The American Arachnological Society (AAS) was founded in 1972 in order to promote the study of arachnids by seeking to achieve closer cooperation and understanding between amateur and professional arachnologists along with publication of the Journal of Arachnology. The society holds annual meetings around the United States and membership is open to all individuals who share the common objectives held by the society.

Journal

The AAS journal (Journal of Arachnology) is the original publication for a number of previously unidentified species including:

• 2010: Trachyzelotes minutus from southern Portugal, Santinezia noctiscansor from Panama, Tarabulida
  Daesiidae
  Daesiidae is a family of solifugids, which are widespread in Africa and the Middle East. Members of the family are also present in India, South America, the Balkans, and the single species Gluvia dorsalis in the Iberian Peninsula. A single fossil species is known from Eocene Baltic amber. Around...
  
   from Kenya (Solifugae: Daesiidae), Hadrobunus
  Hadrobunus
  Hadrobunus is a genus of the harvestman family Sclerosomatidae with two species that occur in North America.-Species:* Hadrobunus grandis * Hadrobunus maculosus...
  
   from the southeastern United States (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Leiobuninae)
• 2007: Drassyllus from West Texas (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)
• 2002: Eremobatidae
  Eremobatidae
  Eremobatidae is a family in the arachnid order Solifugae. It includes 187 species in 7 genera, distributed across Central American and western North America....
  
   from North America (Arachnida, Solifugae)
• 1984: Arctosa
  Arctosa
  Arctosa is a genus of wolf spiders. Most species are found only in the Old world, especially Asia and Africa....
  
   from Guerrero, Mexico (Araneae, Lycosidae)
• 1977: Lygromma
  Lygromma
  Lygromma is a spider genus of Central and South America. There are species with eight, six and no eyes. The eyeless L. anops is endemic to Galapagos, while the not closely related blind L...
  
  (Araneae, Gnaphosidae)