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These authors kindly allowed us to reproduce their figures and gave useful comments:
Bjarte Aadland, Kjetil Aakra, Ingi Agnarsson, Adile Akpınar, Mark Alderweireldt, Pietro Alicata, Henrik Almquist for Sven Almquist †, Igor Armiach Steinpress, Georg Artmann-Graf, Martin Askins, Galina Azarkina, José A. Barrientos, Tobias Bauer, Elisabeth Bauchhenss, Steffi Baum, Heiko Bellmann †, Adrià Bellvert Bantí, Robb Bennett, Gergin Blagoev, Rose de Blauwe, Dieter Boockhagen, Angelo Bolzern, Jan Bosselaers, Allen R. Brady, Wilfried Breuss, Jan Buchar †, Bas Buenen, Heinrich Bürgis, Pedro Cardoso, Jose Carrillo, Ľudmila Černecká, Maria Chatzaki, Jonathan Coddington, Detlev Cordes, İlhan Coşar, Luis Crespo, Sergei N. Danilov, Tarik Danışman, Arthur Decae, Christa Deeleman-Reinhold, Sylvain Déjean, Christo Deltshev, Hakan Demir, Jonty Denton, Francesca Di Franco, Dimitar Dimitrov, Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman, Ludêk J. Dobroruka †, Rainer Dröschmeister, Ioan Duma, Viktor Efimik, Sergei Esyunin, Miguel A. Ferrández, Olivier-David Finch, Arne Fjellberg, Holger Frick, Guido Gabriel, Claudia Gack, Peter Gajdoš, Richard Gallon, Fulvio Gasparo, Donard Geci, Valery Gnelitsa, Manfred Grasshoff, Gordana Grbić, Ute Grimm, Charles E. Griswold, Ole Gudik-Sørensen, Harald Hansen †, Erling Hauge †, Peter J. van Helsdingen, Sérgio Henriques, Martin Hepner, Christophe Hervé, Paul Hillyard, Heikki Hippa, Peter 'Otto' Horak †, Bernhard A. Huber, Steven IJland, Etienne Iorio, Marco Isaia, Peter Jäger, Ludwig Jansen, Elke Jantscher, Lars J. Jonsson, Rudy Jocqué, Zoya A. Kastrygina, Barbara Knoflach-Thaler, Peter Kolshorn, Marjan Komnenov, Christian Komposch, Seppo Koponen, Jan Korba, Rok Kostanjšek, Gábor Kovács, Mykola Kovblyuk, Otto Kraus †, Torbjörn Kronestedt, Kadir B. Kunt, Janusz Kupryjanowicz, Žan Kuralt, Eugene Kuzmin, Sylvain Lecigne, Jean-Claude Ledoux †, Pekka T. Lehtinen, Herbert W. Levi †, Gershom Levy †, Shuqiang Li, Jørgen Lissner, Dmitri V. Logunov, Harald Løvbrekke, Yuri M. Marusik, Richard Maurer, Antonio Melic, Peter Merrett, Heiko Metzner, László Mezőfi, Kirill Mikhailov, Majid Moradmand, Eduardo Morano, Manfred Moritz, Glenn H. Morka, Christoph Muster, Parwis Nabavi, Anton Nadolny, Maria Naumova, Aart P. Noordam, Martin Obrist, Pierre Oger, Hirotsugo Ono, Brent Opell, Vladimir Ovtsharenko, Geoff Oxford, Paolo Pantini, Stano Pekár, Carlo Pesarini †, Walter Pfliegler, Lionel Picard, Norman Platnick †, Nina Polchaninova, Alexander Ponomarev, Thomas R. Prentice, Jerzy Prószyński, Ulrich M. Ratschker, Franz Renner, Milan Řezáč, Carles Ribera, Michael J. Roberts †, Barbara Roth, Vincent Roth †, Vlastimil Růžička, Michael Saaristo †, Peter Sacher, Ferenc Samu, Michael Schäfer, Nikolaj Scharff, Hans-Bert Schikora, Peter Schwendinger, Paul Selden, Hendrik Segers, Antoine Senglet †, Anna Šestáková, Osman Seyyar, Daniella Sherwood, Rowley Snazell, Joe Soencksen, Daxiang Song †, Boban Stankovic, Tatsumi Suguro, Csaba Szinetár, Eva Szita, Dawid Szymański, Jean-Philippe Taberlet, Andrei V. Tanasevitch, Akio Tanikawa, Abdulhamed Mohamed Teriki, Konrad Thaler †, Gabriele Töpfer-Hofmann, Paolo Tongiorgi †, Aydın Topçu, Rishikesh Tripathi, Alessio Trotta, Hans Turner, Carmen Urones, Emmanuel Vidal, Olivier Villepoux, Cor Vink, Jakob Walter, Xinping Wang, Ingmar Weiss, Gerhard Wegener, Wanda Wesołowska, Andreas Wolf, Jörg Wunderlich, Gie Wyckmans, Herman Vanuytven, Hajime Yoshida, Marek Żabka, Alireza Zamani, Sergei Zonstein.
