Description: discover purse-web spiders and map the locations of their webs
philadelphia (2536) spider (277) atypus (2) snetsinger (1) karschi (1) purse-web (1) spider burrow (1) spiderling (1) tyler arboretum (1) atypidae (1)
The updated map shows > 200 site visits recorded by the project app. New information was added to the webpage about our spider probably being a naturalized introduced species from Asia.
Czech researcher Milan Řezáč and his colleagues have written a paper with Tyler Arboretum volunteer Steve Tessler on Atypus snetsingeri * . The Czech team discovered that our spider's DNA markers are an exact match with the east Asian species Atypus karschi - meaning our 'snetsingeri' is an introduced, naturalized species. Aspects of the spider's natural history and distribution are also discussed. Read the preprint on bioRxiv
The ESA's Entomology Today newsletter has an article about the Map The Spider project, our local purse-web spider and Tyler Arboretum's Spider Watch volunteer project. Read more