Jeremy Wilson
Curator - Arachnids and Myriapods
Qualifications
BSc (Hons), PhD (Griffith University, QLD)
Research
Revision of the Australian wishbone spiders (Aname)
Biogeography and evolutionary biology of the Australian wishbone spiders (Aname)
Systematics and evolution of Australian idiopids
Evolution of mygalomorph (trapdoor spiders) morphology and behaviour
Selected Publications
Wilson, JD, Raven, RJ, Schmidt, DJ, Hughes, JM & Rix, MG. (2020). Total-evidence analysis of an undescribed fauna: resolving the evolution and classification of Australia’s golden trapdoor spiders (Idiopidae: Arbanitinae: Euoplini). Cladistics 36: 543–568. https://doi.org/10.1111/cla.12415
Wilson, JD, Rix, MG, Schmidt, DJ, Hughes, JM & Raven, RJ. (2021). Systematics of the spiny trapdoor spider genus &Cryptoforis (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae: Euoplini): documenting an enigmatic lineage from the eastern Australian mesic zone. Journal of Arachnology 49: 28–90. https://doi.org/10.1636/JoA-S-18-100
Wilson JD, Mongiardino Koch N & Ramirez MJ. (2022). Chronogram or phylogram for ancestral state estimation? Model-fit statistics indicate the branch lengths underlying a binary character’s evolution. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13: 1679–1689. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13872
Wilson JD, Bond JE, Harvey MS, Ramírez MJ & Rix, MG. (2023). Correlation with a limited set of behavioral niches explains the convergence of somatic morphology in mygalomorph spiders. Ecology and Evolution 13: e9706. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9706
Wilson JD, Harvey MS, Simmons LW & Rix, MG. (2025). An integrative systematic revision of the wishbone spiders (Araneae: Anamidae: Aname L. Koch, 1873) of subtropical and tropical eastern Australia, with the description of 55 new species. European Journal of Taxonomy 985: 1–298. https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.985.2845
