Calderón-Carvajal, J. & Sharp, A. 2024a. A new species of Thallumetus Simon, 1893, the first dictynid from Ascension Island (Araneae: Dictynidae). Arachnology 19(8): 1051-1054. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.8.1051. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Marusik, Y.M., Sharp, A. & Wilkins, V. 2024b. First record and new species of the hitherto American endemic genus Hibana Brescovit, 1991 from Ascension Island (Araneae: Anyphaenidae). Arachnology 19(8): 1139-1142. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2024.19.8.1139. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Grignet, V., Harvey, M.S., Sharp, A., Wilkins, V., Ashmole, M. & Ashmole, N.P. 2024d. David and Goliath: on the pseudoscorpions of Ascension Island, including the world’s largest, Garypus titanius Beier, 1961, and a new, minute, Neocheiridium Beier, 1932 (Arachnida: Pseudoscorpiones). Natura Somogyiensis 42: 131-150. DOI: 10.24394/NatSom.2024.42.131. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Osorio-Vanegas, L.M., Benavides, L., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Hörweg, C., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M., 2024e. Spot the difference: on the genus Hapalopus Ausserer, 1875 in Colombia and a new related genus from Brazil and Bolivia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 32: 1-44. Reference page. 

2025

• Bariev, T.B. & Sherwood, D. 2025. New species and first record of the genus Titanidiops Simon, 1903 from Sudan (Araneae: Idiopidae). Arachnology 20(3): 329–331. Reference page. 
• Geci, D., Ibrahimi, H., Strohmeier, T., Bilalli, A., Musliu, M., Kolbmüller, S. & Sherwood, D. 2025b. Trapdoor spiders of the family Nemesiidae Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from Kosovo. Arachnology 20(2): 281-286. DOI: 10.13156/arac.2025.20.2.281. Reference page. 
• Osorio-Vanegas, L.M., Martínez-Hernández, N.J., Casalla-Daza, R., Sherwood, D. & Quijano-Cuervo, L.G. 2025. A new species of Actinopus Perty, 1833, belonging to the cucutaensis group, from Colombia (Araneae: Actinopodidae), with notes on its natural history. Arachnology 20(1): 70–75. Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Guerrero-Campoverde, A., León-Escalante, R.J., Gabriel, R., Sherwood, D. & Cisneros-Heredia, D.F. 2025. Revisiting the tarantula genus Neischnocolus Petrunkevitch, 1925 (Araneae, Theraphosidae): new insights on male palpal bulb morphology and description of three new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 1022: 19–50. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.1022.3079. . Reference page. 
• Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., Ríos-Tamayo, D., León-Escalante, R.J., Drolshagen, B. & Sherwood, D. 2025a. On encrusted soil and mud: a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of the mud spider family Paratropididae Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) brings to light new species and genera. Invertebrate Zoology 22(4): 662–717. Full article (PDF).Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. 2025. Studies on spider nomenclature III: replacement names for three primary homonyms (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Arachnology 20(1): 37–38. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J. & Alayón García, G. 2025. A new species of Acanthoscurria Ausserer, 1871: proposal of the theraphosoidesspecies-group and first published record of the genus from Colombia (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Zootaxa 5563(1): 237–254. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5563.1.16. . Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Gabriel, R., Peñaherrera-Romero, P.J., León-Escalante, R.J., Rollard, C., Leguin, E.A., Brescovit, A.D. & Lucas, S.M. 2025a. On the identity of some taxa in the tarantula tribe Hapalopini, with two synonymies, and description of four new genera and three new species (Araneae: Theraphosidae). ZooNova 46: 1-23. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D. & Gallon, R.C. 2025. Heterothele erdosi, a new species of Heterothele Karsch, 1879 from Nigeria (Araneae: Theraphosidae). Natura Somogyiensis 45: 51-56. Reference page. 
• Sherwood, D., Warhol, V. & Bianco, A. 2025. Country roads, take me home: Cyclocosmia johndenveri, a new species of trapdoor spider from the mountains of West Virginia (Araneae: Halonoproctidae). Natura Somogyiensis 45: 27-40. Reference page. 
• Tripathi, R., Kadam, G., Sherwood, D. & Sudhikumar, A.V. 2025. Revision of Indian Ischnothelidae (Arachnida: Araneae) and descriptions of two new species of Indothele Coyle, 1995. European Journal of Taxonomy 981: 189–212. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2025.981.2827. . Reference page.