New data on spiders (Aranei) from the Novaya Zemlya Archipelago and Siberian Arctic, Russia

Abstract

of the Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University Moscow, Russia (ZMMU), as well as several earlier unaccounted samples collected from the Siberian Arctic by Yuri I. Chernov and Anatoly B. Babenko (Moscow, Russia). A small material from the Novaya Zemlya was taken by Valery I. Bulavintsev (Moscow, Russia) from two localities of the Archipelago: from the Bezymyannaya Bay (72.895°N 53.197°E), Southern Island, in 1992, and from the Krestovaya Bay (ca 74.294°N 55.482°E), Northern Island in 1993. Only three spider species have hitherto been recorded from the Bezymyannaya Bay [see Tanasevitch, 2017b], none from the Krestovaya Bay. The present paper provides new data on the spiders from the Novaya Zemlya and Siberian tundras.

On the spider fauna (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Kanin Peninsula and Kolguev Island, Nenets Autonomous Okrug, Russia

“…To assess a degree of faunal similarity between different regions of north-eastern Europe, literaturederived data on local spider faunas has been used [Koponen, 1984, with changes;Mazura, 2000, with changes;Tanasevitch, Koponen, 2007;Tanasevitch, Nekhaeva, 2014;Marusik et al, 2016;Tanasevitch, 2017a,b;2018;Tanasevitch, Khruleva, 2017, with additions;Nekhaeva, 2018a]. A faunistic similarity between local faunas was estimated by using the Kulczyński index for qualitative data in PAST 3.25 [Hammer et al, 2001].…”

Spiders (Aranei) of Wrangel Island, Russia. 1. New data on the species composition and distribution

“…On the most other islands the species richness varies from 8 to 22 species. The latter include islands so different in location and Pleistocene history as Svalbard [Coulson et al, 2014], Novaya Zemlya and Vaygach [Tanasevitch, 2017[Tanasevitch, , 2018, Shokalsky [Nekhaeva, 2018], Sibiryakova [Tanasevitch et al, 2020], Banks [Loboda, Buddle, 2018], Ellesmere [Leach, 1966], Devon [Leech, Ryan, 1972]; Southampton [Pickavance, 2006]. Only the spider fauna of Wrangel Is.…”