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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 ...
Miturgidae is a family of araneomorph spiders that includes nearly 170 species in 29 genera worldwide. [1] First described by Eugène Simon in 1886, [2] it has been substantially revised, and includes the previous family Zoridae as a synonym, [3] and excludes the family Xenoctenidae. [4]
Zelotes subterraneus is a species of ground spider from the family Gnaphosidae which has a Palearctic distribution. it is the type species of the genus Zelotes. [1] Its distribution may be somewhat masked by the difficulty of distinguishing this species from Zelotes apricorum [2] and Zelotes latreillei. [3]
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 ]