Record of the Eye Spotted Araneid Spider Araneus bilunifer Pocock, 1900 from West Bengal

Araneid Taxonomy in India was actually started with Westwood (1835). Many other workers like Pocock (1895), Tikader (1970, 1973, 1977, 1982 &1987) Tikader & Biswas (1981); Biswas 1985; Majumder & Talukdar (2006) and Talukdar & Majumder (2008) and many more contributed in this field of study. But the first comprehensive literature regarding the same was The fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma: Araneae published by Pocock in 1900 and after the publication of the Hand book of Indian spiders by Tikader in 1987 studies in this group has got special impetus among the budding taxonomist in India and adjacent countries. Studies on Araneid spiders of India also were well studied by Tikader (1982) along with some other worker contributing several descriptions.