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Neotropical Arachnological Collections: Basic Tools for the Development of Spider Research

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Natural history collections are essential tools for development in biological research. Since the nineteenth century, arachnological collections in the Neotropics have been collaborating to carry out research on spiders and human resource training. In many cases, they have been the starting point of several research fields and the first steps allowing the development of arachnological studies in many Latin American countries. An important part of the future production of arachnological knowledge is deposited in these collections. They preserve critical data about the natural history of Neotropical spiders in several areas of knowledge, such as taxonomy, systematics, ecology, ethology, and biogeography. The present chapter is focused on the historical, present, and future perspectives of Neotropical arachnological collections and their contribution to spider research. We also discuss the main role that araneological collections will play in the future of knowledge of Neotropical spider diversity and its conservation.

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Acknowledgements

O.F. and G.M. give special thanks to Ubaldo Melo Samper Palacios for all his help and support with the PostgreSQL database and the electronic entering of thousands of specimen; to Carmen Loyola for the images, and to Ana Francke for improving the English language. A. D. B. thanks colleagues Rafael P. Indicatti and Marcelo R. Duarte for the photographs, Thamara A. Barros for assisting with numerical data, and Leandro Pedroso for the English translation. Funding agencies: CNPq (Process 301776/2004-0) and FAPESP (2011/50689-0). C.V. thanks Maris Briggs for time and assistance provided in the correction and improvement of English language in this work. C.S. is grateful for the curators of the Argentine Institutions other than MACN for providing information of the collections under their responsibility.

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  1. Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Instituto Butantan, Av. Vital Brasil, 1500, CEP 05503-900, São Paulo, SP, Brazil

    Antonio D. Brescovit

  2. Departamento de Zoología, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 3er Circuito exterior s/n, Ciudad Universitaria, Coyoacán, CP 04510, Mexico

    Oscar Francke & Griselda Montiel Parra

  3. Sección Entomología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de la República, Iguá 4225, CP 11400, Montevideo, Uruguay

    Álvaro Laborda & Miguel Simó

  4. División Aracnología, Museo Argentino de Ciencias Naturales “Bernardino Rivadavia” (CONICET), Av. Ángel Gallardo 470, C1405DJR, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Cristina Scioscia

  5. Independent Researcher, Heredia, Costa Rica

    Carlos Víquez Núñez

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Brescovit, A.D. et al. (2017). Neotropical Arachnological Collections: Basic Tools for the Development of Spider Research. In: Viera, C., Gonzaga, M. (eds) Behaviour and Ecology of Spiders. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65717-2_3

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