Madagascar is well known for the high endemicity levels exhibited by many taxa. Sparassid
spiders are not an exception inasmuch as about half of the recognized genera and 90% of
the described species appear to be restricted to this island. Although there are currently only
35 sparassid species described from Madagascar (Platnick 2004), this number has been
more than tripled as a result of our ongoing study. An extensive faunal survey of spiders from
Madagascar over a period of three years using various collecting techniques, in addition to …