Charles Griswold

I describe spider diversity, focusing especially on Africa, Madagascar, Southeast Asia and South America. I formerly led the CAS Arachnology lab where I supervised twenty- two graduate students and ten postdoctoral researchers. I am a Fellow of the Willi Hennig Society and was President of the American Arachnological Society and the International Society of Arachnology (ISA). For my efforts in research and teaching I was awarded the Paolo Brignoli Award from the ISA, the Lawrence Award for Contributions to African Arachnology over a Lifetime from AFRAS (African Arachnological Society) and a Philippines Congressional Medal.

RESEARCH AREAS

World taxonomic revision and phylogeny of Goblin spiders
In the past 150 years 500 species of goblin spiders have been described: we estimate that the true number is greater than 2000. We are attempting to compress several lifetimes worth of work into 7 years by combining and coordinating the efforts of 40 researchers from around the world, utilizing on-line descriptive and phylogenetic databases, and making extensive use of digital imaging technology. In essence we are attempting to reinvent taxonomy so that this may be done rapidly, consistently, comprehensively, and producing user-friendly products that may be accessed by anyone with access to the internet. CAS participants include Darrell Ubick and Anthea Carmichael (technicians), graduate students Alma Saucedo (San Francisco State) and Natalia Chousou Polydouri (UC Berkeley), former postdoctoral researcher Fernando Álvarez Padilla and myself. This research is supported in large part by the Goblin Spider PBI NSF grant.
Goblin Spider Website

Evolution of spiders
Spider phylogeny has been revolutionized in the last 40 years. Nevertheless, the problem of estimating the phylogeny of all spiders is beyond the grasp of any one person. The Assembling the Tree of Life (AToL) Spiders project brings together the talents of more then 20 researchers from 12 countries to organize existing and develop new data from morphology, behavior and molecules to produce a robust phylogeny for all spider taxa of the tribal level and above. We have tissues for more than 1200 species, have a morphological matrix of more than 900 characters, and have developed an ontology of spider morphology. My role has been particularly as a mentor (at CAS three SSI undergraduates, five graduate students, and three postdoctoral researchers have learned to contribute data for this project), as a collector of specimens and tissues (grant money helped support expeditions to Australia, Myanmar, Madagascar, New Zealand and South Africa), and as an expert on spider morphology.
AToL: Phylogeny of Spiders Website

Survey of biotic hotspots in Asia and Africa
I am involved in two surveys of biotic hotspots (Madagascar and Gaoligongshan, China). Both have been supported by grants from the NSF BSI program. Several expeditions by myself and students have produced more than a million specimens, and more than 750,000 specimens are on loan from the Madagascar project alone. For the Madagascar project I mentored a postdoctoral researcher (Silva), two SFSU graduate students (Andriamalala and Wood) and five Lakeside interns and have so far contributed to nine publications. For the Gaoligongshan project I have mentored two postdoctoral fellows (Wang and Miller) and two Lakeside fellows, and have so far contributed to 15 publications. Graduate student Wood, curatorial assistant Carmichael and I are completing a revision and molecular phylogeny of the spider family Phyxelididae in Madagascar, and graduate student Joel Ledford and I am working on a revision of the spider family Zoropsidae in Madagascar (about 70 new species). With current and former postdoctoral fellows Miller and Wang, I am preparing major revisions of Gaoligongshan symphytognathoid (micro-orb weavers) and coelotine (dark forest runner) spiders.
Gaoligongshan Website
Madagascar Website

Comparative morphology of spiders
New (e.g., the Scanning Electron Microscope, SEM; digital imaging) and old (e.g., microtome) tools have enabled us to study the morphology of spiders in greater detail than ever before, worldwide collections such as at CAS allow us to compare features across all spiders, and the internet enables us to share and compare these data globally. Several research projects ongoing in the CAS Arachnology lab, including student projects on assassin spiders and cave spiders, the Goblin spider PBI, and the Spiders AToL project contribute to a broad documentation of spider morphology, which in turn poses and informs questions on the evolution and function of these morphologies.

