| July 2026 | The work of actualization is done now by Anna Stäubli. Theo Blick stays in the editorial team. Spiders of Europe covers 5927 species with 63140 figures, 7476 photos and 4528 references. |
| January 2026 | Ambros Hänggi is leaving the editorial team at his own request. Thank you for your many years of dedication, Ambros! |
| January 2025 | The database includes now 5775 species with 57452 figures, 7411 photos and 4156 references. In 2024 nearly 500 sessions per day. |
| November 2024 | Anna Stäubli joined the editorial group. |
| September 2024 | The database includes 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 joined the editorial group. |
| 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). |
| September 2016 | The work of actualization is done now by Theo Blick. Daniel Gloor stays in the editorial team. |
| 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. |