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Molecular Phylogeny, Divergence Times and Biogeography of Spiders of the Subfamily Euophryinae (Araneae: Salticidae) ⇑ Jun-Xia Zhang A, , Wayne P
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 68 (2013) 81–92 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Molec ular Phylo genetics and Evolution journal homepage: www.elsevier.com/locate/ympev Molecular phylogeny, divergence times and biogeography of spiders of the subfamily Euophryinae (Araneae: Salticidae) ⇑ Jun-Xia Zhang a, , Wayne P. Maddison a,b a Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 b Department of Botany and Beaty Biodiversity Museum, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4 article info abstract Article history: We investigate phylogenetic relationships of the jumping spider subfamily Euophryinae, diverse in spe- Received 10 August 2012 cies and genera in both the Old World and New World. DNA sequence data of four gene regions (nuclear: Revised 17 February 2013 28S, Actin 5C; mitochondrial: 16S-ND1, COI) were collected from 263 jumping spider species. The molec- Accepted 13 March 2013 ular phylogeny obtained by Bayesian, likelihood and parsimony methods strongly supports the mono- Available online 28 March 2013 phyly of a Euophryinae re-delimited to include 85 genera. Diolenius and its relatives are shown to be euophryines. Euophryines from different continental regions generally form separate clades on the phy- Keywords: logeny, with few cases of mixture. Known fossils of jumping spiders were used to calibrate a divergence Phylogeny time analysis, which suggests most divergences of euophryines were after the Eocene. Given the diver- Temporal divergence Biogeography gence times, several intercontinental dispersal event sare required to explain the distribution of euophry- Intercontinental dispersal ines. Early transitions of continental distribution between the Old and New World may have been Euophryinae facilitated by the Antarctic land bridge, which euophryines may have been uniquely able to exploit Diolenius because of their apparent cold tolerance. -
Comparative Functional Morphology of Attachment Devices in Arachnida
Comparative functional morphology of attachment devices in Arachnida Vergleichende Funktionsmorphologie der Haftstrukturen bei Spinnentieren (Arthropoda: Arachnida) DISSERTATION zur Erlangung des akademischen Grades doctor rerum naturalium (Dr. rer. nat.) an der Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftlichen Fakultät der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel vorgelegt von Jonas Otto Wolff geboren am 20. September 1986 in Bergen auf Rügen Kiel, den 2. Juni 2015 Erster Gutachter: Prof. Stanislav N. Gorb _ Zweiter Gutachter: Dr. Dirk Brandis _ Tag der mündlichen Prüfung: 17. Juli 2015 _ Zum Druck genehmigt: 17. Juli 2015 _ gez. Prof. Dr. Wolfgang J. Duschl, Dekan Acknowledgements I owe Prof. Stanislav Gorb a great debt of gratitude. He taught me all skills to get a researcher and gave me all freedom to follow my ideas. I am very thankful for the opportunity to work in an active, fruitful and friendly research environment, with an interdisciplinary team and excellent laboratory equipment. I like to express my gratitude to Esther Appel, Joachim Oesert and Dr. Jan Michels for their kind and enthusiastic support on microscopy techniques. I thank Dr. Thomas Kleinteich and Dr. Jana Willkommen for their guidance on the µCt. For the fruitful discussions and numerous information on physical questions I like to thank Dr. Lars Heepe. I thank Dr. Clemens Schaber for his collaboration and great ideas on how to measure the adhesive forces of the tiny glue droplets of harvestmen. I thank Angela Veenendaal and Bettina Sattler for their kind help on administration issues. Especially I thank my students Ingo Grawe, Fabienne Frost, Marina Wirth and André Karstedt for their commitment and input of ideas. -
October 2005
January 2014 CURRICULUM VITAE and LIST OF PUBLICATIONS PERSONAL DETAILS Name: YAEL DEVORA LUBIN Date and Place of Birth: 23 September 1945 Cambridge, MA, USA Date of Immigration: September 1984 Address and Telephone: Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Sede Boqer Campus, Midreshet Ben-Gurion 84990, Israel Tel (work): 08-659-6782, Tel (home): 08-653-2968, Fax: 08-659-6772 Email: [email protected] EDUCATION 1963-1964 Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel B.S. 1965-1967 Columbia University, New York, USA M.S. 1967-1968 Columbia University, New York, USA* Ph.D. 1968-1972 University of Florida, Gainesville, USA** *M.S. Thesis: Communication among termites. Advisor: Dr. F. E. Warburton **Ph.D. Dissertation: Behavioral ecology of tropical tent spiders of the genus Cyrtophora (Araneae, Araneidae), Advisor: Dr. J. H. Kaufmann Special honors and fellowships awarded during studies: Phi Beta Kappa, 1967 Columbia University Graduate Fellowship, 1967 University of Florida Graduate Fellowship, 1968 NDEA Title IV Fellowship, 1969 EMPLOYMENT HISTORY 1 2013 Professor Emeritus 2001-2005 Head, Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology, Jacob Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Sede Boqer Campus, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 2000-2013 Full Professor, as above 1995-2000 Associate Professor, as above 1988-1995 Senior Lecturer, tenured, as above 1986-1988 Adjunct Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (Biology Department) Research Scientist B, Mitrani Center for Desert Ecology, -
Arachnids (Excluding Acarina and Pseudoscorpionida) of the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge, Oklahoma
