The Canadian government has been compiling a list of every wild species ever recorded in Canada. They have put out a report every 5 years: 2000, 2005, 2010, 2015, 2020. The first report only dealt with vertebrates. The latest deals with plants, arthropods, fungi, and more. The list of species is ava…

Here’s a list of spider names in the wildspecies list which have been added to iNaturalist at one time or another. As stated above, these names are a mixture of pre-existing names and ones creates by wildspecies. Ones with “(pre-2003)” in the notes appeared in the American Arachnological Society’s …

Split into multiple posts because there’s a character limit. Scientific Name Wildspecies Name (Oct. 2024) Default iNaturalist Name Notes Cicurina arcuata Curved Comb-tailed Spider add…

Scientific Name Wildspecies Name (Oct. 2024) Default iNaturalist Name Notes Admestina tibialis Stout Thick-legged Jumping Spider added 2024-09-23 by raymie citing NatureServe Explorer, deleted 2…

Flag for Linyphiidae: https://www.inaturalist.org/flags/845748 See also https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/source-of-common-names-for-canadian-species/84777/32

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