From British Arachnological Society

Introduction

This list is based on 'A revised check list of British Spiders' by Peter Merrett and John A. Murphy (2000) Bull. Br. arachnol. Soc. 11 (9), pp 345-358. This is a completely revised list, with the most noticable change being the order of the families to follow that used by Platnick (1998) in 'Advances in Spider Taxonomy 1992-1995' New York Entomological Society and American Museum of Natural History.

In the following list previous names used in the checklists of Merrett & Millidge (1992); the Biological Records Centre recording card RA65 (1987) and the original BRC Recording card (1964) are included where possible.

English or common names used in the list are based on those used in the Biological Recording Database 'Recorder' ver. 3, promoted by the National Biodiversity Network.

Deletions

Pardosa arenicola, Nigma flavescens, Philodromus buxi and Philodromus rufus have been removed since the last published list (1992).

Phylum: Chelicerata

Class: Arachnida

Order: Araneae

Additional species not yet accepted on to the British list

Spiders of the Channel Islands

The following additional species have been confirmed as having been recorded from the Channel Islands, but not from the British mainland.

A number of additional species have also been recorded from the Channel Islands, but are considered uncertain to varying extents. Please refer to the original article in Bull. Br.arachnol. Soc.