Spiders have been suspected to be one of the most important groups of natural enemies of
insects worldwide. To document the impact of the global spider community as insect …

1. Frequency of singletons–species represented by single individuals–is anomalously high
in most large tropical arthropod surveys (average, 32%). 2. We sampled 5965 adult spiders …

We investigated the effect of plot-based and unrestricted (plot-less) sampling on an
inventory of a megadiverse taxon, spiders, in an Afrotropical forest for the purpose of species …

New World pholcids are revised at the generic level, with an emphasis on South America. A
total of 47 extant genera occur in the New World, 22 of which are newly described. A …

Terrestrial arthropod surveys and inventories frequently suffer from undersampling bias;
common species are over-represented and rare species may be missed entirely. This study …

The field of systematics involves at least three major elements: biodiversity exploration
(inventory); taxonomic discovery and description (taxonomy); and the estimation of …

We present a species list of spiders collected over a period of more than 5 years in a
rainforest reserve in central Amazonia-Reserva Ducke. The list is mainly based on intense …

The species-rich Southeast Asian spider genus Belisana Thorell 1898 is revised. Previously,
the genus contained only two species. Nine species are transferred from Spermophora, and …

Spiders were sampled using insecticide knockdown in an African montane forest in the
Uzungwa Mountains of Tanzania. The results are used to discuss the faunal composition at …

El importante avance de la degradación de bosques en la Provincia Biogeográfica del
Chaco, Argentina, conlleva una pérdida importante de su poco conocida biodiversidad. Se …