Spider fauna (Araneae) of the Sieraków Landscape Park (Central Poland) – preliminary data

,Maria Oleszczuk

doi:10.3161/00159301ff2017.60.1.053

Abstract

The paper presents preliminary data on araneofauna of the selected habitats in the Sieraków Landscape Park, where spiders have not yet been studied. The fauna was sampled by sweep net and pitfall trap methods in crop fields, forest and in the ecotone zones: forest/crop field and forest/lake. It was found 44 spider species and four genera represented by young specimens, i.e. Metellina sp., Neriene sp., Haplodrassus sp. and Xysticus sp. The largest number of taxa (24) was found in the forest/lake ecotone, and the smallest one (10) in the crop field, 200 m distant from the forest. The recorded spiders belong to the common species, but they were characteristic for their biotopes.

Highlights

The spiders of the protected areas in the Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) are poorly investigated
There is a lack of data about the araneofauna of the Sieraków Landscape Park (SLP)
A vast pine monoculture grows on the dunes in the northern part, while beech and mixed forests prevail in the south (Łęcki 1996)

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Introduction

The spiders of the protected areas in the Greater Poland (Wielkopolska) are poorly investigated. There are some studies concerning spider fauna of the Wielkopolski National Park (Dziabaszewska 1961, Dziabaszewski 1961, 1976). Araneofauna was studied in three of the region's landscape parks: the Lednicki LP (Rozwałka et al 2014), the Rogaliński LP (which was a part of the Wielkopolski National Park) (Dziabaszewski 1973, 1975, 1992, Szymkowiak 1992) and the Dezydery Chłapowski LP. The Sieraków Landscape Park (SLP) was set up in 1991 and is situated in Międzychód County in the western part of Wielkopolska Voivodeship. It covers an area of 30,143 ha on the boundary of the Gorzów Basin and the Poznań Lake District. There are papers on Coleoptera (Przewoźny 2011), Hymenoptera (Karg et al 2011, Wendzonka 2011), Acari

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