Important Scorpion Links:

 

The Scorpion Files by Jan Ove Rein (Trondheim, Norway) (contain the complete list of scorpion taxa)

ARACHNODATA by Matt E. Braunwalder (Zurich, Switzerland)

Bibliography of Scorpions by Gérard Dupré (an exhaustive list of publications on scorpions up to 1998)

Scorpion Emporium by Scott Stockwell (Texas, USA)

Benjamin Gantenbein (Edinburgh, Scotland): Molecular Evolution of Scorpions

Kari's Scorpion Pages by Kari McWest (Texas, USA)

Brent E. Hendrixson's Arachnids

Singapore Scorpion Page by Chua Kian Wee

Yahoo Scorpionfans [former Scorpion-enthusiasts] Online Forum

Scorpions in Turkey by A. & A. Karatas

Scorpionscience.net by Dietmar Huber (Austria)

Scorpions from the Chihuahuan Desert Region of Mexico and the United States by Chad Lee (Texas, USA)

GenBank Database (type in a Latin name and find update on any species' genes and proteins)

Scorpion Toxin Database (Singapore) (search for known toxins)

The Arachnology Home Page on WWW

More Scorpion Links

 

Personalia:

 

Scorpiologists' Gallery  - PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS !!!

 

Scorpiologists' Personal Web Pages:  Luis Acosta, Tim Benton, Richard Bradley, Matt Braunwalder, Philip Brownell, Jason Dunlop, Roger Farley, Gerta Fleissner, Gunther Fleissner, Eduardo Florez, Dan Formanowicz, Doug Gaffin, Benjamin Gantenbein, Alexander Gromov, Neil Hadley, Brent Hendrixson, Richard Henson, Dietmar Huber, Victor Fet, Frantisek Kovarik, Chad Lee, Camilo Mattoni, Kari McWest, Mark Newton, José Ochoa, Alfredo Peretti, Pascal Riewe, Warren Savary, Paul Selden, W. David Sissom, Scott Stockwell, Carlos Toscano-Gadea, Dieter Walossek, Tsunemi Yamashita 

 

Scorpion Toxin Researchers: Michael Gurevitz, Bruce Hammock, Rama Krischna, Marcel Pelhate, Lourival Possani, Carlos Sevcik

 

Scorpiologists' Memorial Gallery

Books:

Scorpions 2001. In Memoriam Gary A. Polis  (V. Fet & P.A. Selden, eds) (2001)

Scorpion Biology and Research (P.H. Brownell & G.A. Polis, eds.) (2001); table of contents

Catalog of the Scorpions of the World (1758-1998) by V. Fet, W.D. Sissom, G. Lowe & M.E. Braunwalder (2000)

The Biology of Scorpions (G.A. Polis, ed.) (1990)

Scorpion Man by L. Pringle & G.A. Polis (1994) -- the life of Gary A. Polis

Scorpions: Everything About Purchase, Care, Feeding, and Housing by Manny Rubio (2000)

The Most Important Books on Scorpions

More Books on Scorpions

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature

Journals (arachnological journals are highlighted):

Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society; Journal of Arachnology; Revista Iberica de Aracnologia; Euscorpius; The American Naturalist; Cladistics; Discover; Evolution; Israel Journal of Zoology; Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins (Brazil); Nature; Nature Conservancy; Organisms, Diversity & Evolution; Revue Suisse de Zoologie; Science; Scientific American; Systematic Biology; Toxicon

Societies (arachnological societies are highlighted):

International Society of Arachnology (ISA, formerly CIDA); American Arachnological Society (AAS); British Arachnological Society (BAS); Arachnologische Gesellschaft (AraGes); Société Européenne d'Arachnologie (S. E. A.); Le Groupe d'Etude des Arachnides (G.E.A.); WWW Directory of Entomological Societies; International Society on Toxinology; Society of Systematic Biologists; Society for the Study of Evolution; Society for Integrated and Comparative Biology

Meetings (arachnological meetings are highlighted):

2002

September 16-20: VII Symposium of The Brazilian Society on Toxinology, Brasilia, Brazil

October 7-13: VIIth European Congress of Entomology, Thessaloniki, Greece   

November 17-20: Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

 

More and more various 2002 meetings

 

2003  27th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Denver, Colorado, USA (to be announced)

2003  August, European Colloquium of Arachnology, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia (to be announced)

2003  October 26-30 Annual Meeting of the Entomological Society of America (ESA) Cincinnati, Ohio, USA 

2004  28th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Norman, Oklahoma, USA (to be announced)

2004  16th International Congress of Arachnology, Ghent, Belgium (to be announced)

XIX International Congress of Zoology, Beijing, China, August 2004 [online brochure distributed on behalf of official organizers]

XXII International Congress of Entomology, Brisbane, Australia, August 15-20 2004

2005  29th Annual Meeting of the American Arachnological Society, Hiram College, Ohio, USA (to be announced)

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