Head of Arachnology
Dr. Peter Jäger
Sektionsleiter
- Taxonomie, Systematik, Zoogeographie, Evolution der Riesenkrabbenspinnen (Araneae: Sparassidae)
- Webspinnen in Südostasien
- Funktionsmorphologie von Kopulationsorganen
- Neozoen in Mitteleuropa
2021
Dimitrov, D. & Jäger, P. (2021) Coelotes vignai Brignoli, 1978 (Araneae: Agelenidae) from Turkey: first description of male and annotations on terminology of copulatory organs. Biodiversity Data Journal, 9, e73127, https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.9.e73127
Jäger, P. (2021) Two new enigmatic genera of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae). — In: Jäger, P., Schwendinger, P. & Shear, B. (Eds) A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa, 4984 (1), 335–346. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.24
Jäger, P. & Schönhofer, A. (2021) Eight legs, two wings, one life for scientific research — celebrating the 80th birthday of Prof. Dr Jochen Martens. — In: Jäger, P., Schwendinger, P. & Shear, B. (Eds) A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa, 4984 (1), 7–33. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.4
Jäger, P., Schwendinger, P.J. & Shear, W.A. (2021) Preface. — In: Jäger, P., Schwendinger, P. & Shear, B. (Eds) A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa, 4984 (1), 6. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.3
Jäger, P., Schwendinger, P.J. & Shear, W.A. (Eds) (2021) A Festschrift honouring Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens on occasion of his 80th birthday. Zootaxa, 4984 (1), 1–384. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4984.1.1
Jäger, P., Komposch, C. & Schönhofer, A. (2021) Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens –Wissenschaftler aus Leidenschaft. Ein geschriebenes Ständchen zum 80. Geburtstag. Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 62, i–x.
Jäger, P., Arnedo, M.A., Azevedo, G.H.F., Baehr, B., Bonaldo, A.B., Haddad, C.R., Harms, D., Hormiga, G., Labarque, F.M., Muster, C, Ramirez, M.J. & Santos, A.J. (2021) Twenty years, eight legs, one concept: describing spider biodiversity in Zootaxa (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa, 4979 (19), 131–146. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4979.1.14
Jäger, P. (2021) Enigmatic “love bites” and an indirect mating plug: revision of Thunberga Jäger, 2020 with description of new species (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology, 18 (7), 718–765.
2020
Lin, Y., Jäger, P., Mikhailov, K.G. & Chen, H. (2020) Notes on two Asian species of the spider family Deinopidae (Aranei). Artropoda Selecta, 29 (4), 467–469.
Jäger, P. (2020) The spider genus Olios Walckenaer, 1837 (Araneae: Sparassidae)—Part 1: species groups, diagnoses, identification keys, distribution maps and revision of the argelasius-, coenobitus– and auricomis-groups. Zootaxa, 4866, 1–119
Jäger, P. (2020) Platnickopoda gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Tanzania (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology, 18 (5), 499–506.
Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2020) Forty-seven new species of Sinopoda from Asia with a considerable extension of the distribution range to the South and describtion of a new species group (Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa, 4797 (1), 1–101. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4797.1
Jäger, P. (2020) Thunberga gen. nov., a new genus of huntsman spiders from Madagascar (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Zootaxa, 4790 (2), 245–260. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4790.2.3
Platnick, N.I. (ed.), Hormiga, G., Jäger, P., Jocque, R., Ramirez, M.J. & Raven, R. (2020). Spiders of the World. A Natural History. 256 pp. Princeton University Press, ISBN 978-0-691-18885-0 / Ivy Press, ISBN 978-1-78240-750-8
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2020) How to deal with destroyed type material? The case of Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 59, 22–29.
Lin, Y., Shao, L., Hänggi, A., Caleb, J.T.D., Koh, J.K.H., Jäger, P. & Li, S. (2020) Asianopis gen. nov., a new genus of the spider family Deinopidae from Asia. Zookeys, 911, 67–99.
2019
Jäger, P. (2019) Selenops ef spec. nov. (Araneae: Selenopidae) from Cambodia: first record from an Asian cave. Arachnology, 18 (3), 245–247.
Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2019) An Afrotropic element at the north-western periphery of the Oriental Region: Pseudomicrommata mokranica sp. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie, 126 (2), 249–256.
Zhang, H., Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2019) Establishing a new species group of Pseudopoda Jäger 2000 with the description of two new species (Araneae, Sparassidae). Zookeys, 879, 91–115.
Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Gloor, D., Jäger, P. & Kropf, C. (2019) Tackling taxonomic redundancy in spiders: the infraspecific spider taxa described by Embrik Strand (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 58, 29–51.
