| September 2024 | We cover now 5739 species with 56111 figures, 7388 photos and 4053 references. |
| August 2024 | Daniel Gloor left the editorial group. Thank you Daniel, you gave Spiders of Europe its present form and were a stroke of luck for us. |
| January 2022 | In 2021 more than 400 sessions per day. |
| October 2019 | Robert Bosmans becomes a co-author. |
| August 2019 | Inclusion of the five North African countries into the distribution map adds 600 species. |
| May 2017 | The database includes now more than 36000 figures, 2200 references and 5100 photos for 4447 species. |
| November 2016 | Links to "Les araignées de Belgique et de France" integrated on species data sheets (thanks to Pierre Oger). |
| August 2015 | Biodiversity modul added. |
| March 2015 | Distribution map with new category "not established". Comments added on alien species. |
| Februar 2015 | New frontend for the linyphiid matrix key of Anna Stäubli online. |
| Juli 2014 | Species records for Albania and Kosovo revised (thanks to Blerina Vrenozi). |
| Januar 2014 | New genus keys for Dictynidae (Yuri M Marusik), Eresidae (Milan Rezac), Gnaphosidae, Liocranidae (Jörg Wunderlich), Lycosidae (Dmitri Logunov), Philodromidae (Christoph Muster), Pholcidae (Bernhard Huber), Sparassidae (Peter Jäger), Theridiidae (Barbara Thaler-Knoflach), Zodariidae (Stano Pekar) provided. Thanks to them all. |
| Januar 2013 | The database includes now more than 21.000 figures, 1000 references and 2300 photos for 4499 species. |
| August 2012 | Barcoding module added. |
| March 2012 | Photo gallery added. Thanks to Barbara Thaler-Knoflach, Jørgen Lissner and Fulvio Gasparo for providing the first photos. |
| February 2012 | Species from the Asian part of Turkey included (thanks to Bayram and colleagues). |
| November 2011 | Distribution information for the Caucasus Region and links to caucasus-spiders.info integrated on species data sheets (thanks to Stefan Otto). Also link for salticid species to http://www.jumping-spiders.com integrated (thanks to Heiko Metzner). |
| June 2011 | The separate DELTA key to linyphiid spiders with a matrix of 42 characters allows to identify 800 (out of 1200) European linyphiid species. Thanks to Anna Stäubli and helpers. |
| January 2011 | More than 250 visitors daily. |
| November 2010 | Araneae - Spiders of Europe going public. |
| August 2010 | Start of the beta version with a group of experts. |
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May 2010 |
Natural History Museum Basel and Bern first sponsors. |
| April 2010 | We cover now more than 3927 species, 611 genera, 58 families and the database includes 16.482 figures and 661 references. |
| February 2010 | First alpha release of Spiders of Europe presented to the editors. |
| December 2008 | Database administration backend finished. |
| October 2007 | Translation of key and datasheet content completed. |
| December 2006 | Parsing of existing key content and species information into the database completed. |
| April 2006 | Daniel Gloor joints the editorial group as IT. |
| October 2005 | All European species included from Fauna Europaea. |
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September 2005 |
Decision to switch to a true database and enlarge the geographical focus to Europe. |
| July 2003 | More than 100 visitors daily. |
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March 2002 |
We cover now 330 genera and 1350 species and include 11.000 figures. |
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March 2002 |
First parts as English version available. |
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February 2002 |
In all genus keys sex symbols allow a fast switch to the other sex |
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October 2001 |
First distribution maps included. |
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August 2000 |
We cover now 325 genera and 1260 species for Central Europe. |
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July 2000 |
Official launch at the 19th European Conference of Arachnology in Aarhus, Denmark. |
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June 2000 |
Family keys to genera improved. |
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May 2000 |
Key to genera for 43 families improved. |
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March 2000 |
Nemesiidae and Ctenizidae included by Arthur Decae. |
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January 2000 |
New key to theridiid genera provided by Barbara Knoflach-Thaler. |
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December 1999 |
Improved version of the key to families available. |
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September 1999 |
First version of Lexicon and References. |
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May 1999 |
All taxa from Heimer & Nentwig are included, we start to include additional species. |
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December 1998 |
First copyright permits allow the beginning of the practical work. |
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May 1998 |
Project idea: Heimer & Nentwig (1991) shall be used as starting point for an internet key for Central European spiders in HTML format. |