Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Seaside and Island Territories of Northern Dagestan

Abstract

Annotated list of spiders species from the seaside and island territories of Northern Dagestan, based on the original material. At the present time 132 species from 20 families are recordet in this region. There are illustrated descriptions of new species Gnaphosa

New data on spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of East Kazakhstan

“…Females of P. italica (?) found in East Kazakhstan have epigyne clearly different from these from Northern Caucasus illustrated byPonomarev et al [2011: figs 6á,â], but more similar to epigyne of P. jaikensis [cf Ponomarev et al, 2011:. fig.…”

On a small collection of spiders (Aranei) from the Astrakhan Reserve (Russia)

“…Area. Described form Kalmykia [Ponomarev, 1979], and then has been recorded from the shores of Black and Azov Seas, northern Dagestan (Russia) and Azerbaijan [Ponomarev, Tsvetkov, 2004;Mikhailov, 2013;Polchaninova, Prokopenko, 2013;Ponomarev et al, 2011Ponomarev et al, , 2016Ponomarev, 2017]. Due to insufficient knowledge of this species, figures of the epigyne (Figs 10-11) based on the female from the Astrakhan nature reserve has been provided.…”

“…Area. Described from Turkmenia [Wunderlich, 1995], it was recorded from the north-western part of Caspian lowland [Ponomarev et al, 2011].…”

Redescription of Arctosa ravida Ponomarev, 2007 (Aranei: Lycosidae), with the first description of the male

“…In Europe, 23 species (with two subspecies) have been recorded/described to date [Nentwig et al, 2019], of which seven Arctosa species have been found in the Caspian lowland: viz., A. cinerea (Fabricius, 1977), A. leopardus (Sundevall, 1832), A. personata (L. Koch, 1872), A. pseudoleopardus Ponomarev, 2007, A. stigmosa (Thorell, 1875, A. tbilisiensis Mcheidze, 1947and A. ravida Ponomarev, 2007[Ponomarev, 2011aPonomarev, Abdurakhmanov, 2014;Ponomarev et al, 2017]. A. ravida was described from two females from the Volga-Ural sands and the valley of Ural River (Western Kazakhstan) [Ponomarev, 2007].…”

“…A. ravida was described from two females from the Volga-Ural sands and the valley of Ural River (Western Kazakhstan) [Ponomarev, 2007]. Later, this species, including its males, was found in Dagestan (on the islands of Tyuleniy and Chechen') and Mangystau Region of Kazakhstan [Ponomarev et al, 2011a;Ponomarev, Abdurakhmanov, 2014]. However, a formal de-Map.…”