http://caucasus-spiders.info A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Wed, 08 Oct 2008 19:01:07 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Servane Laine found a beautiful female of Araneus quadratus in Svaneti (near Mestia) in September, 2008 - and took a picture of it. Here it is ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/10/08/svaneti-spider/ 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] http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/09/25/new-article/ 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: Marusik Y. M. (in press): Tamara Severyanovna Mkheidze 1915-2007. – Arthropoda Selecta 16 ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/08/04/tamara-mkheidze/ Umit Kebapci just sent me a link to an article and a citation relating to spiders of NE Turkey (click on citation): Bayram, A., Sancak, Z., Danisman, T., & Corak, I. (2007): Spider Fauna of the Argyropiformia Group of the North-East Blacksea Region (Superfamily: Argyropiformia, Araneae). ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/04/01/new-literature-2/ A former Caucasus endemic species is now known from the Crimea, too. Kovblyuk, M. & Nadolny, A. (2007): Harpactea spasskyi (Aranei, Dysderidae) from the Crimea. Vest. Zool. ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/02/14/new-literature/ The first introduction on Caucasian arachnology by Marusik et al. (2005) shed a first light on the more than 140 years old history of Caucasian arachnology, distinguishing four phases of research: (1) beginning research (1866-1938), (2) pre-Dunin (1939-1978), (3) Dunin (1979-1998) and (4) modern (1999-today). Today I provide some more ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/02/10/caucasian-arachnology/ I uploaded an article: Kulczynski, L. (1895): Araneae a Dre G. Horvath in Bessarabia, Chersoneso Taurico, Transcaucasia et Armenia Russica collectae. Termesz. Füzet..   ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/01/27/new-download/ I digitalized L. Koch's (1878) study on Caucasian spiders. Koch, L. (1878): Kaukasische Arachnoideen. in Schneider, O. (ed): Naturwissenschaftliche Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Kaukasusländer auf Grund seiner Sammelausbeute. pp. 9-71. (full-text PDF [5.9 MB]) http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/01/21/new-downloads/ 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 ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/01/20/missing-database-entry/ 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. ... http://caucasus-spiders.info/2008/01/18/new-literature-ii/