Faunal Diversity of Jumping Spiders (Salticidae: Araneae: Arachnida) in India

Diversity and Distribution of Crab Spiders (Thomisidae: Araneomorphae: Araneae:arachnida) in India

“…They not only devour lots of prey, mostly insects, but also serve as a food source for many carnivore animals (Nyffeler & Birkhofer, 2017) and are very important component of the ecosystem. Their biodiversity ranks seventh in global diversity (49,483 species, 4,217 genera, 129 families, WSC, 2021) after Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Hymenoptera, Diptera, Hemiptera and Acari (Singh et al, 2021). Except for few species, most of the spiders are not harmful to human beings; still, public opinion is not to their favour.…”

“…Despite recent researches on the faunistic biodiversity surveys of Indian spiders, their number is meagre and only 1867 species belonging to 475 genera are listed by Caleb & Sankaran (2021) despite having very rich biodiversity and a tropical climate with biodiversity hotspots. Recently, the species distribution and checklist of 65 families of spiders have been updated in India (Akhilesh Sharma et al, 2020;Sharma et al, 2020;Singh et al, 2021;Rajendra Singh et al, 2020;Singh et al, 2020aSingh et al, , 2020b . Singh et al, 2021;Tiwari et al, 2021;Tiwari & Singh, 2021;Tiwari et al, 2021).…”

“…Recently, the species distribution and checklist of 65 families of spiders have been updated in India (Akhilesh Sharma et al, 2020;Sharma et al, 2020;Singh et al, 2021;Rajendra Singh et al, 2020;Singh et al, 2020aSingh et al, , 2020b . Singh et al, 2021;Tiwari et al, 2021;Tiwari & Singh, 2021;Tiwari et al, 2021).…”