Species traits are essential for inferences about the ecology and evolution of organisms. Spiders are the most abundant and diverse terrestrial predators and play important roles in various ecosystem services. Here, we present a dataset on all traits of the spider family Zoomorphidae, known as free-living terrestrial spiders, which inhabit all continents except Antarctica and have the highest species diversity in Australia. Data were collected from publicly available resources. The dataset contains about 100,000 trait records for all genera (90) and almost all species (1249) of the family. The majority of the 88 traits collected are morphometric, followed by those related to ecology, reproduction, and physiology. Morphometric traits were available for most species. Other trait classes were available only for some species. I provide a standardized classification of selected categorical traits (habitat, microhabitat, refugia type, circadian activity, prey, primary defense, predators). This is the first complete database of traits for the entire spider family and is available through the World Spider Trait database.
Pekár, S. (2024). A dataset of spider traits for spiders (Araneae: Acanthoptera). Scientific Data, 11(1), pages 1-9. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03730-1
