Spider Biology
暫譯: 蜘蛛生物學

本書基於已建立的著作《蜘蛛生物學》，但進行了全面更新。它專注於蜘蛛的一般生物學和自然歷史——並不涉及蜘蛛的識別。

幾乎涵蓋了蜘蛛生物學的所有方面，從解剖學和生理學到神經生物學和行為，從蜘蛛毒液到獵物捕捉，從絲的產生到複雜的網絡建造。

本書不僅吸引蜘蛛愛好者、專業的蛛形學家和動物學家，也適合任何對生物學感興趣的人。它以清晰明瞭的風格撰寫，使一般讀者易於閱讀。

Rainer F. Foelix (1943) studied Natural Sciences in Germany (University of Erlangen) and Switzerland (University of Zurich) from 1962-1968 and received his PhD in Zoology in 1969. He then spent five years as a postdoctoral researcher in the USA (North Carolina), where he began his spider research in the laboratory of Peter Witt, who had discovered the influence of drugs on spider webs. However, his focus was more on functional anatomy and neurobiology, especially on the sensory organs of web spiders. These studies were later expanded on ticks (Entomology Dept. NCSU) and other arachnid orders such as scorpions and whip spiders at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. His first book on spiders was published in German (Biologie der Spinnen) in 1979 and in English in 1982 and quickly became the reference book on spiders.
Later positions (after 1982) were held at the Anatomy and Zoology Departments of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland) and finally as Curator of the Natural History Museum in Aarau (Switzerland) (until 2008). Even after his retirement, his research on spiders continued, with numerous original arachnological publications appearing over a period of 50 years.

雷納·F·福利克斯（1943年）於1962年至1968年間在德國（埃爾朗根大學）和瑞士（蘇黎世大學）學習自然科學，並於1969年獲得動物學博士學位。隨後，他在美國（北卡羅來納州）擔任五年的博士後研究員，並在彼得·維特的實驗室開始了他的蜘蛛研究，彼得·維特發現了藥物對蜘蛛網的影響。然而，他的研究重點更多集中在功能解剖學和神經生物學，特別是網蜘蛛的感覺器官。這些研究後來擴展到蜱（北卡羅來納州立大學昆蟲學系）以及德國波鴻魯爾大學的其他蛛形綱目，如蠍子和鞭蛛。他的第一本關於蜘蛛的書籍於1979年以德文出版（《Biologie der Spinnen》），1982年以英文出版，並迅速成為蜘蛛的參考書籍。
在1982年之後，他在瑞士弗里堡大學的解剖學和動物學系任職，最後擔任瑞士阿勞自然歷史博物館的策展人（直到2008年）。即使在退休後，他對蜘蛛的研究仍然持續，並在50年間發表了大量原創的蛛形綱學術出版物。