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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]
The reference below need to be included in the section of checklist: Norma-Rashid, Y. & D. Li. 2009. A checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Peninsular Malaysia inclusive of twenty new records. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 57(2): 305-322. the pdf format can be uploaded online
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]
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Attulus caricis is a species of spider in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders). It has a Palearctic distribution, [ 1 ] including Britain . [ 2 ] Until 2017, it was placed in the genus Sitticus .
Striking characteristics of Pisaura mirabilis are its long legs (the fourth pair being the longest) and its slender abdomen (opisthosoma).The male is between 10 and 13 mm, while the female is 12 to 15 mm. [1] After final ecdysis, the male spiders weigh on average 54 mg and females 68 mg.
Although prey is usually consumed underwater in the diving bell, it is occasionally brought to the surface. A. aquatica is the only known species of spider that spends almost all its life underwater, including resting, catching and eating prey, mating, egg laying, and overwintering.