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"The 10 Most Common Phobias – Did You Know?". 10 Most Common Phobias. Archived from the original on 3 September 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009. Probably the most recognized of the 10 most common phobias, arachnophobia is the fear of spiders. The statistics clearly show that more than 50% of women and 10% of men show signs of this leader on the 10 most common phobias list.

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Fritscher, Lisa (3 June 2009). "Spider Fears or Arachnophobia". Phobias. About.com. Archived from the original on 19 June 2009. Retrieved 2 August 2009. Arachnophobia, or fear of spiders, is one of the most common specific phobias.

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Selden, P.A.; Anderson, H.M.; Anderson, J.M. (2009). "A review of the fossil record of spiders (Araneae) with special reference to Africa, and description of a new specimen from the Triassic Molteno Formation of South Africa". African Invertebrates. 50 (1): 105–16. Bibcode:2009AfrIn..50..105S. doi:10.5733/afin.050.0103. hdl:1808/17085. Abstract Archived 2011-08-10 at the Wayback Machine PDF

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Coddington, J. & Sobrevila, C. (1987). "Web manipulation and two stereotyped attack behaviors in the ogre-faced spider Deinopis spinosus Marx (Araneae, Deinopidae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 15: 213–25. Retrieved 11 October 2008.
Matsumoto, T. (1998). "Cooperative prey capture in the communal web spider, Philoponella raffray (Araneae, Uloboridae)" (PDF). Journal of Arachnology. 26: 392–96.

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Forster, R.R. & Platnick, N.I. (1984). "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives, with notes on the limits of the superfamily Palpimanoidea (Arachnida, Araneae)". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 178: 1–106. hdl:2246/991. Full text at "A review of the archaeid spiders and their relatives" (PDF). Retrieved 13 October 2008.

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"Natural history of Mygalomorphae". Agricultural Research Council of New Zealand. Archived from the original on 26 December 2008. Retrieved 13 October 2008.

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"Funnel web spiders". Australian Venom Research Unit. Retrieved 11 October 2008.

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"Pub chef bitten by deadly spider". BBC. 27 April 2005. Retrieved 11 October 2008.

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"Different smiles, single species". University of California Museum of Paleontology. Retrieved 10 October 2008.

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