Table 2.

Top 10 most accessed press releases of ZooKeys articles posted through EurekAlert! (from the EurekAlert! counter) for the period 1 December 2011 – 10 December 2012. The counter registers only the downloads from EurekAlert! mostly by science media and journalists. The actual number of readers may actually be a much higher than this number.

Title	Author/s and year of publication of the original article	Date posted	Page views since posted
Megalara garuda: the King of Wasps: A new, giant wasp comes from Indonesia	Kimsey and Ohl 2012	23-Mar-2012	44,669
World’s smallest frogs discovered in New Guinea	Kraus 2011	12-Dec-2011	44,247
Spider version of Bigfoot emerges from caves in the Pacific Northwest	Griswold et al. 2012	17-Aug-2012	16,361
The Auburn Tiger trapdoor spider -- a new species discovered from a college town backyard	Bond et al. 2012	8-May-2012	5,012
Millipede border control better than ours	Mesibov 2011	23-Dec-2011	4,592
9 colorful and endangered tree-dwelling tarantulas discovered in Brazil	Bertani 2012	30-Oct-2012	4,252
DNA barcoding verified the discovery of a highly disconnected crane fly species	Pilipenko et al. 2012	18-May-2012	4,205
Scorpio rising: An elusive new scorpion species from California lives underground	Webber et al. 2012	23-Mar-2012	3,247
Italian vineyards invaded from North America by new species of leafminer	Nieukerken et al. 2012	23-Feb-2012	3,160
A new, beautifully colored lizard discovered in the Peruvian Andes: Named ‘mountain dweller’, it is the highest-altitude living member of its genus	Chávez and Vásquez 2012	17-Feb-2012	3,093