arachnologically
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Etymology: From arachnological + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: The district of Hanover, he said, and indeed, practically, the whole high Karoo plateau, was unexplored arachnologically;
ref: 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:
text: Arachnologically Filey is almost terra incognita.
ref: 1922 July 1, The Naturalist, page 208:
text: 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.
ref: 1923, R. W. E. Tucker, “The Drassidae of South Africa (Arachnida)”, in Annals of the South African Museum, volume XIX, page 251:
text: 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.
ref: 1954, Acta Zoologica Fennica, pages 33 and 42:
text: […]arachnologically[…]deals with Spiders.
ref: 1955, The British Journal of Photography, page 383:
text: 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.
ref: 1957, Takeo Yaginuma, “A Historical Review of Studies on Japanese Spiders”, in Acta Arachnologica, page 47:
text: 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.
ref: 1975, K. Thaler, “The genus Opistoxys Simon – a new synonym in Linyphiid spiders”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 142:
text: In the whole Palearctic region there are few countries arachnologically less explored than Iran;
ref: 1980, Paolo Marcello Brignoli, “A new Harpactea from Iran (Araneae, Dysderidae)”, in Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, page 95:
text: 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.
ref: 2001, Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold, Forest Spiders of South East Asia, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 492:
text: Arachnologically, the Arabian Peninsula is poorly known, and it is only recently that there has been an effort to collect this fauna.
ref: 2004, Fauna of Arabia, page 350:
text: (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,^([sic]) a fairly positive—if arachnologically correct—spider-based role model.)
ref: 2006, American Entomologist, volume 52, Entomological Society of America, page 238:
text: NGC 6302 lies about 4,000 light-years away in the arachnologically correct constellation Scorpius.
ref: 2006, Jerry T. Bonnell, Robert J. Nemiroff, Astronomy: 365 Days, New York, N.Y.: Abrams, page 7:
text: “[…]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.[…]”
ref: 2011, Nancy Sanderson, Horse of the Four Winds, AuthorHouse, →ISBN:
text: Arachnologically Madagascar, the Seychelles, and the Mascarene are so different from the African continent that they deserve the rank of region pairing with Africa.
ref: 2018, Petar Beron, Zoogeography of Arachnida (Monographiae Biologicae 94), Springer International Publishing AG, →ISBN, page 727:
glosses: In terms of arachnology.