Abstract
ALTHOUGH this book bears the general title of “Arachnida”, 325 pages are devoted to spiders, while important orders like the mites, scorpions and Solifug receive less than 40 pages between them, and the Ricinulei and Palpigradi are dismissed in a few paragraphs. The doubtfully-related Pycnogonida and Tardigrada are omitted, but the Linguatulid are included. There is no mention of Limulus. Thus the book is, in effect, the third ‘biology of spiders’ to be published in Europe since 1928, and in view of the increasing attention which the Arachnida are attracting, it seems unfortunate that the opportunity was not taken to give other orders a fuller treatment.
Les arachnides (scorpions, araignées, etc.): biologie systematique.
By Lucien Berland. (Encyclopédie entomologique, Vol. 16.) Pp. 485. (Paris: Paul Lechevalier et fils, 1932.) 150 francs.
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S., T. Les arachnides (scorpions, araignées, etc): biologie systematique. Nature 132, 298 (1933). https://doi.org/10.1038/132298a0
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