L. Koch and Graf E. von Keyserling: Die Arachniden Australiens

"Die Arachniden Australiens, nach der Natur beschrieben und abgebildet", the monumental work by L. Koch (1871 - 1881), continued by Graf E. von Keyserling (1885 - 1890), remains the benchmark literature on Australian arachnids up until today.

Danilo Harms (Museum of Natural History, Humboldt University Berlin) has scanned Koch and Keyserling's "Die Arachniden Australiens" and provided the pdf-files to the Australasian Arachnological Society for download from our website. Thanks Danilo!

Author, year and pagination of each of the fascicules below follow the bibliographic section of the World Spider Catalog.

Please note that the figure plates are in two separate files for each of the two volumes.

Volume 1 (1871 - 1883)

• Koch, L. 1871. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1-104 [download (2.7MB)].
• Koch, L. 1872. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 105-368 [download (6.5MB)].
• Koch, L. 1873. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 369-471 [download (2.5MB)].
• Koch, L. 1874. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 473-576 [download (2.2MB)].
• Koch, L. 1875. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 577-740 [download (3.4MB)].
• Koch, L. 1876. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 741-888 [download (2.7MB)].
• Koch, L. 1877. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 889-968 [download (1.6MB)].
• Koch, L. 1878. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 969-1044 [download (1.5MB)].
• Koch, L. 1879. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1145-1156 [download (2.2MB)].
• Koch, L. 1880. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1157-1212 [download (1.2MB)].
• Koch, L. 1881. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1213-1271 [download (1.2MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1881. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1272-1324 [download (1.0MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1882. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1325-1420 [download (1.8MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1883. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: 1421-1489 [download (1.3MB)].
• Koch and Keyserling, E. 1871-1883. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: plates I - LXII [download (3.9MB)].
• Koch and Keyserling, E. 1871-1883. Die Arachniden Australiens 1: plates LXIII - CXXIII [download (4.2MB)].

Volume 2 (1885 - 1890)

• Keyserling, E. 1885. Die Arachniden Australiens 2: 1-86 [download (6.8MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1886. Die Arachniden Australiens 2: 87-152 [download (4.9MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1887. Die Arachniden Australiens 2: 153-232 [download (5.6MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1890. Die Arachniden Australiens 2: 233-274 [download (2.9MB)].
• Keyserling, E. 1885-1890. Die Arachniden Australiens 2: plates I - XXIV [download (2.9MB)].