Ligia R. Benavides* person

Collector (in 2 collections)

• IZ (1636 records) in years 2000-2021
• Mala (6 records) in years 2009-2017
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Collector (in 113 families)

• Arachnida: Actinopodidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Agelenidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Agoristenidae (23 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Anapidae (4 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Araneidae (44 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Assamiidae (63 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Atemnidae (4 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Biantidae (20 records) in years 2009-2012
• Arachnida: Bochicidae (8 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Caponiidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Cheliferidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Chernetidae (9 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Chthoniidae (33 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Corinnidae (9 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Cosmetidae (54 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Cranaidae (27 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Ctenidae (7 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Drymusidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Escadabiidae (2 records) in years 2004-2012
• Arachnida: Filistatidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Fissiphalliidae (4 records) in years 2004-2012
• Arachnida: Geogarypidae (5 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Gnaphosidae (4 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Gonyleptidae (5 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Guasiniidae (3 records) in year 2012
• Arachnida: Hahniidae (11 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Hersiliidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Hubbardiidae (38 records) in years 2004-2017
• Arachnida: Icaleptidae (9 records) in years 2004-2012
• Arachnida: Ideoroncidae (6 records) in years 2012-2017
• Arachnida: Kimulidae (25 records) in years 2012-2017
• Arachnida: Leptonetidae (1 record) in year 2016
• Arachnida: Linyphiidae (50 records) in years 2007-2016
• Arachnida: Lycosidae (2 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Manaosbiidae (30 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Mimetidae (30 records) in years 2008-2017
• Arachnida: Minuidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Mysmenidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Nemastomatidae (2 records) in year 2016
• Arachnida: Neogoveidae (65 records) in years 2000-2017
• Arachnida: Neopilionidae (2 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Ochyroceratidae (5 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Olpiidae (31 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Oonopidae (25 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Opilioacaridae (2 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Palpimanidae (7 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Phalangiidae (4 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Pholcidae (13 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Phrurolithidae (12 records) in years 2009-2016
• Arachnida: Phrynidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Pisauridae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Podoctidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Pyramidopidae (11 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Ricinoididae (42 records) in years 2004-2021
• Arachnida: Salticidae (17 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Samoidae (50 records) in years 2000-2017
• Arachnida: Sclerosomatidae (22 records) in years 2012-2017
• Arachnida: Scytodidae (8 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Segestriidae (3 records) in year 2009
• Arachnida: Senoculidae (1 record) in year 2016
• Arachnida: Sparassidae (3 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Stygnidae (35 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Stygnommatidae (12 records) in years 2004-2017
• Arachnida: Stygnopsidae (9 records) in year 2016
• Arachnida: Syarinidae (21 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Symphytoganthidae (3 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Symphytognathidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Tetrablemmidae (2 records) in year 2016
• Arachnida: Tetragnathidae (8 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Theraphosidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Theridiidae (17 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Theridiosomatidae (6 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Thomisidae (6 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: Tridenchthoniidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Trombidiidae (5 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Uloboridae (105 records) in years 2008-2017
• Arachnida: Withiidae (4 records) in year 2017
• Arachnida: Zalmoxidae (5 records) in years 2004-2017
• Arachnida: Zodariidae (13 records) in years 2009-2017
• Arachnida: [no family] (228 records) in years 2004-2017
• Chilopoda: Ballophilidae (8 records) in years 2004-2017
• Chilopoda: Cryptopidae (16 records) in years 2009-2017
• Chilopoda: Mecistocephalidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Chilopoda: Oryidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Chilopoda: Pselliodidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Chilopoda: Scolopendridae (7 records) in years 2012-2017
• Chilopoda: Scolopocryptopidae (29 records) in years 2004-2017
• Chilopoda: Scutigeridae (4 records) in year 2009
• Chilopoda: [no family] (107 records) in years 2000-2017
• Diplopoda: Chelodesmidae (2 records) in year 2009
• Diplopoda: Cryptodesmidae (2 records) in year 2012
• Diplopoda: Dalodesmidae (1 record) in year 2012
• Diplopoda: Fuhrmannodesmidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Diplopoda: Glomeridesmidae (1 record) in year 2012
• Diplopoda: Haplodesmidae (1 record) in year 2012
• Diplopoda: Oxydesmidae (2 records) in year 2009
• Diplopoda: Polyxenidae (2 records) in year 2017
• Diplopoda: Siphonocryptidae (1 record) in year 2017
• Diplopoda: Siphonophoridae (3 records) in years 2012-2017
• Diplopoda: Stemmiulidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Diplopoda: [no family] (51 records) in years 2009-2017
• Gastropoda: Fissurellidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Gastropoda: Littorinidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Gastropoda: Muricidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Gastropoda: Neritidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Gastropoda: Siphonariidae (1 record) in year 2009
• Gastropoda: [no family] (1 record) in year 2017
• Hexapoda: Japygidae (15 records) in years 2004-2017
• Hirudinea: [no family] (2 records) in year 2017
• Insecta: [no family] (1 record) in year 2017
• Pauropoda: Pauropodidae (1 record) in year 2015
• : Peripatidae (15 records) in years 2009-2017
• : [no family] (5 records) in years 2005-2017

Preparator (of material in 0 collections)

• Not a preparator of any material in MCZbase

Determiner (in 1 collection)

• 607 identifications for 516 Invertebrate Zoology cataloged items

Attribute Determiner (2 categories)

• age class for 1 Invertebrate Zoology specimens
• sex for 2 Invertebrate Zoology specimens

Publications (17) [Those Citing MCZ material (17)]

