After recently becoming curious about spiders, biology lecturer Shyh-Hwang Chen of NTNU discovered that he could find no other colleagues in the ROC who were researching the arthropods. While revising the list of Taiwan's spider species, Chen discovered that compared with 20 years ago, 65 species had been added, but apart from two he had recorded himself, all had been reported by Japanese scholars.
近來對蜘蛛產生好奇的師大生物系講師陳世煌，在國內找不到研究蜘蛛的同好，他在整理台灣蜘蛛清單發現，和二十年前比較，多出六十五種蜘蛛，但除他記錄的兩種，有六十三種都出自日本學者。