Arachnology is a specialized branch of zoology dedicated to the study of arachnids, a diverse group of invertebrates currently comprising over 110,000 species from around the world. Arachnids include spiders and related groups such as ticks, mites, scorpions, pseudoscorpions, and harvestmen.
Subdisciplines
- Acarology: the study of ticks and mites.
- Araneology: the study of spiders.
- Opilionology: the study of harvestmen.
- Paleoarachnology: the study of fossil arachnids.
- Scorpiology: the study of scorpions.
Societies
- Acarological Society of Iran
- African Arachnological Society (AFRAS)
- American Arachnological Society (AAS)
- Arachnologia Belgica – Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging (AraBel)
- Arachnological Society of Japan (ASJ)
- Arachnologische Gesellschaft (AraGes)
- Aracnofilia – Associazione Italiana di Aracnologia
- Asian Society of Arachnology (ASA)
- Association Francaise d’Arachnologie (AsFrA)
- Australasian Arachnological Society (AAS)
- British Arachnological Society (BAS)
- British Tarantula Society (BTS)
- Česká arachnologická společnost – Czech Arachnological Society
- Deutsche Arachnologische Gesellschaft (DeArGe)
- European Society of Arachnology (ESA)
- Grupo Ibérico de Aracnologia (GIA)
- International Society of Arachnology (ISA)
- Peckham Society
- Red de Aracnología Emergente Latina – Network of Emergent Latin American Arachnologists
- Slovenská arachnologická spoločnosť – Slovak Arachnological Society (SARS)
- The Acarological Society of America
- The Acarological Society of Japan
- The Spider Club of Southern Africa
Journals
- Acari – Bibliographia Acarologica
- Acarina: Russian Journal of Acarology
- Acarines: Journal of the Egyptian Society of Acarology
- Acarologia
- Acarologie
- Acta Arachnologica
- Acta Arachnologica Sinica
- Arachne
- Arachnida: Rivista Aracnologica Italiana
- Arachnoculture
- Arachnology
- Arachnology Letters
- Arthropoda Selecta
- Euscorpius
- Experimental and Applied Acarology
- Frontiers in Arachnid Science – Arachnid Morphology, Systematics and Evolution
- International Journal of Acarology
- Journal of Arachnology
- Journal of Entomological and Acarological Research
- Journal of the Acarological Society of Japan
- Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society
- Journal of the British Tarantula Society
- Pavouk
- Peckhamia
- Persian Journal of Acarology
- Revista Ibérica de Aracnología
- Revue Arachnologique
- Serket
- Systematic and Applied Acarology
- Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases