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Main, B. Y. (1976). Spiders. Collins Sydney, 296 pp.
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Main, B. Y. (1977a). Preliminary notes towards a revision of the mygalomorph spider genus Dyarcyops (Ctenizidae). Australian Entomological Magazine 4: 69-72.
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Main, B. Y. (1982d). Notes on the reduced web, behaviour and prey of Arcys nitidiceps Simon (Araneidae) in south Western Australia. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 425-432.
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Main, B. Y. (1996). Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: description of a new species of Missulena from southwestern Australia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 17: 355-359.
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Main, B. Y. (1991). Occurrence of the trapdoor spider genus Moggridgea in Australia with descriptions of two new species (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Migidae). Journal of Natural History 25(2): 383-397. doi:10.1080/00222939100770271
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Main, B. Y. (1985d). Further studies on Australian Diplurinae: a review of the genera of the Teylini (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33(5): 743-759. doi:10.1071/ZO9850743
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Main, B. Y. (1985b). Mygalomorphae. Zoological Catalogue of Australia 3: 1-48.
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Main, B. Y. (1985c). Further studies on the systematics of Australian ctenizid trapdoor spiders: Description of a new species of Homogona Rainbow from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). The Victorian Naturalist 102: 16-19.
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Main, B. Y. (1986b). Trapdoors of Australian mygalomorph spiders: Protection or predation?. Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia. Barcelona 1: 95-102.
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Main, B. Y. (1988). The biology of a social thomisid spider. Australian Entomological Society Miscellaneous Publication 5: 55-73.
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Main, B. Y. (1995). Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae). The Victorian Naturalist 112: 202-207.
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Main, B. Y. (1957b). Occurrence of the trap-door spider Conothele malayana (Doleschall) in Australia [Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae]. The Western Australian Naturalist 5: 209-216.
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Main, B. Y. (1969b). The trap-door spider genus Cataxia Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae)-taxonomy and natural history. Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 8: 192-209.
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Main, B. Y. (1975). The citrine spider: a new genus of trapdoor spider (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). The Western Australian Naturalist 13: 73-78.
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Main, B. Y. (1977b). Spiders. In: The Natural History of the Wongan Hills. Western Australian Naturalists Club Perth, pp. 100-107.
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Main, B. Y. (1982a). Notes on the revised taxonomic position of the black wishbone spider Dekana diversicolor Hogg (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 65: 25-29.
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Main, B. Y. (1993b). Biogeographic significance of the Nullarbor cave mygalomorph spider Troglodiplura and its taxonomic affinities. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 76: 77-85.
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Main, B. Y. (2000). Biosystematics of two new species of unusually coloured Australian mygalomorph spiders, Arbanitis (Araneae: Idiopidae), from south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 83: 93-97.
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Main, B. Y. (1964). Spiders of Australia: a guide to their identification with brief notes on the natural history of common forms. Jacaranda Press Brisbane, 124 pp.
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Main, B. Y. (1982c). Some zoogeographic considerations of families of spiders occurring in New Guinea. Monographiae Biologicae 42: 583-602.
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Main, B. Y. (2008). A new species of the mygalomorph spider genus Yilgarnia from the Western Australian wheatbelt (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 24: 321-324.
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Main, B. Y. (1986a). Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): A new genus from south-western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum 12: 395-402.
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Main, B. Y. (1994). Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: Description of a new species of Aname and its aerial tube (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 77: 65-69.
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Main, B. Y. (1952). Notes on the genus Idiosoma, a supposedly rare Western Australian trap-door spider. The Western Australian Naturalist 3: 130-137.
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Main, B. Y. (1960). The genus Cethegus Thorell (Mygalomorphae: Macrothelinae). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 43: 30-34.
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Main, B. Y. (1971). The common 'colonial' spider Ixeuticus candidus (Koch) and its synonyms (Dictynidae: Araneae). Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 54: 119-120.
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Main, B. Y. (1982b). Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae, Dipluridae): The taxonomic status of Proshermacha Simon and Chenistonia tepperi Hogg. Australian Entomological Magazine 8: 83-88.
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Main, B. Y. (1983a). Systematics of the trapdoor spider genus Homogona Rainbow (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae: Homogoninae). Journal of the Australian Entomological Society 22: 81-92.
