The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland

Download or read book The Spiders of Great Britain and Ireland written by Michael J. Roberts and published by Brill Academic Pub. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of a two-part compact edition, in which the two text volumes of the 1987 three-volume work have been combined. The preliminary chapters, providing a general introduction to arachnology, include morphology and behaviour, classification and nomenclature, and a key to the families. These are followed by short descriptions of all the British species in the condensed text, written principally to help their identification, although information on habitat and distribution is also included. Especially significant are the many comparative line drawings of critical features, principally genitalia but also carapaces and other structures, by which the species may be determined.