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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 ...
Aphantaulax trifasciata is a species of ground spider in the genus ... (2007). Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St Neots, Cambs 1, i-xii ...
Fred R. Wanless (1940 – 15 December 2017) was a British arachnologist. [1] 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]
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 ...
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 ...
Uloborus plumipes is a species of Old World cribellate spider in the family Uloboridae. Common names include the feather-legged lace weaver and the garden centre spider, the latter name being due to its frequent occurrence of this spider in garden centres. The species name is derived from the Latin pluma "feather" and pes "foot". Females grow ...
Pholcus phalangioides, commonly known as the cosmopolitan cellar spider, long-bodied cellar spider, or one of various types called a daddy long-legs spider, is a spider of the family Pholcidae. This is the only spider species described by the Swiss entomologist Johann Kaspar Füssli , who first recorded it in 1775. [ 1 ]
The Araneomorphae (also called the Labidognatha or "true spiders" [1]) are an infraorder of spiders. They are distinguishable by chelicerae (fangs) that point diagonally forward and cross in a pinching action, in contrast to the Mygalomorphae (tarantulas and their close kin), where they point straight down.