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Main, B. Y. (1957a). Biology of aganippine trapdoor spiders (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology 5(4): 402-473. doi:10.1071/ZO9570402
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Main, B. Y. (1985a). Further studies on the systematics of ctenizid trapdoor spiders: a review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology Supplementary Series 108: 1-84. doi:10.1071/AJZS108
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Main, B. Y. (2004). Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three new species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61: 47-55.
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Main, B. Y. (2012). Description and biogeographic implications of a new species of the Chenistonia maculata group from south-western Western Australia and rediagnosis of Chenistonia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 176-181.
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Main, B. Y. (1954). Spiders and Opiliones. In: The Archipelago of the Recherche. Australian Geographic Society Reports 1, 37-53.
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Main, B. Y. (1969a). A blind mygalomorph spider from a Nullarbor Plain cave. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 52: 9-11.
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Main, B. Y. (1972). The mygalomorph spider genus Stanwellia Rainbow & Pulleine (Dipluridae) and its relationship to Aname Koch and certain other diplurine genera. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 55: 100-114.
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Main, B. Y. (1987). A new genus of clubionoid spider from Western Australia (Arachnida: Araneomorphae). Australian Entomological Magazine 13: 77-81.
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Main, B. Y. (1993a). From flood avoidance to foraging: adaptive shifts in trapdoor spider behaviour. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 33: 599-606.
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Main, B. Y. (1983b). Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south Western Australia. Journal of Natural History 17(6): 923-949. doi:10.1080/00222938300770731
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Main, B. Y. & Mascord, R. (1974). Description and natural history of a "tube-building" species of Dyarcyops from New South Wales and Queensland (Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia, New South Wales 8: 15-21.
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Main, B. Y. & Mascord, R. (1969). A new genus of diplurid spider (Araneae: Mygalomorphae) from New South Wales. Journal of the Entomological Society of Australia, New South Wales 6: 24-30.
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Harvey, M. S. & Main, B. Y. (1996). A note on the type locality of Dekana diversicolor Hogg. Australasian Arachnology 51: 5-6.
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Main, B. Y. & Gray, M. R. (1985). Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): description of the male of Troglodiplura lowryi, with notes on its affinities. Psyche, Cambridge 92(1): 151-162. doi:10.1155/1985/49368
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Main, B. Y. & Framenau, V. W. (2009). A new genus of mygalomorph spider from the Great Victoria Desert and neighbouring arid country in south-eastern Western Australia (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25(3): 277-285. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.277-285
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Main, B. Y. & Harvey, M. S. (1992). Type material of spiders (Chelicerata: Araneae) collected on the Michaelsen and Hartmeyer Expedition of 1905 and lodged in the Western Australian Museum. Records of the Western Australian Museum 15(4): 703-712.
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Framenau, V. W., Main, B. Y., Harvey, M. S. & Waldock, J. M. (2009). Tapetosa, a new monotypic wolf spider genus from Western Australia (Araneae: Lycosidae: Lycosinae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25(3): 309-314. doi:10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.309-314
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Rix, M. G., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J. & Harvey, M. S. (2018a). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Eucanippe (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Aganippini) from south-western Australia: documenting a poorly-known lineage from Australia's biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Arachnology 46(1): 133-154 & Appendix "Atlas of male morphology spiny trapdoor spiders (genus Eucanippe)". doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-030.1
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Harvey, M. S., Main, B. Y., Rix, M. G. & Cooper, S. J. B. (2015). Refugia within refugia: in situ speciation and conservation of threatened Bertmainius (Araneae: Migidae), a new genus of relictual trapdoor spiders endemic to the mesic zone of south-western Australia. Invertebrate Systematics 29(6): 511-553. doi:10.1071/IS15024
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Rix, M. G., Bain, K., Main, B. Y., Raven, R. J., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017b). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spiders of the genus Cataxia (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae) from south-western Australia: documenting a threatened fauna in a sky-island landscape. Journal of Arachnology 45(3): 395-423 & Suppl. 1-3. doi:10.1636/JoA-S-17-012.1
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Harvey, M. S., Hillyer, M. J., Main, B. Y., Moulds, T. A., Raven, R. J., Rix, M. G., Vink, C. J. & Huey, J. A. (2018). Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111
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Rix, M. G., Raven, R. J., Main, B. Y., Harrison, S. E., Austin, A. D., Cooper, S. J. B. & Harvey, M. S. (2017a). The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae: Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. doi:10.1071/IS16065
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