Extant and fossil spiders (Araneae)
By: Joerg Wunderlich (ed.) ; editor and author of most papers as well, Joerg Wunderlich
Series: Beiträge zur Araneologie -- 6 (2011); Beiträge zur Araneologie -- 6
Publisher: Pub. House J. Wunderlich
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Hirschberg, Germany
Language: eng; ger
Number of pages: 640
ISBN-13: 9783931473122
Subjects: Spiders; Classification; Fossil Spiders; Evolution; Amber fossils
Other titles: Heutige und fossile Spinnen
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Captions for photographs on cover also in German.
Table of contents: title: On extant and fossil European Mangorini (Araneidae); title: Taxonomy of extant and fossil (Eocene) European Gnaphosidae; title: Spiders of the family Prodidomidae (Araneae) from Europe and Madagascar; title: On European spiders of the family Liocranidae/Miturgidae/Zoridae; title: On extant and fossil (Eocene) Holarctic Clubionidae; title: On extant West-Palaearctic (mainly southern European) spiders (Araneae) of various families, with new descriptions; title: Description of two new spider species of the erigonine genus Scutpelecopsis (Linyphiidae); title: A new tribe and three new genera of of cobweb spiders (Theridiidae) from Malaysia; title: Contribution to the spider (Araneae) fauna of the Canary Islands; title: New extant taxa of the spider family Theridiosomatidae (Araneae from Laos and on some fossil taxa); title: Some subrecent spiders (Araneae) in copal from Madagascar; title: Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Dominican amber; title: Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Eocene European ambers; title: Some fossil spiders (Araneae) in Cretaceous ambers; title: Evidence of wound repair/healing events in spiders; title: Reversals of some structures in the evolution of spiders, with remarks on the plagiognathy as well as the taxa Uraraneida, and Leptonetidae; title: Spiders (Araneae) in the ideology of two creationists; title: Corrections and supplements concerning vol. 5 of the Beitr. Araneol. (2008); title: List of new suprageneric spider taxa which are described by Wunderlich in this volume; title: A new t[r]ibe of cobweb spiders (Theridiinae) from Borneo, Malaysia / C. Deeleman-Reinhold and J. Wunderlich.