Jäger, P. & Dimitrov, D. (2019) Otacilia fansipan spec. nov., the second congener recorded from Vietnam (Arachnida: Araneae: Phrurolithidae). Zootaxa, 4664 (2), 233–240.
Kioko, G.M., Jäger, P., Kioko, E.N., Ji, L.-Q. & Li, S. (2019) On the species of the genus Mistaria Lehtinen, 1967 studied by Roewer (1955) from Africa (Araneae, Agelenidae). African Invertebrates, 60 (1), 109–132.
Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2019) Taxonomic study of Sinopoda spiders from China (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa, 4607 (1), 1–81.
Al-Khazali, A.M. & Jäger, P. (2019) Cebrennus sumer spec. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae), the first record of the genus in Iraq. Arachnology, 18 (1), 37–39.
Jäger, P. (2019) Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4560 (3), 441–462.
Kropf, C., Blick, T., Brescovit, A.D., Chatzaki, M., Dupérré, N., Gloor, D., Haddad, C.R., Harvey, M.S., Jäger, P., Marusik, Y.M., Ono, H., Rheims, C.A. & Nentwig, W. (2019) How not to delimit taxa: A critique on a recently proposed „pragmatic classification“ of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa, 4545 (3), 444–446.
2018
Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2018) Taxonomic review of the Sinopoda okinawana-group (Araneae: Sparassidae) in China. Zootaxa 4388 (3), 328–346. pdf on request
Solórzano Kraemer, M.M., Delclòs, X., Clapham, M.E., Arillo, A., Peris, D., Jäger, P., Stebner, F., Peñalver, E. (2018) Artrhropods in modern resins reveal if amber accurately recorded forest arthropod communities. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.1802138115. pdf on request
Jäger, P., Sierwald, P., Bieler, R. & Decker, P. (2018) Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55, iii–viii. pdf
Klass, K., Blank, S., Dorow, W., Jäger, P., Köhler, G., Morkel, C. & Nuß, M. (2018) ediCALL, oder wie können wir unsere wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen erschließen, digitalisieren und in Wert setzen? Natur Forschung Museum 148 (4–6): 75–79. pdf
Lin, Y., Li, S. & Jäger, P. (2018) Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from Cambodia. Zookeys 777: 43–55. pdf
Jäger, P. (2018) The second true troglobiont Heteropoda species from a limestone cave system in Palawan, Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 17 (8), 427–431. pdf
Jäger, P. (2018) On the genus Systaria (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Southeast Asia: new species from caves and forests. Zootaxa, 4504 (4), 524–544. pdf on request
Al-Khazali, A.M. & Jäger, P. (2018) Cebrennus sumer spec. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae), the first record of the genus in Iraq. Arachnology, 18 (1), 37–39. pdf
2017
Zhang, H, Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2017) One new Pseudopoda species group (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Yunnan Province, China, with description of three new species. — Zootaxa 4318 (2), 271–294. pdf on request
Siyam, M., Dunlop, J.A. & Jäger, P. (2017) Further spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 17 (6), 317–322. pdf
Selden, P. & Jäger, P. (2017) Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Arachnology 17 (6), 323–324. pdf
2016
Jäger, P. (2016) A plea for taxonomic drawings and against pure photo-taxonomy. Indian Journal of Arachnology, 5 (1–2), 61–66. pdf
Kulkarni, S. & Jäger, P. (2016) Third Conference of the Asian Society of Arachnology in Amravati, India. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 136, 3–6. pdf
Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2106) On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa, 4121 (2): 187–193 pdf on request
Jäger, P. & Kulkarni, S. (2016) An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India. Zookeys, 577, 55–62. pdf
Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2016) Four new species of the spider genus Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 from Laos, Thailand and Myanmar and the first description of the male of Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 with a proposed new diagnostic character for the family Nesticidae Simon, 1894 (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa, 4085 (2), 248–264 pdf on request
2015
Logunov, D.V. & Jäger, P. (2015) Spiders from Vietnam (Arachnida: Aranei): new species and records. Russian Entomological Journal, 24 (4), 343–363. pdf
Jäger, P. (2015) Conductor-less and vertically niched: new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Myanmar. Arachnology, 16 (9), 333–350. pdf
Jäger, P. (2015) Der Nat Ma Taung und seine Spinnen. Arachne, 20 (3), 28–36. pdf
