Reference sources - Arachnids

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http://pensoftonline.net/zookeys/ind.../journal/index
ZooKeys, a comparatively new journal, and a FREE one.
Many papers on inverts, especially spiders, beetles, lepidoptera, and Canadian species. A few papers on millipedes, a few on scorpions, a few on herps, a couple on fossils, and one on centipedes.

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Here are a bunch of references on freshwater and terrestrial isopods, plus one each on crayfishes/freshwater shrimp and tarantulas:

Tarantula Care in Captivity
http://www.mpm.edu/collections/pubs/...tes/tarantula/

Dated, but useful:
The American land and fresh-water isopod Crustacea
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspac.../1/B071a01.pdf

ESTABLISHMENT OF A MEDITERRANEAN ISOPOD (CHAETOPHILOSCIA SICULA VERHOEFF, 1908) IN A NORTH AMERICAN TEMPERATE FOREST
http://www.mtakpa.hu/kpa/download/1077799.pdf

Annotated Checklist of the Isopoda (Subphylum Crustacea: Class Malacostraca) of Arkansas and Oklahoma, with Emphasis Upon Subterranean Habitats
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/O.../v87/p1_14.pdf

The first record of the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare from Quebec
(Isopoda: Oniscidea)
http://www.biology.ualberta.ca/bsc/n...newsletter.pdf

Includes original description of Salmasellus steganothrix from Alberta:
Three New Troglobitic Asellids from Western North America
http://isopods.nhm.org/pdfs/3846/3846.pdf

THREE NEW SPECIES OF SUBTERRANEAN ASELLIDS FROM WESTERN NORTH AMERICA, WITH A SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES OF THE REGION (CRUSTACEA: ISOPODA: ASELLIDAE)

http://isopods.nhm.org/pdfs/4217/4217.pdf

Columbasellus acheron, a new genus and species of subterranean isopod from Washington (Crustacea: Isopoda: Asellidae)

http://atiniui.nhm.org/pdfs/11493/11493.pdf

A preliminary assessment of the native fish stocks of Jasper National Park
(more on distribution of Salmasellus)
http://fwresearch.ca/Library_files/Mayhood%201992c.pdf

Great source on Canadian crayfishes, although the Alberta distribution has changed a lot. Also includes one true freshwater shrimp, known from a river drainage which extends to southern Alberta [though FAR downstream so far]
The Crayfishes & Shrimp of Wisconsin
http://www.mpm.edu/downloads/collect...h/crayfish.pdf

Pay for these, or use a university library to download them free:

TRANSBORDER ASSOCIATIONS OF TERRESTRIAL ISOPODS (CRUSTACEA, ISOPODA, ONISCIDEA) OF MEXICO AND THE UNITED STATES
http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.339...C%5D2.0.CO%3B2

Endemics and immigrants: North American terrestrial isopods (Isopoda, Oniscidea) north of Mexico.
http://www.jstor.org/pss/20106344

Terrestrial Isopod (Crustacea: Isopoda) Atlas for Canada, Alaska, and the Contiguous United States
http://www.mpm.edu/collections/pubs/invertebrates/

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Here's a system and list of North American common names for arachnids:
http://www.americanarachnology.org/acn5.pdf