A Provisional Checklist and Gazetteer of the Spiders of Chios, Greece (Arachnida: Araneae)

Taxonomic-faunistic notes on the jumping spiders of the Mediterranean (Aranei: Salticidae)

“…Latakia, 13.04.2001, MR. COMMENTS. An eastern Mediterranean species, recorded to date from Greece, Turkey, Cyprus, Israel and Syria Russell-Smith et al, 2011;present data]. New record for Turkey.…”

Spiders from the Ionian islands of Kerkyra (Corfu) and Lefkada, Greece (Arachnida: Aranei)

“…As a result of the work of these and many other authors, the number of spider species recorded from the island stood at 208 as of January 2014 (Appendix 1). This figure is considerably higher than those for the much larger islands of Lesbos (43 species) and Chios (27 species) prior to the publication of the surveys by Bosmans et al [2009] and Russell-Smith et al [2011].…”

“…How does the total numbers of species recorded in Kerkyra and Lefkada compare with such figures from other Greek islands? The recent survey of Lesbos (1632 km 2 ) by Bosmans et al [2009] gave a total of 300 fully identified species while a similar survey of Chios (904 km 2 ) by Russell-Smith et al [2011] gave a figure of 253 species.…”

“…a) The surveys of Lesbos and Chios are certainly incomplete. In particular, the authors of the latter survey [Russell-Smith et al, 2011] included a further 62 taxa, the systematic status of which had yet to be clarified. b) Many arachnologists in the Ionian islands collected for relatively short periods in the year.…”

“…This listed a total of 856 valid species for the country, although that figure has been substantially increased by subsequent work. Since then, provisional checklists have been published for the islands of Lesbos [Bosmans et al, 2009], Chios [Russell-Smith et al, 2011] and Crete [Bosmans et al, 2013]. These checklists apart, there has been little published on the spider faunas of individual regions of Greece.…”