Jäger, P. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015) May gen. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features. African Invertebrates, 56 (2), 365–392. pdf
Jäger, P., Li, S. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015) Morphological and molecular taxonomic analysis of Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Sichuan Province, China. Zootaxa, 3999 (3), 363–392. pdf on request
Jäger, P. & Minn, M.Z. (2015) New species in the family Ctenidae Keyserling 1877 from high altitude habitats in Myanmar, with the first case of penetration of the female’s cuticle by a male in the RTA-clade (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa, 3994 (2), 235–252. pdf on request
Bolzern, A. & Jäger, P. (2015) Unexpected occurrence of the genus Eratigena in Laos with description of a new species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa, 3920 (3), 431–442. pdf on request
2014
JÄGER, P. (2014) Olios sjostedti Lessert, 1921 (Araneae: Sparassidae): first description of the female and first record from South Africa and Botswana. — African Invertebrates 55(2): 201–208. pdf
YAO, Z., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Four new species of pholcine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia. — Zootaxa 3793 (3): 331–349. pdf on request
JÄGER, P. (2014) Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species. — Zootaxa 3790 (2): 319–356. pdf
JÄGER, P. (2014) Heteropoda Latreille 1804: new species, synonymies, transfers and records (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). — Arthropoda Selecta (Special Issue Pekka Lehtinen 80th Anniversary) 23 (2): 145–188. pdf
LIN, Y., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Four new spider species of the family Theridiosomatidae from caves in Laos (Arachnida: Araneae). — Zookeys 391: 75–102 pdf
MORADMAND, M., SCHÖNHOFER, A.L. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Molecular phylogeny of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae with focus on the genus Eusparassus and notes on the RTA-clade and “Laterigradae”. — Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 74: 48–65. pdf on request
LI, F., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Six new species of Ochyroceratidae from Southeast Asia (Arachnida: Araneae). — Zootaxa 3768 (2): 119–138. pdf
Technical Assistant Arachnology
Staff
Sabine Thomas
Volunteer
Identifikation europäischer Spinnen
SGN
Prof. Dr. Jochen Martens
Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
- Der Gesang der Vögel als Evolutionsfaktor
- Biodiversität im Nepal-Himalaya
- Systematik und Phylogenie von Spinnentieren
Dr. Manfred Grasshoff
Ehrenamtlicher Mitarbeiter
- Evolutionsforschung
- Konstruktionsmorphologie
- Taxonomie, Systematik und Evolution der Echten Radnetzspinnen (Araneae: Araneidae), z.B. Revision der Gattung Neoscona in Afrika
SGN
Dr. Axel Schönhofer
Freier Mitarbeiter
- Revision der Brettkanker in Europa (Opiliones: Trogulidae)
- Taxonomie und Systematik von Weberknechten Mitteleuropas und Südafrikas (Opiliones)
- zur Zeit: Dateneingabe und Sammlungsmanagement (SeSam)
SGN
Dr. Reinhard Gerecke
Freier Mitarbeiter
- Taxonomie, Systematik, Ökologie und Zoogeographie von Wassermilben insbesondere aus Europa und Afrika (Acari: Hydrachnidia).
2019
Jäger, P. (2019) Review of the huntsman spider genus Rhitymna Simon, 1897 (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa 4560 (3), 441–462.pdf on request
Kropf, C., Blick, T., Brescovit, A.D., Chatzaki, M., Dupérré, N., Gloor, D., Haddad, C.R., Harvey, M.S., Jäger, P., Marusik, Y.M., Ono, H., Rheims, C.A. & Nentwig, W. (2019) How not to delimit taxa: A critique on a recently proposed „pragmatic classification“ of jumping spiders (Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae). Zootaxa, 4545 (3), 444–446.pdf on request
2018
Jäger, P. (2018) On the genus Systaria (Araneae: Clubionidae) in Southeast Asia: new species from caves and forests. Zootaxa, 4504 (4), 524–544.pdf on request
Jäger, P. (2018) The second true troglobiont Heteropoda species from a limestone cave system in Palawan, Philippines (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). Arachnology 17 (8), 427–431. pdf
Lin, Y., Li, S. & Jäger, P. (2018) Tetrablemmidae (Arachnida, Araneae), a spider family newly recorded from Cambodia. Zookeys 777: 43–55. pdf
Klass, K., Blank, S., Dorow, W., Jäger, P., Köhler, G., Morkel, C. & Nuß, M. (2018) ediCALL, oder wie können wir unsere wissenschaftlichen Sammlungen erschließen, digitalisieren und in Wert setzen? Natur Forschung Museum 148 (4–6): 75–79. pdf
Jäger, P., Sierwald, P., Bieler, R. & Decker, P. (2018) Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 55, iii–viii. pdf
