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Our laboratory studies the diversity and taxonomy of Araneomorphae spiders from Mexico. We have 8,986 images for approximately 700 species collected in several standarized inventories. The objective of this website is to provide the best online documentation for these spiders. To make spider inventories websites similar to these please use this program PYOINV 1.0 and follow the instructions published in (Garcilazo-Cruz & Álvarez-Padilla 2022, Álvarez-Padilla et al. 2020) and in the Spider Inventories secction.
The following books provide a good introduction to the biology and diversity of Araneae:
Spiders of the World: A Natural History (Platnick & Hormiga et al. 2020).
Spiders of North America an identification Manual 1st or 2nd edition (Ubick et al. 2005, 2017).
Biology of Spiders 3ed (Foelix 2011).
We hope that you find these data useful and thanks for your visit.
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- Álvarez-Padilla F. 2012. Laboratorio de Aracnología. Facultad de Ciencias UNAM, online at http://www.unamfcaracnolab.com {date of access}.