Additional notes on the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae)

Authors: KADİR BUĞAÇ KUNT, RAHŞEN SALTANAT KAYA, RECEP SULHİ ÖZKÜTÜK, TARIK DANIŞMAN, ERSEN AYDIN YAĞMUR, MERT ELVERİCİ

Abstract: This paper presents the results of recent field surveys and provides new data on the spider fauna of Turkey. The following 9 taxa are new records for Turkey: Larinia chloris (Audouin, 1826); Macrothele sp.; Arctosa tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1946; Pisaura consocia (O. P.-Cambridge, 1872); Prodidomus redikorzevi Spassky, 1940; Macaroeris flavicomis (Simon, 1884); Scytodes velutina Heineken & Lowe, 1832; Achaeridion conigerum (Simon, 1914); and Phoroncidia paradoxa (Lucas, 1846). New locality data are provided for the following previously but rarely recorded species: Spermophora senoculata (Dugès, 1836); Ariadna insidiatrix Audouin, 1826; and Segestria senoculata (Linnaeus, 1758). Taxonomic, zoogeographical, and ecological data are given for each species.

Keywords: Araneae, new record, spider, Turkey

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