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A new species of Acantholycosa Dahl, 1908 (Aranei: Lycosidae) from the highlands of Sikhote-Alin Mountains, Maritime Territory of Russia

open access: yesActa Biologica Sibirica, 2022
A new species of wolf spider, Acantholycosa voronoii sp. nov., collected among isolated screes in the highlands of Sikhote-Alin Mountains, is diagnosed, illustrated and described based on both sexes. The new species is related to A.
Mikhail M. Omelko, Alexander A. Fomichev
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New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the plain part of Altai Territory, Russia

open access: yesActa Biologica Sibirica, 2022
The paper provides a list of 93 spider species collected from the plain part of Altai Territory; of them, 33 species are recorded for the first time and 12 are newly found in West Siberian Plain. Five species of the latter group are illustrated: Euophrys
Alexander A. Fomichev
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East African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of eight new species (Araneae, Pholcidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
This paper summarizes current knowledge about East African pholcids. East Africa is defined as the area from 12°S to 5°N and from 28° to 42°E, including all of Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Rwanda, and Tanzania.
Huber, Bernhard A., Warui, Charles M.
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West African pholcid spiders: an overview, with descriptions of five new species (Araneae, Pholcidae) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This paper summarizes current knowledge about West African pholcids. West Africa is here defined as the area south of 17°N and west of 5°E, including mainly the Upper Guinean subregion of the Guineo-Congolian center of endemism.
Huber, Bernhard A., Kwapong, Peter
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Urban bats show dietary flexibility in aquatic arthropod consumption at urban and rural waterbodies

open access: yesWildlife Biology, EarlyView.
Urban waterbodies are critical for biodiversity and provide feeding grounds for insectivorous bats. Yet, how urbanisation affects bats' food choices at urban waterbodies and the role of emergent aquatic arthropods remain poorly understood. We compared the diet of three urban bat species – Vespadelus vulturnus, Chalinolobus gouldii,and Myotis macropus –
Tanja M. Straka   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wolf spiders (Araneae: Lycosidae) on the overgrowing peat bog in Dubravica (north-western Croatia) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The peat bog in Dubravica is of spread interest due to its overgrowing by the process of natural succession, causing the habitat to become dryer and shadier. The dominance structure and phenology of wolf spiders on the Dubravica bog was studied.
Erben, Radovan, Štambuk, Anamaria
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Understanding biological control function and trophic interaction dynamics of an artificially released predatory bug by DNA metabarcoding

open access: yesInsect Science, EarlyView.
This study investigated the dietary composition of Sycanus bifidus, a generalist predator of the assassin bug that is artificially released into citrus orchards, and uncovered its trophic structure across various pest species using metabarcoding‐based molecular gut content analysis.
Weidong Huang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listado actualizado de especies de Araneidos y Tomísidos (Araneae, Araneidae y Thomisidae) de la Comunidad de Madrid: mapas de distribución conocida, potencial y patrones de riqueza

open access: yesGraellsia, 2006
Se actualiza el listado de especies de las familias Araneidae y Thomisidae de la Comunidad de Madrid, citando 3 especies nuevas de araneidos y 15 de tomísidos, con lo que el número de especies de la primera familia asciende a 30 y a 43 el de la segunda ...
A. Jiménez-Valverde   +2 more
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A CONTRIBUTION TO THE CHECKLIST OF THE JUMPING SPIDERS (ARANEAE: SALTICIDAE) OF ARMENIA

open access: yesBulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2020
The paper presents an annotated checklist of the Salticidae of Armenia. This study was carried out in 2019-2020 in order to provide an inventory of the Salticidae fauna.
Noushig Zarikian
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Faunistic study of spiders in Khorasan Province, Iran (Arachnida: Araneae) [PDF]

open access: yesIranian Journal of Animal Biosystematics, 2005
The spiders of Iran are still very incompletely known. As a result of the study of spider fauna in different localities of Khorasan Province and other studies which have been done by other workers a total of 26 families, 63 genera and 95 species are ...
O. Mirshamsi
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