Welcome
Our laboratory documents the species diversity of Araneomorphae spiders from Mexico. The objective is to provide the best online documentation of their morphology to help other areas of Biological research. We have approximately 700 species collected in various diversity inventories documented with 8,986 images. Please enter the Spider Inventories menu to access their respective species pages, if interested similar websites can be produced using this program PYOINV 1.0.
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}.