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What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae)

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  What’s a Spider? Designation of the Neotype for the First Animal Species Ever Described, Araneus angulatus Clerck 1757 (Araneae: Araneidae) Abstract We designate a neotype for the Eurasian spider species Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757, thereby fixing the objective application of the species name, the genus name Araneus Clerck 1757, the family name Araneidae Clerck 1757, and the superfamily name Araneoidea Clerck 1757. By etymology and arachnological tradition, it also unofficially fixes the application of the ordinal name Araneae Clerck 1757 and thus answers the uncontroversial question, “What’s a spider?” A. angulatus also happens to be historically the first animal species ever described because Clerck (1757) has priority over Linnaeus (1758). Neotype designation is justified for three reasons: the syntypes of A. angulatus are lost; “ A. angulatus ” contains significant COI sequence divergence, potentially representing intraspecific variation, misidentifications, or as many...

A review of Idiommata Ausserer, 1871 (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae), with the description of a related new genus and new species of giant Australian brush-footed spiders

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Contributions to the knowledge of Mauritian araneofauna: new records (Araneae: Araneomorphae) and description of a remarkable new species of intertidal trapdoor spider (Araneae: Barychelidae)

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Accessing the challenges of descriptive morphology in Barychelidae and Theraphosidae through a morphometric approach (Araneae, Mygalomorphae)

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On Some Rare Mygalomorph from Ecuador, with the Description of 16 New Species in Five Families (Mygalomorphae: Actinopodidae, Barychelidae, Halonoproctidae, Idiopidae, and Theraphosidae)

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Illustrated Catalog of African brush-footed trapdoor spiders: type specimens from the Royal Museum for Central Africa (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Barychelidae)

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A large brush-footed trapdoor spider (Mygalomorphae: Barychelidae) from the Miocene of Australia

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