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There are more than 30,000 spider species known to science. The identification of a spider is mostly very difficult and the use of a microscope is needed to compare the copulation organs with drawings in scientific books and articles. That's the reason why you won't find many identification keys on the internet at the moment. However, many spiders you find in your garden or at home can be identified with the help of pictures. For this you can use the links at the spider section or the pictures section.
The links here on this page can be useful too.

Spinnen Mitteleuropas

• Spiders of Europe Images and Species Descriptions. Text and more than 1000 photographs of about 400 species by Jørgen Lissner (in English and Danish) (Denmark)
  
• Spiders & immunology & Araneae, Spiders of North-West Europe With more than 700 very good pictures of European and Australian spiders. Ed Nieuwenhuys (The Netherlands)

   

  

   

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  • Les araignées de Belgique et de France Very good site with a high number of pictures (spider, palp, epigyne). Pierre Oger (in French) (Belgium)
    
  • BugGuide.Net An online resource devoted to North American insects, spiders and their kin, offering identification, images, and information. With spiders, harvestmen, mites, scorpions, pseudoscorpions. BugGuide.Net (USA)
    
  • The Families of Spiders Represented in the British Isles With an interactive key, descriptions and scans of Blackwall's (1861 and 1864) drawings. L. Watson and M. J. Dallwitz (UK)
    
  • A Guide to Common Singapore Spiders A lot of pictures and information. Joseph K. H. Koh (Singapore)
    
  • Linyphiid spiders on the web Very good pictures of Linyhiid spiders with short info (in Japanese) (Japan)
    
  • Las partes de una araña The body parts of a spider (in Spanish) by Fernando Pèrez-Miles (Uruguay)
    
  • Spider Photogallery of Northern and Central European Species Several hundred pictures! Jorgen Lissner (in Danish and English)
    
  • Identifying the Spiders of Kentucky With basic spider identification (USA)
    
  • Victorian Spiders This site presents spiders commonly found in and around homes and gardens throughout Victoria, Australia. The descriptions have been designed to allow easy visual identification using characteristics such as web, colour markings and body form. Museum Victoria (Australia)
    
  • Spider Identification Spider Identification. Some spiders.
    
  • Spiders - An Electronic Field Guide A spider identification guide. Nina Savransky & Jennifer Suhd-Brondstatter (USA)
    
  • The Wolf Spiders of Australia (Araneae, Lycosidae) Checklist, Taxonomy and Identification. Volker W. Framenau (Australia)
    
  • Common Spiders in Japan Pictures of several spiders. Mikio Sekine (In English and Japanese) (Japan
    
  • Pavúka Slovenska Very nice site about the spiders of Slovakia. Stanislav Korenko (in Slovak and English)
    
  • Glossary of Entomology Terms San Diego Natural History Museum (USA)
    
  • Order Araneae. pp. 1–13. – In: Gerecke, R. (ed.): Süßwasserfauna von Mitteleuropa JÄGER, P., Spektrum Elsevier (in German)
    
  • Al-Spiders A web site that wants to bring together spider pictures from all over the world to help the identification of spiders. Ales Pokorny (in English and Czech) (Czech Republic)

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