Origin and diversification of free-living stick spiders of Sri Lanka including the description of four new species of Rhomphaea L. Koch, 1872 and two new species of Neospintharus Exline, 1950

• Mathura Tharmarajan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suresh.benjamin@gmail.com (SPB); mawva9@gmail.com (MT)

  Affiliation National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

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• Suresh P. Benjamin

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suresh.benjamin@gmail.com (SPB); mawva9@gmail.com (MT)

  Affiliation National Institute of Fundamental Studies, Kandy, Sri Lanka

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4666-0330

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