Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/Articles
Wikipedia articles on Spiders
[edit]At the moment there are more than a thousand pages, 700 of which are stubs. To get a picture, it's easiest to start with one of the following pages:
- Spiders - should be the main entry page for most people
- Araneae families - main entry page of taxonomic tree.
New Wikipedia articles related to Spiders
[edit]Adopt an article
[edit]Similar to the Collaboration of the week, but on a smaller scale, you might want to "adopt" an article. This would involve doing the research, writing, and picture-taking (if possible) for either a non-existent article or a stub. Of course, everyone else can still edit an adopted article, and you can work on other things too, but the idea is to find a focus for a while, to try and build up the number of quality articles the Project has produced.
- Example articles: Blind spiders, Arachnology
Requested Articles
[edit]Spider article subpages
[edit]There should be several subpages, eg.:
- Spider anatomy
- Spider evolution
- Spider taxonomy
- Spider bites
- Spiders in culture
- Spiders as food (should be merged with Fried spider)
A list of themes where there's mostly information on the internet, but nobody started an article yet:
- Cicurina [1]
- Neoleptoneta microps [2]
- Adelocosa anops PDF [3] [4] [5]
- Lygromma anops PDF PDF
- Euagrus anops PDF
- Micythus anopsis (no links found)
- Spermophorides anophthalma (no links found)
Spider anatomy
[edit]List of some items that are not explained yet. These should either be treated in an article of their own, or get a section in Spider anatomy, or, if it has a different meaning in other parts of zoology (for example entomology), get a special section there.
- Apophysis
- Bulbus
- Calamistrum
- Carapax
- Colulus
- Embolus
- Gnathosoma
- Hysterosoma
- Opisthosoma
- Scutum
- Spermatophore
- Spinneret (expand)
- Subchela
- An entry from Caponiidae appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know? column on 29 July, 2006.
- An entry from Paratropis tuxtlensis appeared on the Main Page in the Did you know? column on 22 July, 2014.
- The article Spider was proposed for Featured article. It should probably split into sub-pages and checked for accuracy first.
See also:
- Wikipedia:Featured_pictures/Animals/Arachnids
- commons:Commons:Featured_pictures/Animals/Arthropods#Araneae
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Xysticus cristatus with prey, by Charlesjsharp
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Pisaura mirabilis, female, by Charlesjsharp
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Peucetia madagascariensis, by Charlesjsharp
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Misumena vatia with butterfly prey, by Charlesjsharp
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Hippasa holmerae, by Basile Morin
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Jumping spider with prey, by Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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Clynotis severus, by JJ Harrison
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Close up of the eyes of Clynotis severus, by JJ Harrison
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Female wolf spider carrying her young, by Muhammad Mahdi Karim
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Scanning electromicrograph of a Lorryia formosa, by Eric Erbe and Chris Pooley.
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Thomisus onustus capturing a bee, by Alvesgaspar
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Green tent spider at Cyrtophora, by Fir0002
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Australian garden orb weaver spider with captured prey , by Fir0002
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Mexican redknee tarantula at List of medically significant spider bites, by Fir0002