Arachnological Links

Below is a selection of arachnological links. If you know a website which you would like to see listed, please contact Cor Vink.

Check also our web page ‘Arachnologists’ for personal home pages of some of our colleagues.

The Arachnology Home Page

• The Arachnology Home Page
  Maintained by Herman Vanuyten, the Arachnology Home Page is arguably the best source of information on everything dealing with eight legs!

Arachnological Societies World Wide

• International Society of Arachnology
• American Arachnological Society
• European Society of Arachnology
• British Arachnological Society
• ARAGES – Arachnologische Gesellschaft (German)
• The Canadian Arachnologist, maintained by David Shorthouse
• ARABEL (Belgian Arachnological Society)
• The Australian Tarantula Association
• African Arachnological Society (AFRAS)

Communication

• Topica Email List Directory ‘Arachnology’

Taxonomy and Systematics

• Australian Biological Resource Study
• Tree Of Life, Arachnida
• Encyclopedia of Life, Arachnida

Photographic Identification of Australian Arachnids

• Flicker Group with life photographs of Australian spiders
• Volker Framenau's Flickr Group of Australian Spiders (life photographs)
• Encyclopedia of Life, Arachnida

Arachnids

• The World Spider Catalogue, by Norman I. Platnick
• The Scorpion Files. Everything about Scorpions!
• The Acarology Home Page
• The Pseudoscorpions of the World, by Mark Harvey
• Jumping Spiders (Salticidae) of the World, by Wayne Maddison and Jerzey Proszynski
• Spiders of Australia, by Ed Nieuwenhuys
• Venomous Spiders, by Peter Hansen

Collections

Links to collections with catalogues of arachnid material, in particular type material from our region.

• The collection of the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt can be searched through their SeSam Collection Management System.
• The arachnology website of the Western Australian Museum provides lists of the types in the collection.
• The Australian Museum maintains a Arachnology Types Database.

Conferences

• 19th International Congress of Arachnology, Kenting National Park, Taiwan, 23-28 June 2013
• Australasian Arachnological Society Conference, Hobart, Tasmania, 25-28 November 2012