Dimitar Dimitrov

Qualifications

Ph.D. Zoology (2005). University of Barcelona. Spain
Diploma of Advanced Studies (2003). University of Barcelona. Spain.
D.S.P.U. in environmental management (1999). MaiCh. C.I.H.E.A.M. Greece
M.S. Biology (1998). Sofia University "Saint Climent Ohridsky". Bulgaria.

CURRENT APPOINTMENTS

Postdoctoral Researcher. Program of Excellence in Macroecology and Evolution at the University of Copenhagen. Danish Center for Macroecology and Evolution, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen, Denmark.
Adjunct Research Associate . Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University. Washington, D.C., USA.

Research Interests

- Spider taxonomy, evolution and systematics
- Molecular systematics, phylogenetics, phylogenomics, computational systematics
- Biodiversity modeling and conservation, biogeography and phylogeography

Publications

Dimitrov D., Hormiga G. In press. Description of Pinkfloydia, a remarkable new genus of tetragnathid spiders from Western Australia with an expanded hypothesis on the phylogeny of Tetragnathidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 42pp., 17 figures.

Dimitrov D., Hormiga G. In press. Mr. Darwin’s mysterious spider: On the type species of the genus Leucauge White, 1841 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae). ZOOTAXA 27 pp., 12 figures.

Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. In press. On the phylogenetic placement of the spider genus Atimiosa Simon, 1895 (Tetragnathidae, Araneae) and the circumscription of the genus Dolichognatha O.P.- Cambridge, 1869. American Museum Novitates 22 pp., 11 figures.

Dimitrov D., Benjamin S.P., Hormiga G. 2009. A revised phylogenetic hypothesis for the genus Clitaetra Simon, 1889 (Araneidae, Nephilidae) with the first description of the male of the Sri Lankan species Clitaetra thisbe Simon, 1903. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 159(6):301-323. (doi:10.3099/0027-4100-159.6.301)

Álvarez-Padilla F., Dimitrov D., Giribet G., Hormiga G. 2009. Phylogenetic relationships of the spider family Tetragnathidae (Araneae, Araneoidea) based on morphological and DNA sequence data. Cladistics 25:109-146. (doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00242.x)

Dimitrov D., Hormiga G. 2009. Revision and cladistic analysis of the orbweaving spider genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 317:1-140. PDF available via the AMNH research library (very large file).

Benjamin S.P., Dimitrov D., Gillespie R.G., Hormiga G. 2008. Family ties: molecular phylogeny of crab spiders (Araneae: Thomisidae). Cladistics 24(5):708-722. (doi:10.1111/j.1096-0031.2008.00202.x)

Dimitrov D., Arnedo M.A., Ribera C. 2008. Colonization and diversification of the spider genus Pholcus Walckenaer, 1805 (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the Macaronesian archipelagoes: Evidence for long-term occupancy yet rapid recent speciation. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48(2):596-614. (doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2008.04.027)

Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. 2008. Until dirt do us apart: on the unremarkable palp morphology of the spider Sternospina concretipalpis Schmidt & Krause, 1993, with comments on the genus Prionolaema Simon, 1894 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). ZOOTAXA 1698:49-56.

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2007. The genus Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) in the Canary Islands. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 151:59-114.

Dimitrov D., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. 2007. The female genitalic morphology of the orb weaving spider genus Agriognatha (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Journal of Morphology 268:758-770.

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2006. Three new species of Pholcus (Araneae, Pholcidae) from the Canary Islands with notes on the genus Pholcus in the archipelago. Journal of Arachnology 34(1):126-134.

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2005a. Description of Ossinissa, a new pholcid genus
from the Canary Islands (Araneae: Pholcidae). ZOOTAXA 982:1-13.

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2005b. Pholcus vachoni n. sp. (Araneae, Pholcidae) una
nueva especies de Agadir (Marruecos). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 11:3-6.

Borisova N., Antonova V., Delov V., Dimitrov D. 2005. Using GIS and remote
sensing in biogeography assessment in the karst terrain of Chepan Mountain and
Dragoman marshland (W Bulgaria). - In: Biodiversity, Ecosystems, Global
Changes. (Chipev, N., Bogoev,V. Eds.), I-st National Conference in Ecology,
Sofia, pp. 75-82.

Dimitrov D., Ribera C. 2003. Pholcus intricatus (Araneae, Pholcidae) una nueva
especie endémica de Tenerife (Islas Canarias). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología
8:7-11.

Dimitrov D., Lazarov S. 2002. Contribution to the Study of Spiders (Araneae) in Chepun Mountain and Dragoman Swampland (NW Bulgaria). Acta zoologica
bulgarica 54(2):47-53.

Web publications and resources

Dimitrov, D. 2009. Key to the species of the genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae). Review version 1.0. online at Key to the species of the genus Cyrtognatha Keyserling, 1881 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae)

Dimitrov, Dimitar. 2009. Pholcidae. Daddy-longleg spiders. Version 12 February 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Pholcidae/2719/2009.02.12 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Dimitrov, Dimitar and Gustavo Hormiga. 2009. Tetragnathidae Menge 1866. Version 09 March 2009 (under construction). http://tolweb.org/Tetragnathidae/2799/2009.03.09 in The Tree of Life Web Project, http://tolweb.org/

Alvarez-Padilla, F., D. Dimitrov, and G. Hormiga. 2009. TetraGen: Tetragnathid Genera of the World (Araneoidea: Tetragnathidae), An Illustrated Catalog. Pre-release version 1.0. The George Washington University, online at http://www.gwu.edu/~spiders/tetragen/index.cfm

Hormiga, G., D. Dimitrov, J.A. Miller, and F. Alvarez-Padilla. 2008. LinyGen: Linyphioid Genera of the World (Pimoidae and Linyphiidae), An Illustrated Catalog. Version 2.0. The George Washington University, online at http://www.gwu.edu/~linygen/index.cfm

Manuscripts in progress

Dimitrov D., Lopardo L., Giribet G., Arnedo M.A., Álvarez-Padilla F., Hormiga G. Phylogeny of araneoid spiders. How many outgroups? The effect of outgroup taxonomic sampling biases on phylogenies.

Dimitrov D., Lopardo L., Hormiga G. Revision and cladistic analysis of the spider genus Maymena Simon, 1922 (Araneae, Mysmenidae).

Dimitrov D., Hormiga G. On the validity of the tetragnathid genera Antillognatha Bryant, 1945 and Hispanognatha Bryant, 1945 (Araneae, Tetragnathidae): phylogenetic revision based on morphological and molecular evidence.