EDUCATION

• University of California, Berkeley, Conservation of Natural Resources, B.Sc., 1972
• University of California, Berkeley, Entomology, Ph.D., 1983
• American Museum of Natural History, Entomology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1987-1988
• Smithsonian Institution, Entomology, Postdoctoral Fellow, 1988-1991

APPOINTMENTS

• California Academy of Sciences: Schlinger Chair of Arachnology and Curator, Emeritus (1999-present), Associate Curator (1994-1999), Assistant Curator (1992-1994)
• University of California, Berkeley, Adjunct Professor, Insect Biology, Environmental Science, Policy and Management (2004-2016)
• San Francisco State University, Dept. of Biology, Research Professor (1998-present) Smithsonian Institution, Research Entomologist (1991-1992)
• Natal Museum, Chief Professional Officer, Arachnology Department (1983-1986)

RESEARCH INTERESTS

1. Classification, phylogeny and evolution of spiders, especially as this relates to historical biogeography and to lifestyle (including web) evolution.
2. Large scale discovery of new taxa, processing of specimens, and the analysis of distribution and diversity patterns.
3. Historical biogeography, particularly of Gondwana and of the Afromontane region.
4. Monographs of spiders.
5. Application of data about richness, diversity and endemism to conservation.

POSTDOCTORAL ASSOCIATES ADVISED

• Xinping Wang (Schlinger Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, 2000-2001)
• Jeremy Miller (Gaoligongshan Biotic Survey Postdoctoral Fellow, 2207; Schlinger Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, current) Diana Silva Dávila (Schlinger Chair of Arachnology Postdoctoral fellow, 2001-2006)
• Fernando Alvarez Padilla (Schlinger Chair of Arachnology Postdoctoral fellow, current)

GRADUATE STUDENTS ADVISED, PAST

• San Francisco State University: Alma Saucedo (current, major professor)
• University of California, Berkeley: Steven Lew (Ph.D., current; committee member) Natalia Chousou-Polydouri (Ph.D., current; committee member) Joel Ledford (Ph.D., current; co-advisor and committee member) Hannah Wood (Ph.D., current; co-advisor and committee member)
• The George Washington University: Daniela Andriamalala (Ph.D., current; committee member) Ligia Benevides (Ph.D., current; committee member)
• San Francisco State University: Joel Ledford (M.Sc., 2001) Hannah Wood (M.Sc., 2005) Daniela Andriamalala (M.Sc., 2006) Misha Leong (M.Sc, 2008), committee member
• University of California, Berkeley: Sarah Crews (Ph.D., 2008; committee member)
• The George Washington University: Lara Lopardo (Ph.D., 2009; committee member)
• University of California at Santa Cruz: Martin G. Ramirez (Ph.D., 1990; committee member)
• Rand Afrikaans University, South Africa: Koos de Wet (M.Sc., 1991; committee member)
• University of Natal, South Africa: Peter Croeser (M.Sc., 1996; committee member)
• University of the Orange Free State, South Africa: Leon Lotz (M.Sc., 1996; committee member)

CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: SUMMER SYSTEMATICS INSTITUTE (UNDERGRADUATE ADVISEES)

• Robin Carlson (1996), Joel Ledford (1998), Hillary Guttman (1999) and Nibia Soto-Rolón (2005), Christopher Vo, Vanessa Knutson (2006)

CLASSES TAUGHT

• California Academy of Sciences: Summer Systematics Institute: Lecturer 1996-present; Docent‘s training classes for "Life through time," "Evidence for evolution," and "Living on the land, Africa."
• University of California, Berkeley: ESPM 147-2, Field Entomology – spiders (Spring 2006—2009 [current]).
• Field Courses taught overseas: Biology of Arthropoda, lab and field course for Myanmar Department of Forestry, Yangon, Myanmar, September 2003; Entomological Field Sampling Techniques, Andranomay, Madagascar, December 2000.
• Other: Instructor, 1-day field courses on the biology of spiders for East Bay Regional Parks, College of Marin, and Point Reyes Field Seminars, 1980-1983 (all in CA)

