First record of Neoscona byzanthina (Pavesi, 1876) (Arachnida Araneae) from Italy

Bolognin, Luca; Moretto, Enzo; Devincenzo, Umberto; Guariento, Luis Alessandro

doi:10.31396/biodiv.jour.2021.12.1.17.19

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“…Italy holds the highest spider diversity in Europe with 53 families, 440 genera and 1700 recorded species, 224 (13%) of which are endemic to the country (Pantini and Isaia 2019). These numbers are constantly growing thank to an effort in describing new taxa (e.g., Weiss and Sarbu 2021, Bosmans and Trotta 2021, Ballarin and Pantini 2022a,b, Isaia et al 2022, to new faunistic records (e.g., Bolognin et al 2021, Caria et al 2021, Dentici and Amata 2021, Dentici et al 2022Steinwandter et al 2022) and to the detection of allochthonous species (e.g., Di Pompeo et al 2011, Kulczycki et al 2012, Nardi et al 2019, Pantini et al 2020. DNA barcoding relies on the analysis of a specific small genomic region (for metazoans usually a fragment of the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit 1) for molecular species identification.…”

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A new trans-Ionian spider species for the Italian fauna: Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920 (Araneae, Salticidae)

Castellucci¹,

Caroli²,

Simeon³

et al. 2022

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The salticid spider Habrocestum graecum Dalmas, 1920, until now only known from Greece, is for the first time recorded in Italy. Observations on ecology and behavior are also reported and pictures of its habitus and genitalia are provided. Furthermore, the first DNA barcode sequence for H. graecum is produced and made publicly available. The species has been observed in Puglia, in South-Eastern Italy, and a trans-Ionian dispersal pattern is most likely the cause of its presence both in Greece and Southern Italy, as reported for other taxa with similar distribution in different animal groups.

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