• Benavides, L. R., S. R. Daniels, and G. Giribet. 2021. Understanding the real magnitude of the arachnid order Ricinulei through deep Sanger sequencing across its distribution range and phylogenomics, with the formalization of the first species from the Lesser Antilles. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 0:1–24. doi: 10.1111/jzs.12546. 142 citations
• Benavides, L. R. and G. Giribet. 2013. A revision of selected clades of Neotropical mite harvestmen (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi, Neogoveidae) with the description of eight new species. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 161(1):1–44. 21 citations
• Benavides, L. R., R. Pinto da Rocha, and G. Giribet. 2021. The Phylogeny and Evolution of the Flashiest of the Armored Harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones. Systematic Biology 70(4):648–659. doi: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa080. 45 citations
• Murienne, J., L. R. Benavides, L. Prendini, G. Hormiga, G. Giribet. 2013. Forest refugia in Western and Central Africa as 'museums' of Mesozoic biodiversity. Biology Letters 9(1):1–7. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2012.0932. 35 citations
• Giribet, G., L. R. Benavides, and I. Merino-Sáinz. 2017. The systematics and biogeography of the mite harvestman family Sironidae (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with the description of five new species. Invertebrate Systematics 31:456–491. 62 citations
• Benavides, L. R. and G. Hormiga. 2016. Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species. Zootaxa 4046(1):1–72. 42 citations
• Benavides, L. R., C. Jiang, and G. Giribet. 2021. Mimopidae is the sister group to all other scolopendromorph centipedes (Chilopoda, Scolopendromorpha): a phylotranscriptomic approach. Organisms Diversity & Evolution 21:591–598. doi: 10.1007/s13127-021-00502-2. 21 citations
• Boyer, S. L., R. M. Clouse, L. R. Benavides, P. P. Sharma, P. J. Schwendinger, I. Karunarathna, G. Giribet. 2007. Biogeography of the world: a case study from cyphophthalmid Opiliones, a globally distributed group of arachnids. Journal of Biogeography 34(12):2070–2085. 12 citations
• Giribet, G., R. Buckman-Young, C. Sampaio Costa, C. M. Baker, L. R. Benavides, M. G. Branstetter, S. R. Daniels, R. Pinto da Rocha. 2018. The 'Peripatos' in Eurogondwana? --Lack of evidence that south-east Asian onychophorans walked through Europe. Invertebrate Systematics 32:842–865. doi: 10.1071/IS18007. 112 citations
• Giribet, G., P. P. Sharma, L. R. Benavides, S. L. Boyer, R. M. Clouse, B. de Bivort, D. Dimitrov, G. Y. Kawauchi, J. Murienne, and P. J. Schwendinger. 2012. Evolutionary and biogeographical history of an ancient and global group of arachnids (Arachnida: Opiliones: Cyphophthalmi) with a new taxonomic arrangement. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 105(1):92–130. doi:10.1111/j.1095-8312.2011.01774.x. 14 citations
• Derkarabetian, S., L. R. Benavides, and G. Giribet. 2019. Sequence capture phylogenomics of historical ethanol-preserved museum specimens: Unlocking the rest of the vault. Molecular Ecology Resources 19(6):1531–1544. doi: 10.1111/1755-0998.13072. 28 citations
• Sato, S., S. Derkarabetian, A. Valdez-Mondragón, A. Pérez-González, L. R. Benavides, S. R. Daniels, and G. Giribet. 2024. Under the hood: Phylogenomics of hooded tick spiders (Arachnida, Ricinulei) uncovers discordance between morphology and molecules. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 193((2024) 108026):1–10. doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108026. 93 citations
• Benavides, L. R., G. Hormiga, and G. Giribet. 2019. Phylogeny, evolution and systematic revision of the mite harvestman family Neogoveidae (Opiliones Cyphophthalmi). Invertebrate Systematics 33:101–180. 138 citations
• Wheeler, W. C., J. A. Coddington, L. M. Crowley, D. Dimitrov, P. A. Goloboff, C. E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, L. Prendini, M. J. Ramírez, P. Sierwald, L. Almeida-Silva, F. Álvarez-Padilla, M. A. Arnedo, L. R. Benavides Silva, S. P. Benjamin, J. E. Bond, C. J. Grismado, E. Hasan, M. Hedin, M. A. Izquierdo, F. M. Labarque, J. Ledford, L. Lopardo, W. P. Maddison, J. A. Miller, L. N. Piacentini, N. I. Platnick, D. Polotow, D. Silva-Dávila, N. Scharff, T. Szűts, D. Ubick, C. J. Vink, H. M. Wood, and J. Zhang. 2017. The spider tree of life: phylogeny of Araneae based on target-gene analyses from an extensive taxon sampling. Cladistics 33:574–616. doi:10.1111/cla.12182. 2 citations
• Benavides, L. R., J. G. Cosgrove, M. S. Harvey, and G. Giribet. 2019. Phylogenomic interrogation resolves the backbone of the Pseudoscorpiones Tree of Life. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution:2–49. 35 citations
• Benavides, L. R. and G. Hormiga. 2020. A morphological and combined phylogenetic analysis of pirate spiders (Araneae, Mimetidae): evolutionary relationships, taxonomy, and character evolution. Invertebrate Systematics 34(2):144–191. doi: 10.1071/IS19032. 5 citations
• Benavides, L. R., G. D. Edgecombe, and G. Giribet. 2022. Re-evaluating and dating myriapod diversification with phylotranscriptomics under a regime of dense taxon sampling. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 178((2023) 107621):1–15. 38 citations