SELECTED GRANT SUPPORT

National Science Foundation (as PI)

• DEB-0613775 "PBI: Collaborative Research: The Megadiverse, Microdistributed Spider Family Oonopidae," September 2006 through August 2011 ($319,303)
• DEB-0072713: 'Terrestrial Arthropod Inventory of Madagascar' (co P.I. with Brian Fisher) 2000—2003 ($400,917)
• DEB 9296271: 'Systematics and Biogeography of Afromontane Spiders,' Sept. 1992-August 1994 ($114,597.00)
• BSR 90-20439: 'Systematics and Biogeography of Afromontane Spiders,' April 1991 through June 1992 ($64,074.00.

National Science Foundation (as collaborating Senior Scientist)

• EAR-0228699: "Assembling the Tree of Life: Phylogeny of Spiders" (Wheeler, Sierwald, Prendini, Hormiga & Coddington P.I.s), 2003—2008 ($2,700,000)
• BSI-0103795: 'Biotic Survey of the Gaoligongshan, a Biodiversity Hotspot in Western Yunnan, China' (N. Jablonski and P. Fritsch, P.I.s), 2002—2007 ($2,400,000)
• BIR-9531307: "REU: California Academy of Sciences Summer Systematics Institute" (R. Mooi, T. Gosliner and D. Kavanaugh, P.I.s) with renewals, since 1995.

Other

• Lindsay Fund for Expeditions to Madagascar/South Africa (Dec. 2005—March 2006), Myanmar (Sept-Oct. 2003) and Madagascar (December 2008—February 2009)
• Lakeside Foundation for International Students: 1999—Balsama Rajemison, Entomology Curator at Parc Tzimbazaza, Madagascar, training in curation techniques for entomological collections for (with B. Fisher). 2000— Daniela Andriamalala, Jean-Jacques Rafanomezantsoa, Balsama Rajemison, Jean Claude Rakotonirina (Madagascar) and Aisha Prather and Madeline van Vyk (South Africa), training in Entomology for four Malagasy and two South Africans (with B. Fisher); 2002— Daniela Andriamalala and Jean-Jacques Rafanomezantsoa (Madagascar): training in Arachnology. 2003— Germania Estevez (Ecuador): training in Arachnology. 2005—Ivalu Avila (Chile): training in Arachnology (with D. Silva). 2005 through 2007— Daniela Andriamalala (Madagascar) M.Sc program at San Francisco State University and preparation and publication of results. 2007—Guo Tang (China): training in Arachnology. 2009—Lina Almeida (Brazil): training in Arachnology.
• Central African Research Programs for the Environment (CARPE): Survey of Terrestrial Arthropod Biodiversity on Bioko, Equatorial Guinea (with Robert Drewes), September-October 1998, $17,000.
• Research Opportunities Fund: Grant 1233F04A, National Museum of Natural History, to J. Coddington and C. Griswold (for fieldwork in Australia), August 1990.
• South African Council for Scientific and Industrial Research support grants: 1985, 1986.

POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS

• Postgraduate Research Fellowships, Department of Entomology, Smithsonian Institution, July 1988-June 1989 and January 1990-February 1991.
• Kalbfleisch Research Fellowships, American Museum of Natural History, January-December 1987 and January-June, 1988.

STUDENT AWARDS

• Exline-Frizzell Fund for Arachnological Research, grant-in-aid, 1985.
• Harvy I. Magy Outstanding Graduate Student Award, Department of Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, 1980.
• Theodore Roosevelt Memorial Fellowship, January-February 1978, Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History.
• Regents Fellowships, University of California, Berkeley, 1976-1977 and 1977-1978.

OTHER AWARDS

• Paolo Brignoli Award from International Society of Arachnology, 2007.

FIELD EXPERIENCE

• Conducted fieldwork in Australia, Bolivia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, China, Costa Rica, Denmark, Guatemala, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Namibia, New Zealand, Panama, São Tomé e Príncipe, South Africa, Switzerland, Tanzania, Uganda and USA.

