INTERESTING MEETINGS: (arachnological meetings are highlighted):

 

 

 
2009

Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society (AAS), June 25-July 1, 2009, Arkansas Tech, Russellville, Arkansas, USA  

25th EUROPEAN CONGRESS OF ARACHNOLOGY, 16-21 August 2009, Alexandroupolis, GREECE, http://www.nhmc.uoc.gr/25eca.

Contact e-mail address: 25ecagr@nhmc.uoc.gr

 

18th International Congress of Arachnology, Siełdce, Poland, July 11-17, 2010

PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION - Website: http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/congress

Contact e-mail address:  Marek Żabka [marekzabka@ap.siedlce.pl]

Future AAS Meetings:

2010 -- Greenville, North Carolina (tentative)

2011 -- Portland, Oregon, USA -- venue TBA

2012 -- University of Wisconsin at Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA

 

 
PAST MEETINGS & THEIR ARCHIVES

32th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society (AAS), 25-30 June 2008, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, California, USA, TBA

The First International Congress on Invertebrate Morphology,  17-21 August 2008, Kopenhagen, Denmark: http://www.icim-1.dk

The 19th International Symposium of Subterranean Biology: 21-26 September 2008, Fremantle, Western Australia http://www.issb2008.org.au

ARCHIVED ABSTRACTS OF PAST AAS meetings, 1999-2008:  http://www.americanarachnology.org/MeetingAbstracts/MeetingAbstractList.html

ARCHIVES OF PAST ECA congresses/colloquia:

24th: Bern 2008: http://www.esa2008.unibe.ch/
23th: Barcelona 2006:
http://www.ub.edu/23eca/
22th: Blagoevgrad 2005:
http://www.zoology.bas.bg/22eca/index.html
21th: St. Petersburg 2003: http://www.european-arachnology.org/collo/collo21.shtml
19th: Aarhus 2000: http://support.bio.au.dk/spider/
 

 

Important Links:

 

 

The Scorpion Files by Jan Ove Rein (Trondheim, Norway) (contain the complete list of scorpion taxa)

The Scorpion Fauna by Eric Ythier (many useful things and pictures + Bibliography of Scorpions by Gerard Dupré)

ARACHNODATA by Matt E. Braunwalder (Zurich, Switzerland)  

Australian Biodiversity Database (data on Australian scorpions by Erich Volschenk & Mark Harvey)

Kari's Scorpion Pages by Kari McWest (Texas, USA)

Brent E. Hendrixson's Arachnids

Singapore Scorpion Page by Chua Kian Wee

Yahoo Scorpionfans [former Scorpion-enthusiasts] Online Forum

Scorpions in Turkey by A. & A. Karatas

Scorpionscience.net by Dietmar Huber (Austria)

Scorpions from the Chihuahuan Desert Region of Mexico and the United States by Chad Lee (Texas, USA)

Scorpions of southern Africa by Jonathan Leeming

GenBank Database (type in a Latin name and find update on any species' genes and proteins)

Scorpion Toxin Database (Singapore) (search for known toxins)

AMNH Scorpion Systematics Research Group

More Scorpion Links

 

Personalia:

 

Scorpiologists' Gallery  - PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS !!!

 

Scorpiologists' Personal Web Pages:  Luis Acosta, Tim Benton, Richard Bradley, Matt Braunwalder, Philip Brownell, Jason Dunlop, Roger Farley, Victor Fet, Gerta Fleissner, Gunther Fleissner, Eduardo Florez, Dan Formanowicz, Doug Gaffin, Benjamin Gantenbein, Alexander Gromov, Neil Hadley, Brent Hendrixson, Richard Henson, Dietmar Huber, Frantisek Kovarik, Chad Lee, Camilo Mattoni, Kari McWest, Mark Newton, José Ochoa, Alfredo Peretti, Pascal Riewe, Warren Savary, Paul Selden, W. David Sissom, Scott Stockwell, Sara Tallarovic, Carlos Toscano-Gadea, Dieter Walossek, Tsunemi Yamashita, Eric Ythier

Scorpion Toxin Researchers: Michael Gurevitz, Bruce Hammock, Rama Krischna, Marcel Pelhate, Lourival Possani, Carlos Sevcik

 

Scorpiologists' Memorial Gallery

Books:

Fauna Helvetica 13. Scorpiones (Arachnida). By Matt E. Braunwalder (2005). Centre suisse de cartographie de la Faune/Schweizerische Entomologische Gesellschaft, 240 pp (in German and Italian !) [systematics chapter by V. Fet & M. E. Braunwalder] Order form

Scorpions of Brazil by Wilson R. Lourenço (2002), Les Éditions de l'If , 308 pp. Price 45 Euros plus shipping cost; Download Flier

Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis  (V. Fet & P.A. Selden, eds) (2001)

Scorpion Biology and Research (P.H. Brownell & G.A. Polis, eds.) (2001); table of contents

Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998) by V. Fet, W.D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M.E. Braunwalder (2000)

The Biology of Scorpions (G.A. Polis, ed.) (1990)

Scorpion Man by L. Pringle & G.A. Polis (1994) -- the life of Gary A. Polis

Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and Housing by Manny Rubio (2000)

The Most Important Books on Scorpions

More Books on Scorpions

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Journals (arachnological journals are highlighted):

Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society; Journal of Arachnology; American Arachnology; Revista Iberica de Aracnologia; Euscorpius; The American Naturalist; Cladistics; Discover; Evolution; Israel Journal of Zoology; Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins (Brazil);  Nature; Nature Conservancy; Organisms, Diversity & Evolution; Revue Suisse de Zoologie; Science; Scientific American; Systematic Biology; Toxicon

Societies (arachnological societies are highlighted):

International Society of Arachnology (ISA, formerly CIDA); American Arachnological Society (AAS); British Arachnological Society (BAS); Arachnologische Gesellschaft (AraGes); Société Européenne d'Arachnologie (S. E. A.); Le Groupe d'Etude des Arachnides (G.E.A.); Arachnological Society of Japan; American Society of Naturalists; WWW Directory of Entomological Societies; International Society on Toxinology; Society of Systematic Biologists; Society for the Study of Evolution; Society for Integrated and Comparative Biology

 

 

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