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The Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society is a more informal publication, including observations on arachnids and other short papers of academic interest, reports of meetings, obituaries, historical notes and book reviews, etc. Running to 155 volumes as of 2022, it was originally edited by John Parker (issues 1–50), then John ...
Active in the field especially in the 1970s and 1980s, he described several dozen taxa, in particular among the spiders of the Salticidae family. [2] Wanless played a significant role in the British Arachnological Society being its member in 1969–1973, 1974–1976 and 1986–1989, and Meetings Secretary in 1973–1978. [1]
Arachnologia Belgica – Belgian Arachnological Society (ARABEL) website; Arachnologische Gesellschaft (AraGes) website Archived 2016-10-23 at the Wayback Machine; Association Francaise d'Arachnologie (AsFrA) website; British Arachnological Society (BAS) website; Czech Arachnological Society website; European Society of Arachnology (ESA ...
A Redefinition of Misumenops F.O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900 (Araneae, Thomisidae) and Review of the New World Species. Bull. of the British Arachnological Soc. 14 (4): 27 pp. Editor British Arachn. Soc. Pekka T. Lehtinen. 1981. Spiders of the Oriental-Australian Region, III: Tetrablemmidae, with a World Revision. Acta zoologica Fennica 162.
Van Helsdinger also wrote an obituary for Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, [2] which was reprinted in the newsletter for the American Arachnological Society. [27] Chrysanthus's collection of New Guinea spiders was deposited in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie ; his collection of spiders from South Limburg is now in the ...
Toxopidae is a small family of araneomorph spiders, first described in 1940. [2] For many years it was sunk into Desidae as a subfamily, although doubts were expressed as to whether this was correct. [3] A large-scale molecular phylogenetic study in 2016 led to the family being revived. [4]
Spiders in this genus mainly catch and feed on ants (myrmecophagy). A Southeast Asian species of the genus Aelurillus has been observed to jump around 30-40 times its body length straight onto the back of a large gnaphosid spider and kill it. [3] They like hot, dry, stony places or small bare open areas with dead twigs or similar amongst low ...
The International Society of Arachnology (ISA) promotes the study of arachnids and the exchange of information among researchers in this field. [1] It acts as an umbrella organisation for regional societies and individuals interested in spiders, and related animals, and organises an International Congress every three years. [citation needed]