MEMBERSHIP IN SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES

• African Arachnological Society, founding member
• American Arachnological Society (Director, 1991-93)
• British Arachnological Society
• International Society of Arachnology (Vice President, 2001-2004)
• Pacific Coast Entomological Society
• Society of Systematic Biology
• Willi Hennig Society (Fellow since 1989)

PUBLICATIONS

Jackson, R. R., and C. E. Griswold. 1979. Nest associates of Phidippus johnsoni (Araneae: Salticidae). The The Journal of Arachnology, 7: 59—67.

Griswold, C. E. 1979. New species of Pellenes from California. The The Journal of Arachnology, 7: 129—138. 

Coville, R. E., and C. E. Griswold. 1983. The nesting biology of Trypoxylon xanthandrum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in central America, a hunting wasp specializing on spiders of the family Senoculidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 56 (2): 205—216. 

Griswold, C. E. 1983. Tapinillus longipes Taczanowski, a web-building lynx spider from the American tropics (Araneae: Oxyopidae). Journal of Natural History, 17: 979—985. 

Griswold, C. E. 1984a. The genus Coccorchestes Thorell newly described from Australia (Araneae: Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 6: 147—148. PDF

Griswold, C. E. 1984b. A key to the nominate genera of Mygalomorphae (Chelicerata: Araneae) from southern Africa. Newsletter of the spider club of South Africa, 1(5), seperate, 18 p.

Coville, R. E., and C. E. Griswold. 1984. Biology of Trypoxylon superbum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae), a spider-hunting wasp with extended guarding of the brood by males. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 57: 365—376. Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 7. PDF

Griswold, C. E. 1985a. A revision of the African spiders of the family Microstigmatidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 27: 1—37. PDF

Griswold, C. E. 1985b. Isela okuncana, a new genus and species of kleptoparasitic spider from southern Africa (Araneae: Mysmenidae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 27: 207—217. 

Griswold, C. E. and R. E. Coville. 1986. Observations on the prey and nesting biology of spider-hunting wasps of the genus Trypoxylon (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Costa Rica. Proceedings of the IX international Congress of Arachnology (Panama 1983), pp. 113—116. 

Griswold, C. E. 1987a. A revision of the jumping spider genus Habronattus F. O. P. Cambridge (Araneae: Salticidae), with phenetic and cladistic analyses. University of California Publications in Entomology, 107: i—ix, 1—344.

Griswold, C. E. 1987b. The African members of the trap-door spider family Migidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), I: The genus Moggridgea O. P. Cambridge, 1875. Annals of the Natal Museum, 28: 1—118. 

Griswold, C. E. 1987c. The spider genus Symphytognatha Hickman (Araneae: Symphytognathidae) newly described from Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum, 28: 133—136. PDF

Griswold, C. E. 1987d. The African members of the trap-door spider family Migidae (Araneae: Mygalomorphae), 2: The genus Poecilomigas Simon. Annals of the Natal Museum, 28: 475—497. 15. Griswold, C. E. 1987e. A review of the southern African spiders of the family Cyatholipidae Simon, 1894 (Araneae: Araneomorphae). Annals of the Natal Museum, 28: 499—542. PDF

Griswold, C. E. and N. I. Platnick. 1987. On the first African spiders of the family Orsolobidae (Araneae, Dysderoidea). American Museum Novitates, 2892: 1—14. 

Griswold, C. E. and T. Meikle Griswold. 1987. Archaeodictyna ulova new species, (Araneae: Dictynidae), a remarkable kleptoparasite of group-living eresid spiders (Stegodyphus spp., Araneae: Eresidae). American Museum Novitates, 2897: 1—11. PDF

Moldenke, A. R., B. L. Fichter, W. P. Stephen and C. E. Griswold. 1987. A key to the arboreal spiders of Douglas-fir and true fir forests of the Pacific Northwest. General Technical Report PNW-GTR-207, Portland. OR: U. S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station. 48 p.

