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This beautifully illustrated and updated guide to the spider families and genera north of Mexico is an indispensable reference for both amateur naturalists and professional arachnologists. It provides keys to over 600 genera in 71 different families.
About the author
Darrell Ubick is a Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Entomology at the California Academy of Sciences. He is a well-known spider taxonomist who has published on a variety of taxa. His recent research focus has been on spiders in the family Oonopidae.
Pierre Paquin is a well-known spider taxonomist with an expertise on cave fauna. He and illustrator, Nadine Dupérré, have published numerous articles and identification manuals focused on the spider fauna of Canada.
Paula Cushing is Curator of Invertebrate Zoology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science. Her research focus is on the systematics and taxonomy of camel spiders in the arachnid order Solifugae. She has also published on spider-ant symbioses.
Nadine Dupérré is the Collections Manager for Arachnology at the Centrum für Naturkunde, Universität Hamburg - Zoological Museum in Hamburg, Germany. She is a well-known scientific illustrator who has been involved in numerous taxonomic revisions of spiders
