1954

• Main, B.Y. 1954. Spiders and Opiliones. In: The Archipelago of the Recherche. Australian Geographic Society Reports 1: 37-53. Reference page. 

1969

• Main, B.Y. 1969. A blind mygalomorph spider from a Nullarbor Plain cave. Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia 52: 9-11. Reference page. 

1975

• Main, B.Y. 1975. The citrine spider: a new genus of trapdoor spider (Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). The Western Australian Naturalist 13: 73–78. Reference page. 

1977

• Main, B.Y. 1977. Spiders. In: The Natural History of the Wongan Hills. Western Australian Naturalists Club, Perth: 100-107. Reference page. 

1983

• Main, B.Y. 1983. Further studies on the systematics of Australian Diplurinae (Chelicerata: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae): Two new genera from south Western Australia. Journal of Natural History 17: 923-949. Reference page. 

1985

• Main, B.Y. 1985. Further studies on the systematics of ctenizid trapdoor spiders: A review of the Australian genera (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Ctenizidae). Australian Journal of Zoology (suppl. Ser.) 108: 1-84. Reference page. 

• Main, B.Y. 1985a. Further studies on Australian Diplurinae: A review of the genera of the Teylini (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Dipluridae). Australian Journal of Zoology 33: 743-759. Reference page. 

1987

• Main, B.Y. 1987. A new genus of clubionoid spider from Western Australia (Arachnida: Araneomorphae). Australian Entomological Magazine 13, 77–81. Reference page. 

1995

• Main, B.Y. 1995. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: two new species of Arbanitis from Victoria (Mygalomorphae: Idiopidae). The Victorian Naturalist 112: 202-207. Reference page. .

2000

• Main, B.Y. 2000. Biosystematics of two new species of unusually coloured Australian mygalomorph spiders, Arbanitis (Araneae: Idiopidae), from south-western Australia. Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia 83: 93-97. Reference page. 

2004

• Main, B.Y. 2004. Biosystematics of Australian mygalomorph spiders: descriptions of three new species of Teyl from Victoria (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 61: 47-55. Reference page. 

2009

• Main, B.Y. & Framenau, V.W. 2009. A new genus of mygalomorph spider from the Great Victoria Desert and neighbouring arid country in south-eastern Western Australia (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 25: 277-285. DOI: 10.18195/issn.0312-3162.25(3).2009.277-285 . Reference page. 

2012

• Main, B.Y. 2012. Description and biogeographic implications of a new species of the Chenistonia maculata group from south-western Western Australia and rediagnosis of Chenistonia (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Records of the Western Australian Museum 27: 176-181. Reference page. 

2017

• Rix, M.G., Raven, R.J., Main, B.Y., Harrison, S.E., Austin, A.D., Cooper, S.J.B. & Harvey, M.S. 2017. The Australasian spiny trapdoor spiders of the family Idiopidae (Mygalomorphae : Arbanitinae): a relimitation and revision at the generic level. Invertebrate Systematics 31(5): 566-634. DOI: 10.1071/IS16065 . Reference page. 

2018

• Harvey, M.S., Hillyer, M.J., Main, B.Y., Moulds, T.A., Raven, R.J., Rix, M.G., Vink, C.J. & Huey, J.A. 2018. Phylogenetic relationships of the Australasian open-holed trapdoor spiders (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae: Anaminae): multi-locus molecular analyses resolve the generic classification of a highly diverse fauna. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 407-452. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx111 . Reference page.