Wikipedia:WikiProject Spiders/genus taxobox example

The taxobox can be either a manual taxobox or an automated taxobox (in this case Automatic taxobox); the latter is currently used in many spider articles and has the advantages of ensuring consistency and making updates easier.

Sample code for an automatic taxobox
All the text enclosed in «..» is replaced by actual values. The value for authority may require parentheses. Using an automatic taxobox assumes that a template "Template:Taxonomy/«genus»" exists or is created. See Introduction to the automated taxobox system for more information.

Sample code for a manual taxobox
All the text enclosed in «..» is replaced by actual values. The value for genus_authority may require parentheses.

Optional and mandatory fields
You can leave certain fields blank (e.g. image, image_caption, range_map). They will then just be invisible until someone fills them in. If name is not filled in, the page title will be used.

Diversity
Here's how the diversity thing goes: there are lists of species or redirects to them for every one of the spider families, and they're named List of species, e.g. List of Atypidae species. So you enter this, and attach an anchor (#) with the genus name to it, eg. List of Atypidae species. This way, users can click on Diversity and see for themselves which species are currently in the respective genus. The lists of species by family tend to be more regularly updated than genus pages.

Range map
If you do create a range map (see example1, example2), please upload it to wikimedia commons, and categorize it as "commons:Category:Spider habitat maps".

Authority
It's nice to link to an author, even if there is no article for them (this way all species described by one person can easily be found). Here are several lists with the full names:
 * WikiProject Spiders/List of Arachnologists
 * List of zoologists by author abbreviation
 * German list of zoologists

Type species
If you provide a WikiProject_Tree_of_Life/taxobox_usage, please use the name of the original description (=first synonym in the World Spider Catalog), but link it to the recent name. The describer in this case should never be in parentheses.