A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus
I updated the bibliography. Now it includes 55 more faunistic articles on spiders of the Caucasus (now 191). If I missed any - please let me know!
As part of a new field trip to Georgia this summer I will probably have the opportunity to visit the arachnological collection of Tbilisi National Museum. If any of you are interested in information on certain types deposited in Tbilisi please let me know, so I can try to find out more when I get there.
There hasn’t been a new update of our database (checklists, …) because we are busy switching to a new data management tool (based on Semantic Web and Web 2.0) to be used in the future. If you wish to see a sneak preview please contact me. We plan to have finished this transformation by mid-September along with the inclusion of more spider records.
kind regards
"... a thorough collecting of Arachnids in Transcaucasia would yield a magnificent prey because, namely in spiders, an astonishing richness in both individuals and species made itself noticeable." L. Koch (1878)