Indian Journal of Entomology

Open Access Open Access  Restricted Access Subscription Access

New Records of Araneae from Armenia


Affiliations
1 Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydro-Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, P. Sevak str. 7, Yerevan, Armenia
 

This study reports new records of spiders under few families from Armenia. These add to the checklist of the families Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887; Eresidae C L Koch, 1845; Gnaphosidae Pocock, 1898; and Pholcidae C L Koch, 1850. The results include twelve species of which six are new records from Armenia, and include Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846; Pholcus alticeps Spassky, 1932; Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763); Cheiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer, 1802); Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802); and Aphantaulax cincta (L. Koch, 1866). Notes on the habitat and distributions are given.

Keywords

Araneae, Arachnida, Armenia, Caucasus, fauna, Cheiracanthiidae, Eresidae, Gnaphosidae, Pholcidae, Eresus kollari, Pholcus alticeps, Holocnemus pluchei, Cheiracanthium erraticum, Drassodes lapidosus, Aphantaulax cincta
User
Notifications
Font Size

  • Jones-Walters L M. 1989. Keys to the families of British spiders, AID-GAP Shrewsbury Field Studies Council. 78 pp.

  • Kulczyński L. 1895. Araneae a Dre G. Horvath in Bessarabia, Chersoneso Taurico, Transcaucasia et Armenia Russica collectae. Természtrajzi Füzetek. 18: 3-38.

  • Mikhailov K G 1988. Contribution to the spider fauna of the genus Micaria Westring, 1851 of the USSR. I (Aranei, Gnaphosidae). Spixiana. 10: 319-334

  • Mikhailov K G. 1997. Catalogue of the spiders of the of the territories of the former Soviet Union (Arachnida, Aranei). Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. 416 pp.

  • Mikhailov K G. 2000. Catalogue of the spiders of the of the territories of the former Soviet Union (Arachnida, Aranei), Addendum 3. Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University. 33 pp.

  • Nentwig W, Blick T, Bosmans R, Gloor D, Hänggi A, Kropf C. 2020. Spiders of Europe. Version. 08.2020. https://www.araneae.nmbe.ch

  • Otto S. 2022. Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus. Version 02.2022. https://caucasus-spiders.info/

  • Ovtsharenko V I. 1982. Systematic list of spiders of the family Gnaphosidae (Aranei) of the European part of the USSR and the Caucasus. Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie. 61: 830-844

  • Ovtsharenko V I, Platnick N, Song D X. 1992. A review of the North Asian ground spiders of the genus Gnaphosa (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 212: 1-88.

  • Ovtsharenko V I, Levy G, Platnick N I. 1994. A review of the ground spider genus Synaphosus (Araneae, Gnaphosidae). American Museum Novitates. 3095: 1-27

  • Wershbitsky S. 1902. O paukach Kavkaskovo kraja (De Araneis regionis Caucasicae) Zapiski Kiewskogo obshchestva Estestvoznaniya. 17 (2): 461-504 (in Russian).

  • World Spider Catalog. 2022. World spider catalog. Version {version number}. Natural History Museum Bern. http://wsc.nmbe.ch. doi: 10.24436/2

  • Zarikian N, Kalashian M. 2021. An annotated checklist of spiders deposited in the Arachnida collection of the Institute of Zoology, Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydroecology of the NAS RA, Yerevan, Armenia. Part I. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61(1): 11-19.


Abstract Views: 120

PDF Views: 65




  • New Records of Araneae from Armenia

Abstract Views: 120  |  PDF Views: 65

Authors

Zarikian A N
Scientific Center of Zoology and Hydro-Ecology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, P. Sevak str. 7, Yerevan, Armenia

Abstract


This study reports new records of spiders under few families from Armenia. These add to the checklist of the families Cheiracanthiidae Wagner, 1887; Eresidae C L Koch, 1845; Gnaphosidae Pocock, 1898; and Pholcidae C L Koch, 1850. The results include twelve species of which six are new records from Armenia, and include Eresus kollari Rossi, 1846; Pholcus alticeps Spassky, 1932; Holocnemus pluchei (Scopoli, 1763); Cheiracanthium erraticum (Walckenaer, 1802); Drassodes lapidosus (Walckenaer, 1802); and Aphantaulax cincta (L. Koch, 1866). Notes on the habitat and distributions are given.

Keywords


Araneae, Arachnida, Armenia, Caucasus, fauna, Cheiracanthiidae, Eresidae, Gnaphosidae, Pholcidae, Eresus kollari, Pholcus alticeps, Holocnemus pluchei, Cheiracanthium erraticum, Drassodes lapidosus, Aphantaulax cincta

References





DOI: https://doi.org/10.55446/IJE.2022.688