Reading my previous posts about spiders we’ve found, you might wonder why I seem uncertain whether a spider we find is new to science. Why don’t we just get out our trusty Field Guide to the Jumping Spiders of Borneo? Sorry, nothing like that exists. And, even after we get the spiders back to the lab, with our good microscopes, it still won’t be easy to figure out if they are new. In the technical scientific literature there has never been a compilation that describes the known jumping spiders of Borneo. What we have are scattered articles published over the last centuries, each reporting on a few species found. Usually there are so few details published that the only way to confirm an identification is to compare your specimens to those specimens, archived in museums, that were described in the publications.
A Latin description of a jumping spider, Eug ne Simon, 1900
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