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 Arachnological Society (Journal of Arachnology)
American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA (Bulletin, Novitates)
Arachnological Society of Japan (Acta Arachnologica)
Arachnologische Gesellschaft (Arachnologische Mitteilungen/Arachnology Letters)
British Arachnological Society (Bulletin, Newsletter)
British Tarantula Society (Journal)
Chinese Arachnological Society (Acta Arachnologica Sinica)
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
Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences (Biologia)
KMK Scientific Press (Arthropoda Selecta)
Kosmos-Verlag, Stuttgart (bw drawings from Heiko Bellmann in Kosmos-Atlas-Spinnentiere Europas)
L’Association Française d’Arachnologie (Revue Arachnologique Série 2)
Magnolia Press (Zootaxa)
Museum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck (Veröffentlichungen)
Muséum Genève (Revue Suisse de Zoologie)
Naturwissenschaftlicher Verein Hamburg (Abhandlungen)
Naturwissenschaftlicher-Medizinischer Verein in Innsbruck (Berichte)
Parey Buchverlag (Blackwell Wissenschaftsverlag GmbH) (drawings from Spinnen Mitteleuropas)
Pensoft (ZooKeys)
Publishing House Joerg Wunderlich
Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, Belgium
Sociedad Entomologica Aragonesa (Revista Ibérica de Aracnología)
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)
These persons kindly provided photos for our gallery:
Bjarte Aadland, Gordon Ackermann, Walter Bichler, Vincent Blondel (Naturelles Balades), Burkhard Bogensberger, Bas Buenen, Jose Carrillo, Steve Daniels, Stephan Danner, Wolfgang Dibiasi, Geir Drange, Antonio M. Echavarren, Benjamin Eggs, Stefan Erdin, Paolo F. Fabene, Victor Falzon, Arne Fjellberg, Petra Fleurbaaij, Fulvio Gasparo, Donard Geci, Ursula Gönner, Marina Gorbunova, Molly Grace, Hubert Höfer, Etienne Iorio, Vladislav Ivanov, Ludwig Jansen, William Jones, Robert Kekenbosch, Hans-Ulrich Kohler, Gábor Kovács, Mykola Kovblyuk, Boris Krasnov, Eugene Kuzmin, Jørgen Lissner (jorgenlissner.dk), Pierre Loria, Mousaid Mohamed, Eduardo Morano, Glenn H. Morka, Anton Nadolny, Mark Pajak, Mauro Paschetta, Adam Pavella, Ricardo Ramos da Silva, Rogerio Rodrigues, Felix Stoll, Viktor Střeštík, Dominik Szymański, Jean-Philippe Taberlet, Barbara Thaler-Knoflach, Jan Schmidt, Vladimir Tkalčić, Guy Vanstraelen, Rubén de Blas Villar.
These persons did the programming and fed our database:
Reto Bänninger, Pierre Bertier, Matthias Burger, Arturo Bolaños, Daniel Gloor, Leila Gurtner, Manuel Kobelt, Marjan Komnenov, Tobias von Mandach, Julian Matter, Michael Pfister, Miguel Richard, Lenka Sentenska, 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:
Arachnologische Gesellschaft
Association for the Promotion of Spider Research
Association Française d’Arachnologie
British Arachnological Society
Bundesamt für Umwelt BAFU
Czech Arachnological Society
European Society of Arachnology
Freiwillige Akademische Gesellschaft Basel
Kantonale Lotterie SEVA Bern
Migros Kulturprozent
Naturhistorischen Museum Basel
Naturhistorischen Museum Bern
Universität Bern
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