In Taiwan, spider research started late. A decade or so ago when Chen Shyh-hwang was revising the species list of Taiwanese spiders, he discovered that of the more than 300 species already described at the time, the bulk had been recorded by early adventurers, and of the 65 species newly recorded in the previous 20 years, almost all had been found in surveys by Japanese scientists.
在台灣，研究蜘蛛的起步較晚，十幾年前，陳世煌在整理台灣蜘蛛清單時發現，目前已發表的種類有三百多種，除早期探險家的紀錄，過去二十年台灣新紀錄的六十五種蜘蛛，幾乎都出自日本學者的調查。