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The British Arachnological Society (BAS) is the UK’s first body devoted exclusively to the study of arachnids. The primary objectives of the Society are to encourage interest in arachnology in people of all ages and to generate, promote and disseminate arachnological knowledge and understanding by all suitable means.
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]
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 ...
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 ...
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 Spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. ... Gnaphosid genera of the world. British Arachnological Society, St ...
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.
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 ]