These web pages are as accurate as we can make them when published and are often revised as new information comes to hand. Any errors on these pages are the responsibility of SOWN, not any of the many experts who have helped us.
The first point of reference for invertebrate biology in Queensland is the Queensland Museum. The museum has an excellent Inquiry Centre for questions relating to Queensland fauna.
We are very grateful for the help that the Queensland Museum has given us, credited on the various pages where QM experts have helped with identifications, descriptions and advice.
Notable among other sources of information are the sites of invertebrate enthusiasts including those of Dr Ron Atkinson, Peter Chew, Ed Nieuwenhuys and Nick Monaghan. Many books and papers have also been consulted. Links to these sources are listed below.
- A Guide to Australian Spiders by Densey Clyne
- A Checklist of Australian Spiders - Compiled by R. J. Raven (Queensland Museum). Based on N. I. Platnick's 'The World Spider Catalog, V5.0
- Australian spiders (Araneae) : collection, preservation and identification / Valerie Todd Davies
- Australian Spiders in Colour by Ramon Mascord - New and used through ABE Books ISBN: 0589070657 / 0-589-07065-7
- BOIC Web
- Brisbane Spiders - Thanks to Peter Chew for help with identification
- David Hirst, South Australia Museum - Terrestrial Invertebrates (Arachnology) Collection Manager
- Davies T. V., Zabka M. 1989. - Illustrated keys to the genera of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 27: 189-266
- Dr Barbara Baehr - Profile on the Australasian Arachnological Society web site
- Dr Robert Raven - Senior Curator (Arachnida) Queensland Museum
- Dr Volker W. Framenau - Research Fellow - Short-Range Endemic Fauna, Department of Terrestrial Zoology, Western Australian Museum
- http://salticidae.org/salticid/main.htm - Salticidae (Araneae) of the World compiled by Jerzy Proszynski
- Marek Zabka
- Memoirs of the Queensland Museum Back Issues
- Queensland Museum Inquiry Centre
- Salticidae: Diagnostic Drawings Library by Jerzy Proszynski - Genus Simaetha Thorell, 1881
- Spiders of Australia : a Field Guide by Ramon Mascord - ABE BOOKS (ISBN: 0589502646 / 0-589-50264-6)
- Spiders of Australia: An Introduction to their Classification, Biology and Distribution: Trevor J. Hawkeswood - New and used through ABE Books
- Spiders of Bendigo and Victoria's Box-Ironbark Country: Jennifer M. Shield. 2001. - The Secretary, Bendigo Field Nauralists Club Inc. PO Box 396, Bendigo 3552 Tel: 5432 2380
- Spiders of New Zealand and their Worldwide Kin By Ray and Lyn Forster - ISBN 1 877372 13 7, hardback 290 x 217 mm, 312 pages.
Over 200 photographs in colour and 84 in black and white. - Spiders: The Ultimate Predators by Stephen Dalton - ISBN: 1554073464
- The Find-a-spider Guide by Dr Ron Atkinson - University of Southern Queensland
A guide to spiders in South-east Queensland - The Wolf Spiders of Australia - (Araneae, Lycosidae) Checklist, Taxonomy and Identification by Volker W. Framenau
- The World Spider Catalog, V9.0 - by N. I. Platnick © 2000 - 2008 AMNH
- Dr Helen Smith, Australian Museum
- Davies & Zabka 1989 - Key to Australian Salticids