A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus
I uploaded an article:
I digitalized L. Koch’s (1878) study on Caucasian spiders.
I just noticed the species Amaurobius fenestralis (Ström, 1768) is not listed in the database although it has been recorded from Azerbaijan (Dunin, 1988, cit. in Mikhailov, 1997). Sorry, my mistake!
This will be fixed when we migrate to the new Ontowiki software tool in april. Up to then I will post all mistakes or missing entries here when I notice them. Please make a comment on this page or write me an email in case you find anything weird in the database so I can put it on my to-do-list for the new database.
A new article from M. Kovblyuk, relating to a species also distributed in the Caucasus, is now available:
Nadolny, A. A. & Kovblyuk, M. M. (2006): Carpathonesticus borutzkyi, the first record of Nesticidae from the Crimea (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta. 15 (4) : 291-294 [full-text PDF]
Yesterday I received a number of reprints from A. Ponomarev. Among them are three articles from 2007 concerning the spider fauna of the Western Caucasus (Caucasian Biospheric Reserve) and the first article ever on spiders of Dagestan. All articles are available as PDF files in the list below or in the download section.
Articles of A. Ponomarev now available as PDF files:
Minoranski, V. A. (1988): Material on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Checheno-Ingusheti [in Russian]. Fauna i ekologia paukobraznykh, Perm. : 34-42 [full-text PDF]
Minoranski, V. A., Ponomarev, A. V., Slusajev, V. V., & Gramotenko, V. P. (1984): On the spider fauna (Aranei) of Checheno-Ingusheti [in Russian]. Isv. Sev.-Kavk. nautsh. zentra vycsch. schk. Estestv. nauki. 4 : 76-80 [full-text PDF]
Ponomarev, A. V. & Khalidov, A. K. (2007): On the spider fauna (Aranei) of Dagestan [in Russian]. Vestnik Yushnovo Nautshnovo Zentra (Russ. Akad. Nauk). 3 (2) : 72-78 [full-text PDF]
Ponomarev, A. V. & Mikhailov, K. G. (2007): Addition to the Fauna of Spiders (Aranei) of the Russian Caucasus (in Russian). Studies of the Southern Scientific Center fo the Russian Academy of Sciences. Issue III: Biodiversity and Transformation of mountain ecosystems of Caucasus (ed. Lebedeva, N. V.) , SSC RAS Publishing, Rostov-on-Don : 130-150 [full-text PDF] [English Abstract]
Ponomarev, A. V. & Chumachenko, Y. A. (2007): Arachnida in Ground Mesofauna of Yew-box Grove of the Caucasian Biospheric Reserve [in Russian]. Studies of the Southern Scientific Center fo the Russian Academy of Sciences. Issue III: Biodiversity and Transformation of mountain ecosystems of Caucasus (ed. Lebedeva, N. V.) , SSC RAS Publishing, Rostov at Don : 151-163 [full-text PDF] [English Abstract]
"... a thorough collecting of Arachnids in Transcaucasia would yield a magnificent prey because, namely in spiders, an astonishing richness in both individuals and species made itself noticeable." L. Koch (1878)