Sherwood D. 2025. Annotated checklist of imported non-native spider (Araneae) taxa recorded in the United Kingdom 1800–2024 // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.1: 121–160 [in English].
Arachnology Research Association, London, United Kingdom & Fundación Ariguanabo, San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba.
Danniella Sherwood danni.sherwood@hotmail.com, ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8170-9529
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.1.10
ABSTRACT. An annotated checklist of non-native spiders historically and contemporaneously known to have been accidently imported into the United Kingdom is given, a total of 35 families, 103 genera, and 131 species are accepted for the checklist. New records, based on material sent to the author over the last decade and further historical museum specimens examined, comprise 35 newly recorded species. Of these, three also represent the first records of their respective genera, and two the first records of their respective families. Five new taxonomic acts are proposed: Clubiona facilis O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1911, stat. rev. (Clubionidae); Bolostromus suspectus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1911, nomen dubium (Cyrtaucheniidae); Lathys lepida O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1909, nomen dubium (Dictynidae); Orchestina dubia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1911; nomen dubium (Oonopidae); and Melos bicolor O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1900, nomen dubium (Theridiidae).
KEY WORDS: accidental, cargo fruit, imported, introduced, invasive, non-native, produce, stowaway, vagrant.