Twenty years, eight legs, one concept: describing spider biodiversity in Zootaxa (Arachnida: Araneae).

Zootaxa published more than a thousand papers on Araneae from 2002 to the present, including descriptions of 3,833 new spider species and 177 new genera. Here we summarise the key contributions of Zootaxa to our current knowledge of global spider diversity. We provide a historical account of the researchers that have actively participated as editors, and recognize the more than 1,000 reviewers without whom none of this would have been possible.

Revision of the Australian Union-Jack wolf spiders, genus (Araneae, Lycosidae, Lycosinae).

The Australian wolf spider (Lycosidae Sundevall, 1833) genus Tasmanicosa Roewer, 1959 with Lycosa tasmanica Hogg, 1905 as type species is revised to include 14 species: T. godeffroyi (L. Koch, 1865), comb.

The first described male Tube-web Spider for mainland Australia: sp. nov. (Araneae: Segestriidae).

Males of Ariadna kiwirrkurra sp. nov., collected on the 2015 Bush Blitz biodiscovery expedition to the Kiwirrkurra Indigenous Protected Area (IPA) are the first Segestriid males described for mainland Australia.

The Peacock Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Maratus) of the Queensland Museum, including six new species.

Six new species of the peacock spider genus Maratus Karsch, 1878 are described from Australia: M. eliasi sp. nov.