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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]
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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]
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 ...
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 ...
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]
In 1924, Richard Hingston was the naturalist on the British expedition to Mount Everest. In 1925, he reported that spiders had been observed living permanently in rocky areas surrounded by snow and ice at 6,700 m (22,000 ft), about 1,200 m (4,000 ft) above the highest plant growth. [ 2 ]