SDSU undergraduates, SDSU Graduate Students, SDSU Postdocs, Dr. Hedin
2025
Hedin M, Ramírez MJ, Monjaraz-Ruedas R. 2025. Phylogenomics of North American cybaeid spiders (Araneae, Cybaeidae), including the description of new taxa from the Klamath Mountains Geomorphic Province. Zookeys. 6;1226:47-75. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1226.140204.
Yan LHuh NJIbañez D IVRosenthal MFO Elias. 2025. Latent preference for red ornamentation drives interspecific mating in nascent jumping spider species (Habronattus americanus group, F. Salticidae). Proc Biol Sci 292 (2053): 20242754. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2024.2754
2024
Azevedo GH, M Hedin, WP Maddison. 2024. Phylogeny and biogeography of harmochirine jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 197, p.108109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2024.108109
Monjaraz-Ruedas R, Starrett J, Leavitt D, M Hedin. 2024. Broken ring speciation in California mygalomorph spiders (Nemesiidae, Calisoga). The American Naturalist 204(1), 55-72. https://doi.org/10.1086/730262
Bougie TC, A Brelsford, M Hedin. 2024. High sexual display trait diversity without measured genetic divergence in a montane hybrid zone involving young species (Araneae, Salticidae, Habronattus americanus subgroup). Insect Systematics & Diversity 8 (1) https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixae001
2023
Azevedo GHF, Blair J & M Hedin. 2023 Evaluating possible anthropogenic impacts on gene flow and loss of genetic diversity in endangered Madla Cave Meshweaver spiders (Hahniidae, Cicurina madla). Conservation Genetics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-023-01561-y
Monjaraz-Ruedas R, Mendez RW, M Hedin. 2023 Species delimitation, biogeography, and natural history of dwarf funnel web spiders (Mygalomorphae, Hexurellidae, Hexurella) from the United States / Mexico borderlands. ZooKeys 1167: 109-157. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1167.103463
Hedin M, MA Milne. 2023. New species in old mountains: integrative taxonomy reveals ten new species and extensive short-range endemism in Nesticus spiders (Araneae, Nesticidae) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. ZooKeys 1145: 1-130. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1145.96724
Kurczewski FE, M Hedin, RC West. 2023. Nesting behavior of the spider wasp Calopompilus pyrrhomelas (Walker)(Hymenoptera: Pompilidae). Insecta Mundi 0980, 1-7.
2022
Azevedo GHF, T Bougie, M Carboni, M Hedin, MJ Ramírez.. 2022. Convergence, hemiplasy and correlated evolution shape morphological diversity related to web-less lifestyle in the two-clawed spiders. Insect Systematics & Diversity 6(5), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixac020
Derkarabetian S, J Starrett, M Hedin. 2022. Using natural history to guide supervised machine learning for cryptic species delimitation with genetic data. Front Zool 19: 8. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12983-022-00453-0
Ciaccio E, A Debray, M Hedin. 2022. Phylogenomics of paleoendemic lampshade spiders (Araneae, Hypochilidae, Hypochilus), with the description of a new species from montane California. ZooKeys 1086: 163-204. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1086.77190
Derkarabetian S, P Paquin, J Reddell, M Hedin. 2022. Conservation genomics of federally endangered Texella harvester species (Arachnida, Opiliones, Phalangodidae) from cave and karst habitats of central Texas. Conservation Genetics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-022-01427-9
Azevedo GHF, T Bougie, M Carboni, M Hedin, MJ Ramírez.. 2022. Combining genomic, phenotypic and Sanger sequencing data to elucidate the phylogeny of the two-clawed spiders (Dionycha). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 166, 107327. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107327
2021
Bougie TC, A Brelsford, M Hedin. 2021. Evolutionary impacts of introgressive hybridization in a rapidly evolving group of jumping spiders (F. Salticidae, Habronattus americanus group), Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 161, 107165,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2021.107165.
Derkarabetian S, CM Baker, M Hedin, CE Prieto & G Giribet. 2021. Phylogenomic reevaluation of Triaenonychoidea (Opiliones : Laniatores), and systematics of Triaenonychidae, including new families, genera, and species. Invertebrate Systematics 35, 133–157. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS20047
Ledford J, S Derkarabetian, C Griswold, C Ribera & M Hedin. 2021. Phylogenomics and Holarctic biogeography of leptonetid spiders (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Invertebrate Systematics 35 (3), 332-349.
Girard MD, DO Elias, G Azevedo, K Bi, MM Kasumovic, JM Waldock, EB Rosenblum & M Hedin. 2021. Molecular phylogenomics of peacock spiders and their kin (Maratus, Euophryinae, Salticidae), with implications for the evolution of male courtship displays. Biol J Linn Society, https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaa165
Ramírez MJ, ILF Magalhaes, S Derkarabetian, J Ledford, CE Griswold, HM Wood & M Hedin 2021. Sequence-capture phylogenomics of true spiders reveals convergent evolution of respiratory systems. Systematic Biology 70 (1), 14–20. https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaa043
Rivera C, M Hedin, AC Mason, WP Maddison & DO Elias. 2021 Complex courtship in the Habronattus clypeatus group (Araneae, Salticidae). The Journal of Arachnology 48 (3), 221-232.

