ISBN ISBN 90 04 11959 0. In English.
Publication date: November 2000 (604 pp, approx.180 illus, 50 maps).
List price EUR 164.- / US$ 201.- / DGL 361.41, Hardbound.

Forest Spiders of South East Asia offers the first comprehensive systematic account of all sac and ground spiders of South East Asia, which together constitute an estimated 12% of all spiders in the region. All ten subfamilies, 57 genera and numerous species of the region are defined, described, and illustrated. One new subfamily and a large number of new genera and species are described and named. Several hundreds additional, described and new, species are referred to. Distribution of all species covered in this volume is shown in 50 maps. More than a thousand line drawings and 16 colour photographs are used to illustrate the descriptions of the species, of which the great majority has never been illustrated before.

The book provides a modern revision of all sac and ground spiders with clear illustrated diagnosis and descriptions of all known members of this group and many new species and genera. Identification of all 47 families occurring in the region is illustrated in beautiful and detailed drawings.

Readership: The work will be of special interest to academics, professionals and educated laymen. It will be a useful handbook for spider taxonomists, field workers and others involved in spider-related ecological studies, biodiversity and conservation, and studies in zoogeography and applied biology.

Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold (University of Leiden, 1978) has published numerous, mainly taxonomic, papers on spiders from caves and forests in the Balkans, Greece and the tropical Orient, including a revision of the Dysderinae and the Ochyroceratidae