Griswold, C. E. 1990. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the spider subfamily Phyxelidinae (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 196: 1—206.

Griswold, C. E. 1991. Cladistic Biogeography of Afromontane Spiders. Australian Systematic Botany, 4(1): 73—89. PDF

Platnick, N. I., Griswold, C. E., and Coddington, J. 1991. On missing entries in cladistic analysis. Cladistics 7: 337—343. Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 8. 

Platnick, N. I., J. A. Coddington, R. F. Forster, and C. E. Griswold. 1991. Spinneret evidence and the higher classification of the haplogyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae). American Museum Novitates, 3016: 1—73.

Griswold, C. E. 1991. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the African spider genus Machadonia Lehtinen (Araneae: Lycosoidea). Entomologica scandinavica, 22: 305—351.

Coddington, J. A., C. E. Griswold, D. Silva-Dávila, E. Peñaranda, and S. Larcher. 1991. Designing and testing sampling protocols to estimate biodiversity in tropical ecosystems. Pp. 44—60 In: Dudley, E. C., (ed.) The Unity of Evolutionary Biology. Proceedings of the Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology. Dioscorides Press: Portland, Ore. 

Griswold, C. E. 1993. Investigations into the phylogeny of the Lycosoid spiders and their kin (Arachnida, Araneae, Lycosoidea). Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 539: 1—39. 

Griswold, C. E. 1994. A revision and phylogenetic analysis of the African spider genus Phanotea Simon (Araneae: Lycosoidea). Annales, Sciences Zoologiques, Musée Royal de L’Afrique Centrale, 273: 1—83.

Griswold, C. E. 1997a. The spider family Cyatholipidae in Madagascar (Araneae: Araneoidea). The The Journal of Arachnology 25: 53—83. PDF

Griswold, C. E. 1997b. Scharffia, a remarkable new genus of spiders from East African Mountains (Araneae, Cyatholipidae). The Journal of Arachnology 25: 269—287. PDF

Griswold, C. E., J. Coddington, G. Hormiga, and N. Scharff. 1998. Phylogeny of the orb-web building spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae: Deinopoidea, Araneoidea). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 122: 1—99.

Griswold, C. E. 1998a. The nest and male of the trap-door spider Poecilomigas basilleupi Benoit, 1962 (Araneae, Migidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 26: 142—148. 

Griswold, C. E. 1998b. Wanzia fako, a new genus and species of spider from Cameroon (Araneae, Cyatholipidae). Entomologica scandinavica, 29: 121—130. 

Griswold, C. E., J. Coddington, N. Platnick, and R. Forster. 1999. Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Opisthothele, Araneomorphae). The Journal of Arachnology, 27: 53—63. 

Griswold, C. E., C.L. Long, and G. Hormiga. 1999. A new spider of the genus Pimoa from Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae, Araneoidea, Pimoidae). Acta Botanica Yunnanica 1999, suppl XI: 91—97, plates I—V. 

Coville, R. E., C.E. Griswold, and P. L. Coville. 2000. Observations on the Nesting Biology and Behavior of Trypoxylon (Trypargilum) vagulum (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Costa Rica. The Pan Pacific Entomologist, 76(1): 28—48. 

Griswold, C. E. 2000 Afromontane spiders in Madagascar (Araneae, Araneomorphae: Cyatholipidae, Phyxelididae, Zorocratidae) pp. 345—354 In: Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 9 W. R. Lourenço and S. M. Goodman (Eds.). Diversity and Endemism in Madagascar. Mémoires de la Société de Biogéographie, Paris. 

Griswold, C. E. 2001. A monograph of the living world genera and Afrotropical species of cyatholipid spiders (Araneae, Orbiculariae, Cyatholipidae). Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences, Number 26: 1—251.

Griswold, C. E., and D. Ubick . 2001 Zoropsidae, a spider family newly introduced to the USA (Araneae, Entelegynae, Lycosoidea). The Journal of Arachnology, 28: 111—113. 