Solórzano Kraemer, M.M., Delclòs, X., Clapham, M.E., Arillo, A., Peris, D., Jäger, P., Stebner, F., Peñalver, E. (2018) Artrhropods in modern resins reveal if amber accurately recorded forest arthropod communities. PNAS. doi/10.1073/pnas.1802138115.pdf on request
Zhong, Y., Jäger, P., Chen, J. & Liu, J. (2018) Taxonomic review of the Sinopoda okinawana-group (Araneae: Sparassidae) in China. Zootaxa 4388 (3), 328–346.pdf on request
2017
Zhang, H, Jäger, P. & Liu, J. (2017) One new Pseudopoda species group (Araneae: Sparassidae) from Yunnan Province, China, with description of three new species. — Zootaxa 4318 (2), 271–294. pdf on request
Siyam, M., Dunlop, J.A. & Jäger, P. (2017) Further spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 17 (6), 317–322. pdf
Selden, P. & Jäger, P. (2017) Otto Kraus 1930–2017. Arachnology 17 (6), 323–324. pdf
2016
Jäger, P. (2016) A plea for taxonomic drawings and against pure photo-taxonomy. Indian Journal of Arachnology, 5 (1–2), 61–66. pdf
Kulkarni, S. & Jäger, P. (2016) Third Conference of the Asian Society of Arachnology in Amravati, India. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society, 136, 3–6. pdf
Moradmand, M., Zamani, A. & Jäger, P. (2106) On the genus Cebrennus Simon, 1880 in Iran with description of a new species from Iranian Central Desert (Araneae: Sparassidae). Zootaxa, 4121 (2): 187–193 pdf on request
Jäger, P. & Kulkarni, S. (2016) An unexpected new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from the Western Ghats in India. Zookeys, 577, 55–62. pdf
Grall, E. & Jäger, P. (2016) Four new species of the spider genus Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 from Laos, Thailand and Myanmar and the first description of the male of Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 with a proposed new diagnostic character for the family Nesticidae Simon, 1894 (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa, 4085 (2), 248–264 pdf on request
2015
Logunov, D.V. & Jäger, P. (2015) Spiders from Vietnam (Arachnida: Aranei): new species and records. Russian Entomological Journal, 24 (4), 343–363. pdf
Jäger, P. (2015) Conductor-less and vertically niched: new species of the genus Pseudopoda (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) from Myanmar. Arachnology, 16 (9), 333–350. pdf
Jäger, P. (2015) Der Nat Ma Taung und seine Spinnen. Arachne, 20 (3), 28–36. pdf
Jäger, P. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015) May gen. nov. (Araneae: Sparassidae): a unique lineage from southern Africa supported by morphological and molecular features. African Invertebrates, 56 (2), 365–392. pdf
Jäger, P., Li, S. & Krehenwinkel, H. (2015) Morphological and molecular taxonomic analysis of Pseudopoda Jäger, 2000 (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae) in Sichuan Province, China. Zootaxa, 3999 (3), 363–392. pdf on request
Jäger, P. & Minn, M.Z. (2015) New species in the family Ctenidae Keyserling 1877 from high altitude habitats in Myanmar, with the first case of penetration of the female’s cuticle by a male in the RTA-clade (Arachnida: Araneae: Ctenidae). Zootaxa, 3994 (2), 235–252. pdf on request
Bolzern, A. & Jäger, P. (2015) Unexpected occurrence of the genus Eratigena in Laos with description of a new species (Araneae: Agelenidae). Zootaxa, 3920 (3), 431–442. pdf on request
2014
JÄGER, P. (2014) Olios sjostedti Lessert, 1921 (Araneae: Sparassidae): first description of the female and first record from South Africa and Botswana. — African Invertebrates 55(2): 201–208. pdf
YAO, Z., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Four new species of pholcine spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae) from Southeast Asia. — Zootaxa 3793 (3): 331–349. pdf on request
JÄGER, P. (2014) Cebrennus Simon, 1880 (Araneae: Sparassidae): a revisionary up-date with the description of four new species and an updated identification key for all species. — Zootaxa 3790 (2): 319–356. pdf
JÄGER, P. (2014) Heteropoda Latreille 1804: new species, synonymies, transfers and records (Araneae: Sparassidae: Heteropodinae). — Arthropoda Selecta (Special Issue Pekka Lehtinen 80th Anniversary) 23 (2): 145–188. pdf
LIN, Y., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Four new spider species of the family Theridiosomatidae from caves in Laos (Arachnida: Araneae). — Zookeys 391: 75–102 pdf
MORADMAND, M., SCHÖNHOFER, A.L. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Molecular phylogeny of the huntsman spider family Sparassidae with focus on the genus Eusparassus and notes on the RTA-clade and “Laterigradae”. — Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 74: 48–65. pdf on request
LI, F., LI, S. & JÄGER, P. (2014) Six new species of Ochyroceratidae from Southeast Asia (Arachnida: Araneae). — Zootaxa 3768 (2): 119–138. pdf
