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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 ...
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]
The spider species Araneus diadematus is commonly called the European garden spider, cross orbweaver, diadem spider, orangie, cross spider, and crowned orb weaver. It is sometimes called the pumpkin spider , [ 2 ] although this name is also used for a different species, Araneus marmoreus . [ 3 ]
British Arachnological Society (BAS) website; ... Spider Myths: Spiders are Easy to Identify This page was last edited on 11 November 2024, at 14:56 (UTC). Text ...
Psyche - A Journal of Entomology.Online archive from 1957 to 2000. Possibly released under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which essentially means that we can extract pictures and text as we wish and include it in WP, as long as we tell where we got it from; however, if this is correct, we need to find a link stating this for archived articles rather than new ones.
Paintings of Araneus angulatus from Svenska Spindlar of 1757, the first major work on spider taxonomy. Spider taxonomy is the part of taxonomy that is concerned with the science of naming, defining and classifying all spiders, members of the Araneae order of the arthropod class Arachnida, which has more than 48,500 described species. [1]
Steatoda nobilis has a brown bulbous abdomen with cream coloured markings that are often likened to the shape of a skull. [11] Their legs are reddish-orange. [12] Both female and male S. nobilis can be distinguished from other spiders of the same genus by their large size and typical colouration.
Predators of Pisaura mirabilis includes spider wasps, tree frogs, lizards, and song birds during the day, and toads, shrew mice, and bats at night. Other spider species, as well as from the same species (cannibalism), consider P. mirabilis as prey. Nursery web spiders are often parasitised by nematodes, parasitic wasps, and Acari. These ...