World Arachnida Catalog
The World Arachnida Catalog (WAC) is an amalgamation of the highly successful World Spider Catalog (WSC), the Pseudoscorpions of the World Catalog, and the Smaller Arachnid Order Catalogs.
The new catalogues present all available taxonomic information on eight arachnid orders (Amblypygi, Araneae, Pseudoscorpiones, Ricinulei, Palpigradi, Schizomida, Solifugae and Uropygi) in a single location and a standardised format, continuously updated by specialists, to members of the World Spider Catalog Association (WSCA).
The majority of taxonomic literature for Pseudoscorpiones and the smaller arachnid orders are available in downloadable PDF format for members according to the Swiss copyright laws. Up-to-date counts of families, genera and species are given alongside the current taxonomy for each taxon. Now in a common place and presented in an almost unified format, the new catalogue aims to become the primary repository of taxonomic information for the Arachnida and seeks to stimulate arachnological research across all arachnid orders by removing boundaries imposed by literature accessibility, incompatibility of formats, or taxonomic jargon.
