Abstract
In the Monte Pisano area (Tuscany, central Italy), spiders were collected within two research projects during three years (2010, 2013, 2014). Olive groves and adjacent semi-natural habitats (wood and Mediterranean garrigue) were investigated with three sampling methods (pitfall trapping, beating at branches and hand collection in the canopy). A total of 148 species was identified. The ground spider (Gnaphosidae) Zelotes fulvaster (Simon, 1878) was recorded for the first time in Italy.
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There were 129 species (3228 individuals, 76 species sampled at the ground and 60 from the canopy; Tab. 3) found inside the olive groves, including the new report of Zelotes fulvaster
Hitherto the distribution of this species of the Zelotes tenuis-group was confirmed in the southern part of the Balkans (Greece and Macedonia), in Corsica (France) and, outside Europe, in Iran (Senglet et al 2011). Since this is a new species report for Italy, its known distribution range is extended here to the WestMediterranean part of Southern Europe, consistent with its Mediterranean chorotype. Previous reports of this species come from xeric habitats (Komnenov 2014) and this preference for arid habitats partially matches the microclimate of olive orchards
Summary
BioOne sees sustainable scholarly publishing as an inherently collaborative enterprise connecting authors, nonprofit publishers, academic institutions, research libraries, and research funders in the common goal of maximizing access to critical research. In der Region Monte Pisano (Toskana, Mittelitalien) wurden in drei Jahren (2010, 2013, 2014) Spinnen mit drei Sammelmethoden (Bodenfallen, Klopfen an Ästen und Handaufsammlungen in den Kronen) erfasst. Ragni (Araneae) degli oliveti e degli habitat semi-naturali limitrofi in Italia centrale. Esemplari di ragni sono stati raccolti in oliveti e in habitat semi-naturali a essi adiacenti (bosco e gariga mediterranea) nell’ambito di due progetti di ricerca svolti sul Monte Pisano (Toscana, Italia centrale) negli anni 2010, 2013 e 2014. A country with a mosaic of landscapes, is extremely rich in spider species within the European Union (Nentwig et al 2019). The number of recently described new species shows that the knowledge of Italian spiders is still incomplete, especially in the central and southern part of the peninsula Increasing study of ecological dynamics in agroecosystems could stimulate new sustainable pest control approaches in annual crops, as well as in perennials such as olive groves (Benhadi-Marín et al 2017)
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