Griswold, C., and J. Ledford. 2001. A monograph of the migid trap-door spiders of Madagascar, with a phylogeny of world genera (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Migidae). Occasional Papers of the California Academy of Sciences. Number 151: 1—120. 

Xu, X., C. M Yin, and C. E. Griswold. 2002. A New Species of the Spider Genus Macrothele from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Hexathelidae), Pan-pacific Entomologist, 78(2): 116—119. 

Griswold, C. E. 2002. A revision of the African spider genus Raecius Simon, 1892 (Araneae, Zorocratidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, vol. 53, no. 10: 117—149.

Yin. C. M., C. E. Griswold and H. M. Yan. 2002. A new Ogre-faced spider (Deinopis) from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Deinopidae). The Journal of Arachnology, 30:610—612. 

Yin, C. M., C. E. Griswold, Y. H. Bao and X. Xu. 2003. Four Species of the Genus Steatoda from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Theridiidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 54 (6): 133—140. 

Griswold, C. E., and H. M. Yan. 2003. On the egg-guarding behavior of a Chinese symphytognathid spider of the genus Patu marples, 1951 (Araneae, Araneoidea, Symphytognathidae). Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 54 (19): 356—360. 

Yin, C. M., C. E. Griswold, Y. H. Bao and X. Xu. 2003. A New Species of the Genus Craspedisia from the Gaoligong Mountains, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Theridiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society, 12(8): 383—384. 

Scharff, N., J. Coddington, L. Sørensen, C. E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, and P. de Place Bjørn. 2003. How much is enough? Estimating spider species richness in a northern European deciduous forest. The Journal of Arachnology 31(2): 246—273. 

Griswold, C. E. 2003. ―Araneae, Spiders‖, pp. 579—587 In S. Goodman and J. Benstead, eds., The Natural History of Madagascar. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1709 p.

Griswold, C. E., M. J. Ramírez, J. Coddington, and N. Platnick. 2005. Atlas of Phylogenetic Data for Entelegyne spiders (Araneae: Araneomorphae: Entelegynae) with comments on their Phylogeny. Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences, 4th Series, vol. 56, Supplement II, pp. 1—324. Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 10.

Tang, G., C. M. Yin, C. E. Griswold and X. J. Peng. 2006. Description of Sinothomisus gen. nov. with a new species from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae). Zootaxa 1366: 61–68. 

Liu, P., H. M. Yan, C. E. Griswold and D. Ubick. 2007. Three new species of the genus Clubiona from China (Araneae: Clubionidae). Zootaxa 1456: 63-68. 

Ramírez, M.J., J.A. Coddington, W.P. Maddison, P.E. Midford, L. Prendini, J. Miller, C.E. Griswold, G. Hormiga, P. Sierwald, N. Scharff, S.P. Benjamin, & W.C. Wheeler. 2007. Linking of digital images to phylogenetic data matrices using a morphological ontology. Systematic Biology. 56(2):283—294. 

Tang, G., C. M. Yin, X. J. Peng, D. Ubick and C. E. Griswold. 2007. Five crab spiders of the Genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 1480: 57-68.

Yin, C. M., C. E. Griswold & X. Xu. 2007. One new species and two new males of the family Araneidae from China (Arachnida: Araneae). Acta arachnol. sin. 16: 1-6.

Wood, H. M., C. E. Griswold, and G. Spicer. 2007. Phylogenetic relationships within an endemic group of Malagasy 'assassin spiders' (Araneae, Archaeidae): ancestor reconstruction, convergent evolution and biogeography. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 45: 612—619. 

Tang, G., X. J. Peng, C. E. Griswold, D. Ubick and C. M. Yin. 2008. Four crab spiders of the family Thomisidae (Araneae, Thomisidae) from Yunnan, China. Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica. 33 (2): 241—247.

Tang, G., C. M. Yin, X. J. Peng, D. Ubick and C. E. Griswold. 2008. The crab spiders of the Genus Lysiteles from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Thomisidae). Zootaxa 1742: 1--41. 

