latest news

 25.06.2010 - All taxonomic changes on the board ...
... to have a quick access to all recent taxonomic changes I included additionally to the pulldown for new described species a second one for further changes like description of until now unknown male/female, nov. comb. etc.




 20.06.2010 - new combination drawings - publications
it was necessary to combine drawings directly with the papers...see a nice tooltip with the cover page...




 01.06.2010 - Described nov. spec. per year...
to have a better overview about latest described species I included an interactive pulldown for 2010 in the startpage. A complete overview incl. pulldown menues for a quick select is placed in the part "references".

sensitive bar chart and pulldown menues for a quick access to the taxa
sensitive bar chart and pulldown menues for a quick access to the taxa

 16.05.2010 - Instituto Butantan collection lost
A fire destroyed app. 80,000 snakes and 500,000 spiders and scorpions. How sad...

Antonio Brescovit, Alexandre Bonaldo, me (and Hubert Höfer, not on the picture) 1996 at Butantan
Antonio Brescovit, Alexandre Bonaldo, me (and Hubert Höfer, not on the picture) 1996 at Butantan




me in laboratory Butantan, studying & drawing jumping spiders of the collection
me in laboratory Butantan, studying & drawing jumping spiders of the collection

 09.05.2010 - New videos by Dick Walton ...
in "videos" you´ll find some new and rearranged videos taken by Dick Walton! Enjoy!




 11.04.2010 - Website redesign...
... I decided to make a redesign for the site ... please enjoy!




 05.04.2010 - Templatemodifications....
to present a better usability for the increasing informations I included a new subnavigation on species-level, enlarged the font-size and google maps, modified the headlines...




 12.03.2010 - FLICKR integration ...
on species level you find as 3rd party content integrated FLICKR fotos - have a look e.g. at Philaeus chrysops...




 09.03.2010 - BHL-integration
thanks to the API I was able to include the BHL-site as an valuable resource of publications into the projekt. You see search results for every taxon!




 16.02.2010 - Wayne Maddisons drawings & photos ...
... are content of the page in the future. He gave me also his permission to include them.

Prof. Wayne Maddison
Prof. Wayne Maddison

 06.02.2010 - New Fotos of unidentified species...
during the years many page visitors sent me photos of unidentified salticidae. To include them into the project I listed them in the part "taxonomy" genus "--unidentified". There you find a list of visitors linked with the photos they sent.

As an example the photos of Mr. Drechsel, Paraguay
As an example the photos of Mr. Drechsel, Paraguay

 25.01.2010 - Tamas Szüts...
... gave me his permission to include all his drawigs, images... Another progress for the project in 2010! Good luck in the States from me to him and his family!

Tamas "in the field"
Tamas "in the field"

 10.01.2010 - Dimitri Logunov´s drawings and collection datas ...
thanks to Dmitri, who gave me his permission to include all his drawings and fotos into the site - a valuable enrichment for the project! Recently he started to include his collection datas with his own LogIn - e.g. Yllenus albocinctus...

Dr. Dmitri Logunov
Dr. Dmitri Logunov

 18.06.2009 - Dynamic distribution-maps on genus-level!
when choosing a genus you´ll find now a dynamic map which shows you the general distribution of the genus worldwide, separated by different colours corresponding to the number of occuring species. Additionally a map showing the number of species for every country is shown in the startpage of "distribution".

Species-density worldwide!
Species-density worldwide!

Distribution of the genus Myrmarachne!
Distribution of the genus Myrmarachne!

 12.06.2009 - Field trip to Italy
04.-10.06.2009 we stayed at the Lago di Idro in northern Italy.
We found 19 different species at 6 different localities. Best collection site was near Trento: We collected 11 different species at an area of about 20 m² during 1 hour!

Aelurillus-v-insignitus
Chalcoscirtus infimus
Euophrys frontalis
Evarcha falcata
Evarcha jucunda
Heliophanus auratus
Heliophanus cupreus
Heliophanus kochii
Heliophanus tribulosus
Leporchestes peresi
Macaroeris nidicolens
Myrmarachne formicaria
Pseudeuophrys erratica
Phlegra fasciata
Salticus scenicus
Salticus zebraneus
Saitis barbipes
Sitticus rupicola
Sitticus zimmermanni





 01.06.2009 - Key for European genera
Please find in part "key" a preliminary key to the genera of southern Europe.
Hover over the orange links and see drawings to the specific features. Try and send me your comment - I think it´s a good way to make interactive scalable keys.




 22.05.2009 - 189 new photos taken by Aloysius Staudt
Thanks to Aloysius, who gave me the opportunity to include 189 new photos from Central European species into the website!

Marpissa radiata
Marpissa radiata

 15.05.2009 - SARA - meeting 08.-10.05.2009 Stuttgart
It was a good opportunity to meet colleagues, hear interesting lectures and discuss problems concerning european spiders!




 14.05.2009 - New google maps terrain
I included a new map type - terrain - to optimize the view to the collection sites. Additionally the IE-Problem is solved!




 10.04.2009 - google maps distribution
I included google maps in the section "distribution". Please select a country, you´ll find a google map with included material!