A Field Guide to Spiders of Australia

This excellent field guide overs all known Australian spider families and uses photographs of live animals to enable identification of commonly encountered spiders to the family level and, in some cases, to genus and species. Featuring over 1,300 colour photographs, it is the most comprehensive account of Australian spiders ever published. With more than two-thirds of Australian spiders yet to be scientifically described, this book sets the scene for future explorations of our extraordinary Australian fauna.  This book has been reprinted in mid 2025 to incorporate updated information including highly accurate  taxonomy changes.

About the Authors:  Robert Whyte is an honorary researcher in arachnology at the Queensland Museum. He is an accomplished editor, author and journalist, with skills in photography and publication design. Greg Anderson is a biomedical research scientist and is an emeritus research fellow at  the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute in Brisbane. He has travelled extensively around Australia and other parts of the world studying and photographing spiders.