Caucasian Spiders

A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus

June 19, 2009

1. International Field Trip in Turkey (27th May - 14th June 2009)

by @ 5:47 pm. Filed under Database

Kadir Bogaç Kunt, Altuɠ Kiziltuɠ and Yuri Marusik went on a field trip throughout Turkey, collecting spiders in Marmara Region, Aegean Region, Mediterranean Region, Black Sea Region and in the Central Anatolian Region. Between 11th and 14th I joined them, coming from my study areas in western Georgia, taking part in the excursion in the Eastern Black Sea Region around Artvin during the last three days of this field trip.

The participants spent the days either travelling to remote habitats of spiders and other Arachnids or collecting specimens in interesting places. Collecting was accompanied by valuable exchange of knowledge concerning the most prospective collecting methods. In the evenings, such discussions were sometimes extended to thorough evaluation of the latest preservation fluids from Turkey and Georgia.

As the main result, the participants of the 1. IFTT enriched their collections by several hundreds of new specimens, which will most probably lead to new insights into the Turkish arachnofauna in the near future. Some new family records for Turkey are already certain …

Furthermore, I am sure, the cooperation between the participants will be more intense in the future, e. g. in joint taxonomical studies, field trips or during the suggested 1. Black Sea Arachnological Meeting in Trabzon 2010. Also, I might extend my study of spider communities in Colchic forests from Georgia to Turkey.

April 22, 2009

New literature

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Logunov, D. V.; Guseinov, E. F. (2008): A faunistic review of the spider family Philodromidae (Aranei) of Azerbaijan. Arthropoda Selecta 17 (1-2): 117-131. (full-text PDF).

April 3, 2009

by @ 3:41 pm. Filed under Database

I just received a message from Yuri Marusik concerning a database entry: 

>I found that Paracoelotes spasskyi is missing from Azerbaijan in your catalogue, while it
> is present in Mikhailov’s. This species was at least reported by Dunin  (1989).

>Yrs, Yura

I will change this in the database as soon as possible but it might take a couple of months because of larger work on the database.

March 17, 2009

Articles from Arthropoda Selecta

by @ 9:31 am. Filed under Database

Dmitri Logunov just pointed out to me, that all articles published in Arthropoda Selecta are available as PDF downloads via the British Arachnological Society (tab ‘Hosted Sites’).

February 11, 2009

New article

by @ 3:20 pm. Filed under Database

I uploaded a new article on two new Drassodes species from Dagestan: Drassodes archibensis Ponomarev & Alieva, 2008 and D. dagestanus Ponomarev & Alieva, 2008.

Ponomarev, A. V. & Alieva, S. V. (2008): New species of spiders of the genus Drassodes Westring, 1851 (Aranei: Gnaphosidae) of Dagestan. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 4 (3): 255-257

January 19, 2009

New article

by @ 4:19 pm. Filed under Database

There is a new article by Mykola Kovblyuk on the genus Micaria in the Crimea. It includes references to material from Azerbaijan.

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Nadolny, A. A. (2007): The spider genus Micaria Westring, 1851 in the Crimea (Aranei: Gnaphosidae). Arthropoda Selecta. 16 (4): 215-236 

December 10, 2008

New article

by @ 10:07 pm. Filed under Database

I scanned and uploaded an old article by Eugene Simon:

Simon, E. (1899): Araneae caucasicae. Museum Caucasicum 1, 477-478. [full-text PDF]

October 8, 2008

Svaneti Spider

by @ 7:55 pm. Filed under Database

Araneus quadratusServane Laine found a beautiful female of Araneus quadratus in Svaneti (near Mestia) in September, 2008 - and took a picture of it.

Here it is …

September 25, 2008

New article

by @ 1:25 pm. Filed under Database

A new article on West-Caucasian spiders appeared. The pdf is available in the download section and here:

Kovblyuk, M. M. & Ponomarev, A. V. (2008): New and interesting spiders (Aranei: Agelenidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Nemesiidae, Thomisidae) from the West Caucasus. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin. 4 (2): 143-154 [full-text PDF]

August 4, 2008

Tamara Mkheidze

by @ 7:36 pm. Filed under Database

Last year, the Georgian arachnologist Tamara Mkheidze died in Tbilisi at the age of 91. In remembrance of her, obituaries have been written in the past months. Here are the citations and a pdf of the German obituary:

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