<b>Spiders of Gujarat: a preliminary checklist</b>

Abstract

This is a very first attempt to compile a checklist of spiders from Gujarat. It is a result of primary data as well as based on published literature. The spider diversity of Gujarat consists of 415 species under 169 genera and 40 families. Out of these, 29 genera and 17 families are endemic to Gujarat. Overall, high spider diversity was recorded from zone III with 33 families, 132 genera and 278 species. Whereas, the zone with the least spider records was zone VI with only 16 families, 39 genera and 70 species. This is an under estimated number and many new records as well as new species are expected as a result of more systematic studies on spiders in this region.

Faunal diversity of orb-weaver spiders (Araneidae: Araneomorphae: Araneae: Arachnida) in India

“… Assam (Pandit, 2019)  Bihar (Priyadarshini et al, 2015(Priyadarshini et al, , 2018  Jammu and Kashmir (Punjoo and Bhat, 2015)  Karnataka (Tabasum et al, 2018)  Kerala (Malamel and Sudhikumar, 2020)  Maharashtra (Deshmukh and Tekade, 2019)  Tamil Nadu (Kapoor, 2008)  Uttar Pradesh (Yadav and Prakash, 2021) Elsewhere: Caucasus, Central Asia, China, Europe, Iran, Japan, Middle East, North America, Russia (Tikader and Bal, 1981) Syn. Neoscona elliptica Tikader and Bal, 1981  Assam (Saha et al, 2015)  Gujarat (Parmar, 2018;Yadav et al, 2017)  Jammu and Kashmir (Sharma, 2014;Punjoo and Bhat, 2015)  Kerala (Sebastian et al, 2005a;Sudhikumar et al, 2005b;Mathew et al, 2014;Dhali et al, 2019;Malamel and Sudhikumar, 2020)  Madhya Pradesh (Gajbe, 2003a(Gajbe, , b, 2004aPatil, 2012)  Maharashtra (Tikader and Bal, 1981;Tikader and Biswas, 1981;Tikader, 1982;Bastawade and Khandal, 2006;Rithe, 2012;More and Sawant, 2013;Shirbhate and Shirbhate, 2017)  Meghalaya (Biswas and Majumder, 1995;Majumder, 2005)  Mizoram (Chowdhury et al, 2017)  Odisha (Panda et al, 2011)  Punjab (Singh S et al, 2020)  Tamil Nadu (Saha et al, 2017)  Uttar Pradesh <...>…”

“…Neoscona elliptica Tikader and Bal, 1981  Assam (Saha et al, 2015)  Gujarat (Parmar, 2018;Yadav et al, 2017)  Jammu and Kashmir (Sharma, 2014;Punjoo and Bhat, 2015)  Kerala (Sebastian et al, 2005a;Sudhikumar et al, 2005b;Mathew et al, 2014;Dhali et al, 2019;Malamel and Sudhikumar, 2020)  Madhya Pradesh (Gajbe, 2003a(Gajbe, , b, 2004aPatil, 2012)  Maharashtra (Tikader and Bal, 1981;Tikader and Biswas, 1981;Tikader, 1982;Bastawade and Khandal, 2006;Rithe, 2012;More and Sawant, 2013;Shirbhate and Shirbhate, 2017)  Meghalaya (Biswas and Majumder, 1995;Majumder, 2005)  Mizoram (Chowdhury et al, 2017)  Odisha (Panda et al, 2011)  Punjab (Singh S et al, 2020)  Tamil Nadu (Saha et al, 2017)  Uttar Pradesh (Singh and Singh, 2014;Sharma and Singh, 2018a, b)  Uttarakhand (Uniyal et al, 2011;Quasin and Uniyal, 2013)  West Bengal (Majumder, 2004(Majumder, , 2005Talukdar and Majumder, 2008;Saha et al, 2017;Chandra et al, 2021) Elsewhere: Bangladesh, China, Laos (Roewer, 1942) Syn. Araneus fulvus Dyal, 1935 ...…”

“…Syn. Araneus cucurbitinus Clerck, 1757  Jammu and Kashmir (Pickard-Cambridge, 1885;Caporiacco, 1935;Khan, 2009;Punjoo and Bhat, 2015)  Maharashtra (Meshram, 2011;Vairale and Wagh, 2021)  Meghalaya (Tikader and Biswas, 1981;Tikader, 1982;Biswas and Majumder, 1995;  Odisha  Uttarakhand (Rajpoot et al, 2017) Elsewhere: Central Asia, China, Europe, Korea, Russia, Turkey (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Majumder and Talukdar, 2013)  Andhra Pradesh (Srinivasulu et al, 2004a;Rao et al, 2005;Palem et al, 2016)  Assam (Chetia and Kalita, 2012;Singh et al, 2012;Gupta et al, 2015;Saha et al, 2015;Ahmed, 2018)  Bihar (Priyadarshini et al, 2015)  Chhattisgarh (Gajbe and Sharma, 1994;Gajbe, 2003bGajbe, , 2004aKujur and Ekka, 2016;Ekka and Kujur, 2015)  Goa (Bastawade and Borkar, 2008;Halarnkar and Pai, 2018;Pandit and Dharwadkar, 2020)  Gujarat (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Patel, 2003b;Siliwal et al, 2003a, b;Yadav et al, 2017;Yadav and Kumar, 2019)  Jammu and Kashmir (Chandra et al, 2021)  Karnataka (Nalini…”

“…Syn. Argiope arcuata Simon, 1884  Andhra Pradesh (Srinivasulu et al, 2004b;Rao et al, 2005Rao et al, , 2006  Bihar (Majumder, 2005)  Gujarat (Yadav et al, 2017)  Jharkhand (Tikader, 1982)  Karnataka (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Majumder, 2005)  Madhya Pradesh (Tikader, 1982;Majumder, 2005)  Maharashtra (Pocock, 1900;Tikader, 1982;Majumder, 2005;More and Sawant, 2013)  Puducherry (Leardi in Airaghi, 1902)  Rajasthan (Tikader, 1966a(Tikader, , 1982Jangid et al, 2019)  Tamil Nadu (Tikader, 1982;Sivaperuman and Thiyakesan, 1999;Majumder, 2005;Karthikeyani et al, 2017;Caleb and Karthikeyani, 2020)  West Bengal (Biswas and Biswas, 1992;Majumder, 2004Majumder, , 2005Chandra et al, 2021) Elsewhere: Australia, Central Asia, China, Europe, Myanmar, New Caledonia (Thorell, 1891)…”

Pictorial Checklist of Agrobiont Spiders of Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari, Gujarat, India

“…In numbers, 1686 species of 438 genera belongs to 60 families are recorded from India (Keswani et al, 2012). Total 415 species belong to 169 genera of 40 families are recorded from Gujarat state (Yadav et al, 2017). Spiders are considered to be of economic value to farmers as they play valuable role in pest management by consuming large number of prey in the agriculture fields without any damage to crops.…”