Copyright & Acknowledgements
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These authors kindly allowed us to reproduce their figures and gave useful comments:
Kjetil Aakra, Ingi Agnarsson, Martin Askins, José A. Barrientos, Elisabeth Bauchhenss, Steffi Baum, Heiko Bellmann, Rose de Blauwe, Dieter Boockhagen, Angelo Bolzern, Robert Bosmans, Jan Bosselaers, Wilfried Breuss, Jan Buchar, Heinrich Bürgis, Pedro Cardoso, Jonathan Coddington, Luis Crespo, Sergei N. Danilov, Arthur Decae, Christa Deeleman-Reinhold, Christo Deltshev, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Rainer Dröschmeister, Ludêk J. Dobroruka †, Viktor Efimik, Sergei Esyunin, Olivier-D. Finch, Francesca di Franco, Holger Frick, Fulvio Gasparo, Valery Gnelitsa, Charles E. Griswold, Ole Gudik-Sørensen, Harald Hansen, Erling Hauge, Peter J. van Helsdingen, Martin Hepner, Paul Hillyard, Heikki Hippa, Peter Horak, Marco Isaia, Peter Jäger, Elke Jantscher, Lars J. Jonsson, Rudy Jocqué, Barbara Knoflach-Thaler, Peter Kolshorn, Christian Komposch, Seppo Koponen, Rok Kostanjsek, Mykola Kovblyuk, Otto Kraus, Torbjörn Kronestedt, Janusz Kupryjanowicz, Jean-Claude Ledoux, Pekka T. Lehtinen, Herbert W. Levi, Gershom Levy †, Dmitri V. Logunov, Yuri M. Marusik, Richard Maurer, Peter Merrett, Heiko Metzner, Kirill Mikhailov, Manfred Moritz, Christoph Muster, Parwis Nabavi, Aart P. Noordam, Martin Obrist, Hirotsugo Ono, Vladimir Ovtsharenko, Carlo Pesarini, Norman Platnick, Stano Pekar, Thomas R. Prentice, Jerzy Proszynski, Ulrich M. Ratschker, Franz Renner, Carles Ribera, Michael J. Roberts, Barbara Roth, Vlastimil Ruzicka, Michael Saaristo †, Peter Sacher, Ferenc Samu, Nikolaj Scharff, Hans-Bert Schikora, Peter Schwendinger, Paul Selden, Hendrik Segers, Li Shuqiang, Rowley Snazell, Joe Soencksen, Daxiang Song †, Csaba Szinetár, Eva Szita, Andrei V. Tanasevitch, Konrad Thaler †, Gabriele Töpfer-Hofmann, Paolo Tongiorgi, Alessio Trotta, Hans Turner, Carmen Urones, Jakob Walter, Xinping Wang, Ingmar Weiss, Gerhard Wegener, Andreas Wolf, Jörg Wunderlich, Gie Wyckmans, Herman Vanuytven, Hajime Yoshida, Marek Zabka.
These institutions kindly allowed us to reproduce figures published in their books, journals or series:
Academia nakladatelstvi, Prague (Klic Zvireny, Czech Republic)
Academia Romana / Editura Academiei Romane (Fauna Romaniei)
American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (American Museum Novitates, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History)
Arachnologische Gesellschaft (Arachnologische Mitteilungen)
Arthropoda Selecta
British Arachnological Society (Bulletin, Newsletter)
Entomologiska Föreningen i Stockholm (Svensk spindelfauna)
Gad Publishers, Kopenhagen, Danmark (Danmarks Fauna)
Harley Books, Colchester UK (bw drawings from Michael J. Roberts)
HarperCollins Publishers, Hammersmith, UK (bw drawings from Michael J. Roberts)
Hungarian Natural History Museum / Hungarian Academy of Science (Fauna Hungariae)
Icelandic Institute of Natural History
Journal of Arachnology
Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart (bw drawings from Heiko Bellmann in Kosmos-Atlas-Spinnentiere Europas)
Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (Veröffentlichungen)
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Hamburg (Abhandlungen)
Naturwissenschaftlicher-Medizinischer Verein in Innsbruck (Berichte)
Parey Buchverlag (Blackwell Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH) (drawings from Spinnen Mitteleuropas)
Revue suisse de Zoologie
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
Springer Verlag, Heidelberg (drawings from Stresemann Exkursionsfauna)
The Ray Society, London, UK (drawings from Locket, Millidge & Merrett British spiders)
Verlag Gustav Fischer, Jena (drawings from Hermann Wiehle)
Zootaxa
These persons did the programming and fed our database:
Reto Bänninger, Pierre Bertier, Matthias Burger, Arturo Bolaños, Daniel Gloor, Manuel Kobelt, Tobias von Mandach, Julian Matter, Michael Pfister, Alex Strauss.
Special thanks are due to Anna Stäubli for her excellent work on the DELTA based key to linyphiid spiders. Also a very special thank to Stefan Otto who shared his distribution information for caucasian spiders with araneae.
These institutions supported our project with financial contributions:
Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel
Kantonale Lotterie SEVA Bern
Migros Kulturprozent
Naturhistorischen Museum Basel
Naturhistorischen Museum Bern
Arachnologische Gesellschaft
British Arachnological Society
Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
Universität Bern
