Infraorder Araneomorphae - True Spiders

Volume 11 of the Occasional Papers of the Florida State Collection of Arthropods

Online pre-publication announcement, which includes a downloadable order form.

Herschel Raney has the following to say about it:

Just received my copy in the mail today of the 156 page Revision of the
Jumping Spiders of the genus Phidippus from the Florida Department of
Agriculture Feb 2004. This thing is superb. I cannot recommend it enough to
anyone interested in identifying jumpers of this genus. I am currently

There is information in this revision that is applicable to the North American species.

Genera and species should be cross-referenced at the World Spider Catalog for current nomenclature.

After being discontinued for 10 years, monographs are again being published in the excellent Insect and Arachnids of Canada series. This is the first of, hopefully, more to come. I'm sorry it took me 2 years to find out about this exciting development.

Can be ordered directly from the web starting at:
http://pubs.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/cgi-bin/rp/rp2_list_e?mlist3
or start at:
www.monographs.nrc.ca and see what else you can get.

As for the book itself it covers spiders of the Uloboridae, Tetragnathidae, Araneidae, and Theridiosomatidae and seems to be good for Canada and the northern USA. Their dot maps cover all of Canada and the continental USA and despite the title, just flipping through I don't see many that actually make it to Alaska. Indeed many of the species covered don't even come into Canada. Perhaps they are expected. I have not read the introduction extensively yet.