Biodiversity of spiders: On some taxa new to Serbia and to science

B.P.M Curcic,V.T Tomic,C.C Deltshev,S.B Curcic

doi:10.2298/abs0702001c

Abstract

fauna of Serbia is represented by 618 species, belonging to 221 genera and 36 families. The number of species is relatively high compared to the number of spiders recorded from other countries of the Balkan Peninsula where, the greatest number of species is recorded from Bulgaria (910), followed by Greece (810), BIODIVERSITY OF SPIDERS: ON SOME TAXA NEW TO SERBIA AND TO SCIENCE. 1B. P. M. Curcic, 2C. C. Deltshev, 1V. T. Tomic and 1S. B. Curcic. 1Institute of Zoology, Faculty of Biology, University of Belgrade, 11000 Belgrade, Serbia; 2Institute of Zoology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria.

Highlights

The goal of the present study is to give a critical systematic revue and zoogeographic analysis of spiders collected from 15 localities in Serbia, based on intensive field research and new data accumulated (Table 1)
All collected spider species are new to the araneofauna of Serbia, and one species is new to science
The total number of spider species presently known from Serbia is 638 while the number of genera is 17, or 8.09 % more

Summary

Introduction

The goal of the present study is to give a critical systematic revue and zoogeographic analysis of spiders collected from 15 localities in Serbia, based on intensive field research and new data accumulated (Table 1). Bolyphantes kolosvaryi (Caporiacco, 1936) Centromerus obenbergeri (Kulczyński, 1891) Formiphantes leptyphantiformis (Kolosváry, 1907) P.-Cambridge, 1900) Tenuiphantes floriana (van Helsdingen, 1977) Trichoncus hackmanni Millidge, 1955 Walckenaeria cucullata L. Koch, 1836) Walckenaeria furcilata (Menge, 1868)

Objectives

Results

Conclusion