"For instance, the sheet-web spiders are a big family, but at present there's no-one in Taiwan who knows how to identify them." Chen freely admits that many spiders are small and very similar in appearance, so that their identification takes ample literature, large collections of specimens, and great powers of discernment. Hence spider research in Taiwan is still in its early stages.
「比如皿網蛛科也是大家族，可惜目前台灣還沒有人知道如何鑑定，」陳世煌不諱言，許多蜘蛛體型小、模樣類似，需要豐富的文獻、標本，與高段的辨識功力，因此蜘蛛的研究在台灣仍是先驅工作。