# arachnologically
## English
### Etymology

From arachnological +‎ -ly.

### Adverb

arachnologically (not comparable)
* In terms of arachnology.
** 1903, S. C. Cronwright Schreiner, “Some Arachnids at Hanover, Cape Colony”, in The Popular Science Monthly, New York, N.Y.: The Science Press, page 145:The district of Hanover, he said, and indeed, practically, the whole high Karoo plateau, was unexplored arachnologically;
** 1922 July 1, The Naturalist, page 208:Arachnologically Filey is almost terra incognita.
** 1923, R. W. E. Tucker, “The Drassidae of South Africa (Arachnida)”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume XIX, page 251:The following Monograph gives an account of the Drassid spiders of South Africa. The term South Africa is meant to apply to the region south of the 15° latitude and not to political South Africa. Even so, the boundary is an artificial one arachnologically, for, as far as can be seen from the distribution of the species at present known, certain Cape Province species occur in South-West Africa, and others spread northwards to the East African equatorial region, and certain Abyssinian species spread south to the same region.
** 1954, Acta Zoologica Fennica, pages 33 and 42:It would be natural to compare at first the spider faunas of Newfoundland and Labrador, but unfortunately this part of Canada is very little known arachnologically. […] The areas compared are, of course, of different size and studied arachnologically in different degrees.
** 1955, The British Journal of Photography, page 383:[…] arachnologically […] deals with Spiders.
** 1957, Takeo Yaginuma, “A Historical Review of Studies on Japanese Spiders”, in Acta Arachnologica, page 47:Mention must also be made of those investigations into each regional spider fauna conducted not by individuals as in the past but by museums of natural history, research institutes for natural resources, universities and colleges on a large scale and in areas hitherto unexplored arachnologically.
** 1975, K. Thaler, “The genus Opistoxys Simon – a new synonym in Linyphiid spiders”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 142:Nevertheless, O. acuta has remained species inquirenda, though it was proposed with a detailed description in a famous work in common use, its type locality being situated in an arachnologically well known part of Europe.
** 1980, Paolo Marcello Brignoli, “A new Harpactea from Iran (Araneae, Dysderidae)”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 95:In the whole Palearctic region there are few countries arachnologically less explored than Iran;
** 2001, Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold, Forest Spiders of South East Asia, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 492:Sphingius vivax and punctatus are widely distributed, the other species appear to be local, but may have their range extended into neighbouring regions, which for the time being are poorly known arachnologically.
** 2004, Fauna of Arabia, page 350:Arachnologically, the Arabian Peninsula is poorly known, and it is only recently that there has been an effort to collect this fauna.
** 2006, American Entomologist, volume 52, Entomological Society of America, page 238:(It may be too much to hope that there will arise a new positive role model on the order of what Charlotte’s Web provided to earlier generations. Perhaps we will have to settle for Spiderman, a fairly positive—if arachnologically correct—spider-based role model.)
** 2006, Jerry T. Bonnell, Robert J. Nemiroff, Astronomy: 365 Days, New York, N.Y.: Abrams, page 7:NGC 6302 lies about 4,000 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation Scorpius.
** 2011, Nancy Sanderson, Horse of the Four Winds, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:“[…] Arachnologically speaking, cobwebs are irregular strands of spider silk, and coppe is the old English word for spider. Coppe web became cobweb.” Kate looked at her cousin in disgust. “Arachnologically speaking, I have arachnophobia. […]”
** 2018, Petar Beron, Zoogeography of Arachnida (Monographiae Biologicae 94), Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 727:Arachnologically Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Mascarene are so different from the African continent that they deserve the rank of region pairing with Africa.