A list of Japanese spiders (revised in 1977)

Systematics and Evolution of Spiders (Araneae)

“…The faunas of Western Europe (especially England) and Japan are most completely known (136,137,166). The Nearctic fauna is perhaps 80% described (33), New Zealand perhaps 60-70% (36,51,52,54,55,60,61), and Australia perhaps 20% (131).…”

“…Bonnet (12) in France and Roewer (138) (136,137): the Berlin area of Germany about 500 (165). Larger areas for which estimates exist are Japan with about 1100 (166), North America with about 4000 (33), and Australia with about 9000 (131). No comparable estimates exist for tropical regions, but a few hectares of tropical wet forest have numbers comparable to those cited above for immensely larger temperate areas (32).…”

Description of Eleven New Species of the Genus Coelotes (Araneae: Amaurobiidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan

“…Until 1982, no coelotine spiders were reported from the Ryukyu Islands (Bosenberg & Strand 1906;Nishikawa 1974;Paik 1978;Yaginuma 1977Yaginuma , 1986. Since then, only five species of the genus Coelotes were reported from the Ryukyu Islands (Shimojana 1982(Shimojana , 1989Yaginuma et al 1990, Wang & Ono 1998.…”

A Revision of the Japanese Spiders of the Genus Araniella (Araneae: Araneidae).

“…The Japanese spider of the Genus Araniella CHAMBERLIN et IvlE, 1942 has been wrongly identified with Araneus westringi (THORELL, 1856) [= Araniella displ icata (HENTZ, 1847) ; YAGINUMA, 1938], Araneus displicatus (HENTZ, 1847) [YAGINUMA, 1960;SHINKAI & TAKANO, 1984], or Araneus cucurbitinus CLERCK, 1757 [YAGINUMA, 1960]. MATSUDA (1985) pointed out that the feature of the male palp of the species did not agree with the illustrations of those of Araneus displicatus and A. cucurbitinus made by LOCKET and MILLIDGE (1953).…”

“…Two species are known from Japan. Araneus westringi : YAGINUMA, 1938, p. 8 [nec A. westringi (THORELL, 1856]. Araneus cucurbitinus: YAGINUMA, 1960, p. 55, p1.…”