Spider Biodiversity: A World Catalog

该项目将有助于编制并向科学界提供一份完整的、世界范围的蜘蛛系统目录。 该项目包括两个阶段。 第一阶段包括出版《蜘蛛分类学进展》系列的第三卷;该卷将通过详细描述1940年至1980年出版的先前描述的物种的图解重新描述，并通过提供1992年至1995年出版的新文献的全面覆盖，更新和补充现有的已出版的蜘蛛生物多样性系统目录。 第二阶段涉及通过捕获并合并1940年后的所有信息，从早期出版的目录中获取相关数据来制作一个完整的目录。 完整的书目和分类学档案将在因特网和光盘上提供（以文本和数据库格式提供，用于各种计算机平台，每年更新）。 这些结果将作为所有涉及蜘蛛的生物多样性项目的权威清单，并最终为所有蜘蛛生物学研究以及农业和森林管理领域的科学家提供一个稳定的命名基础。

This project will help to prepare, and make available to the scientific community, a complete, worldwide systematic catalog of spiders. The project includes two phases. The first phase involves the publication of a third volume in the Advances in Spider Taxonomy series; that volume will update and supplement existing, published systematic catalogs of spider biodiversity by detailing the illustrated redescriptions of previously described species that were published form 1940 through 1980, and by providing full coverage of the new literature published form 1992 through 1995. The second phase involves the production of a complete catalog through the capture, and merging with all the post-1940 information, of relevant data from earlier published catalogs. The complete bibliographic and taxonomic files will be made available on Internet and CD-ROM (in both text and database formats, for various computer platforms, with annual updates to follow). The results will serve as authority lists for all biodiversity projects involving spiders, and should eventually promote a stable nomencla torial base for all biological studies of spiders and for use by scientists in agriculture and forest management fields.