Wang, Q. B., C. M. Yin, C. Griswold and X. J. Peng. 2009. Three new species of the genus Mallinela (Zodariidae: Araneae) from Yunnan Province, China. Zootaxa 2005: 47–56. 

Tang, G., C. M. Yin, X. J. Peng and C. Griswold. 2009. Six crab spiders of the subfamily Stephanopinae from Southeast Asia (Araneae: Thomisidae). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 57(1): 39—50. 

Miller JA, Griswold CE, Yin CM (2009a) The symphytognathoid spiders of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China (Araneae: Araneoidea): Systematics and diversity of micro-orbweavers. ZooKeys 11: 9-195. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.160. 

Miller JA, Griswold CE, Yin CM (2009b) Appendix C. Locality data (KML format) for all specimens of the spider families Theridiosomatidae, Mysmenidae, Anapidae, and Symphytognathidae collected during an inventory of the Gaoligongshan, Yunnan, China, 1998-2007. DATASET. File format: KML (Keyhole Markup Language) version 2.1 for GoogleEarth. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.160-app.C.dt. ZooKeys 11: 9-195. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.160

Penev L, Erwin T, Miller J, Chavan V, Moritz T, Griswold C (2009) Publication and dissemination of datasets in taxonomy: ZooKeys working example. ZooKeys 11: 1-8. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.11.210 Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 11

Tang, G., C. M. Yin, X. J. Peng. and C. E. Griswold. In press. Description of a new crab spider genus Macroapophysis (Araneae, Thomisidae) from South China. Zootaxa.

Peng, H., C. Griswold, C. M. Yin and X. J. Peng. In press. Two new spider species of the genus Thymoites from Yunnan Province, China (Araneae: Theridiidae). Zootaxa.

Miller, J., C. Griswold and C. Haddad. (in review) Taxonomic Revision of the Spider Family Penestomidae (Araneae, Entelegynae). For Zootaxa.

Almeida-Silva, L., A. Brescovit and C. Griswold. (in review) On the poorly known genus Anuvinda Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Titanoecidae). For Zootaxa.

Miller, J., A. Carmichael, Martín Ramírez, C. Haddad, M. Řezáč, J. Johannesen, J. Král, X. P. Wang , J. Spagna and C. Griswold,. (in review) Phylogenetic Affinities of the Enigmatic Spider Family Penestomidae (NEW RANK; Araneae, Araneoidea, Entelegynae), phylogeny of the Eresidae, and Other Advances in Spider Phylogeny. For Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.

Wang, X. P., C. Griswold and D. Ubick. (in review). On the pseudoterrestris species group of the spider genus Coelotes (Araneae, Amaurobiidae). for Zootaxa.

Labarque, F., C. Grismado, M. Ramírez, H. M. Yan and C. Griswold. (in review). The Southeast Asian genus Stedocys Ono, 1995 (Araneae: Scytodidae): first descriptions of female genitalia and a new species from China. For Zootaxa. IN PREPARATION

Wood, H., C. Griswold, and A. Carmichael. (in preparation). Molecular phylogeny reveals a single origin for Madagascar‘s endemic lace web spiders (Araneae, Phyxelididae). For Journal of Biogeography.

Ledford, J., and C. Griswold. (in preparation). A redescription of Archoleptoneta schusteri Gertsch (Araneae, Leptonetidae), with a review of the morphology and relationships of the Leptonetidae. For Zootaxa.

Griswold, C. and H. Wood. (in preparation). A monograph and phylogenetic analysis of the lace web spiders (Araneae, Phyxelididae) of Madagascar. For The Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.

Almeida-Silva, L., A. Brescovit and C. Griswold. (in preparation) On the Asian spider genus Pandava Lehtinen, 1967 (Araneae, Titanoecidae). For Zootaxa. Griswold, curriculum vitae, pg. 12

Alvarez-Padilla, F, and C. Griswold. (in preparation) A revision of the goblin spider genus Silhouettella Benoit, 1979 from Madagascar (Araneae, Oonopidae). For Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History.