The Spider Fauna of Gyeongju National Park, Korea

Namkung, Joon; Choi, Yong-Gun; Shin, Hee-Kwan; Yoo, Sea-Hee

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“…One of these is the late Dr. Paik Kap Yong (19141996), who studied araneology with Japanese scholars from 1936 onwards. He was the first Korean araneologist to report the presence of Ere sus niger (current status = Eresus kollari) of the Eresidae and Calommata signata of the Atypidae in Daegu Pro Both these araneologists, as well as several lesser known araneologists discovered many new species, and provide descriptions of previously unrecorded species of the Korean spider fauna (see synonyms of each species and associated literature) with taxonomic accounts, in cluding the results of faunistic studies in various agricul tural and natural sites, such as rice, mulberry, and gin seng fields, mountains, islands, and caves (Paik, 1962;1970b;1976b;1979d;1995d;Namkung, Paik and Yoon, 1971;Namkung, Paik and Yoon, 1972;Paik and Namkung, 1979;Namkung and Yoon, 1980;Jo, 1981;Paik and Yoon, 1981;Seo and Sohn, 1984;Namkung, 1985;Kim et al, 1988;Namkung, Paik and Kang, 1988;Namkung, Paik and Lee, 1988;Kim, 1997b;Kim, Jeong and Lee, 2007;Kim, Ki and Park, 2008;Kim, Shin and Park 2008; faunistic literatures without taxonomic ac counts not cited).…”

Section: A Brief History Of Korean Araneologymentioning

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Bibliographic checklist of Korean spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) ver. 2015

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Journal of Species Research

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Biodiversity encompasses variety of all life, including genes, species, communities, and ecosystems (Gaston, 1996). Understanding the biodiversity and distribution of species is an important part of many preservation and conservation programs. Fauna lists are inventories that generally have two main objectives: to aid the establish ment of biodiversity on various scales and to serve as raw material or distributional information for research fields, such as taxonomy, ecology, and physiology. Fau na lists that have a key function in many fields can be composed for various ecosystems at national or regional scales.Spiders are a ubiquitous and important predator group with high richness and abundance among invertebrates; they occur in many natural, as well as in agricultural ecosystems (Howell and Pienkowski, 1971;Nyffeler and Benz, 1987). Spiders are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in the total species diversity among all other groups of organisms (Sebastin and Peter, 2009), with 44,906 recorded species of 3,935 genera belonging to 114 families, as of June 2014 (Platnick, 2014). Spi ders, which have a distinct ecological niche, play sever al important roles in ecosystems: 1) as a component of biodiversity, 2) by contributing to material circulation and energy transfer through preying on many animals in higher trophic levels in the food web, 3) as a natural enemy that feed on many agricultural and forest insect pests, 4) as indicator species detecting environmental changes, such as global warming and environmental pol lution, and 5) providing physiologically active substan ces, such as poison and spider thread, which has used in many research fields.To date, the list of Korean spiders has been revised 24 times from 1956 to 2015 (Paik and Kim, 1956;

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