OCCASIONAL PAPERS THE MUSEUM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY NUMBER 67 5 SEPTEMBER 1980 ARACHNIDS (EXCLUDING ACARINA AND PSEUDOSCORPIONIDA) OF THE WICHITA MOUNTAINS WILDLIFE REFUGE, OKLAHOMA JAMES C. COKENDOLPHER AND FRANK D. BRYCE The Wichita Mountains are located in eastern Greer, southern Kiowa, and northwestern Comanche counties in Oklahoma. Since their formation more than 300 million years ago, these rugged mountains have been fragmented and weathered, until today the highest peak (Mount Pinchot) stands only 756 meters above sea level (Tyler, 1977). The mountains are composed predominantly of granite and gabbro. Forests of oak, elm, and walnut border most waterways, while at elevations from 153 to 427 meters prair ies are the predominant vegetation type. A more detailed sum mary of the climatic and biotic features of the Wichitas has been presented by Blair and Hubbell (1938). A large tract of land in the eastern range of the Wichita Moun tains (now northeastern Comanche County) was set aside as the Wichita National Forest by President McKinley during 1901. In 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt created a game preserve on those lands managed by the Forest Service. Since 1935, this pre serve has been known as the Wichita Mountains Wildlife Refuge. Numerous papers on Oklahoma spiders have been published (Bailey and Chada, 1968; Bailey et al., 1968; Banks et al, 1932; Branson, 1958, 1959, 1966, 1968; Branson and Drew, 1972; Gro- thaus, 1968; Harrel, 1962, 1965; Horner, 1975; Rogers and Horner, 1977), but only a single, comprehensive work (Banks et al., 1932) exists covering all arachnid orders in the state. Further additions and annotations to the arachnid fauna of Oklahoma can be found 2 OCCASIONAL PAPERS MUSEUM TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY in recent revisionary studies. -
Diversity of Simonid Spiders (Araneae: Salticidae: Salticinae) in India
IJBI 2 (2), (DECEMBER 2020) 247-276 International Journal of Biological Innovations Available online: http://ijbi.org.in | http://www.gesa.org.in/journals.php DOI: https://doi.org/10.46505/IJBI.2020.2223 Review Article E-ISSN: 2582-1032 DIVERSITY OF SIMONID SPIDERS (ARANEAE: SALTICIDAE: SALTICINAE) IN INDIA Rajendra Singh1*, Garima Singh2, Bindra Bihari Singh3 1Department of Zoology, Deendayal Upadhyay University of Gorakhpur (U.P.), India 2Department of Zoology, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur (Rajasthan), India 3Department of Agricultural Entomology, Janta Mahavidyalaya, Ajitmal, Auraiya (U.P.), India *Corresponding author: [email protected] Received: 01.09.2020 Accepted: 30.09.2020 Published: 09.10.2020 Abstract: Distribution of spiders belonging to 4 tribes of clade Simonida (Salticinae: Salticidae: Araneae) reported in India is dealt. The tribe Aelurillini (7 genera, 27 species) is represented in 16 states and in 2 union territories, Euophryini (10 genera, 16 species) in 14 states and in 4 union territories, Leptorchestini (2 genera, 3 species) only in 2 union territories, Plexippini (22 genera, 73 species) in all states except Mizoram and in 3 union territories, and Salticini (3 genera, 11 species) in 15 states and in 4 union terrioties. West Bengal harbours maximum number of species, followed by Tamil Nadu and Maharashtra. Out of 129 species of the spiders listed, 70 species (54.3%) are endemic to India. Keywords: Aelurillini, Euophryini, India, Leptorchestini, Plexippini, Salticidae, Simonida. INTRODUCTION Hisponinae, Lyssomaninae, Onomastinae, Spiders are chelicerate arthropods belonging to Salticinae and Spartaeinae. Out of all the order Araneae of class Arachnida. Till to date subfamilies, Salticinae comprises 93.7% of the 48,804 described species under 4,180 genera and species (5818 species, 576 genera, including few 128 families (WSC, 2020). -
Sexual Selection Research on Spiders: Progress and Biases
Biol. Rev. (2005), 80, pp. 363–385. f Cambridge Philosophical Society 363 doi:10.1017/S1464793104006700 Printed in the United Kingdom Sexual selection research on spiders: progress and biases Bernhard A. Huber* Zoological Research Institute and Museum Alexander Koenig, Adenauerallee 160, 53113 Bonn, Germany (Received 7 June 2004; revised 25 November 2004; accepted 29 November 2004) ABSTRACT The renaissance of interest in sexual selection during the last decades has fuelled an extraordinary increase of scientific papers on the subject in spiders. Research has focused both on the process of sexual selection itself, for example on the signals and various modalities involved, and on the patterns, that is the outcome of mate choice and competition depending on certain parameters. Sexual selection has most clearly been demonstrated in cases involving visual and acoustical signals but most spiders are myopic and mute, relying rather on vibrations, chemical and tactile stimuli. This review argues that research has been biased towards modalities that are relatively easily accessible to the human observer. Circumstantial and comparative evidence indicates that sexual selection working via substrate-borne vibrations and tactile as well as chemical stimuli may be common and widespread in spiders. Pattern-oriented research has focused on several phenomena for which spiders offer excellent model objects, like sexual size dimorphism, nuptial feeding, sexual cannibalism, and sperm competition. The accumulating evidence argues for a highly complex set of explanations for seemingly uniform patterns like size dimorphism and sexual cannibalism. Sexual selection appears involved as well as natural selection and mechanisms that are adaptive in other contexts only. Sperm competition has resulted in a plethora of morpho- logical and behavioural adaptations, and simplistic models like those linking reproductive morphology with behaviour and sperm priority patterns in a straightforward way are being replaced by complex models involving an array of parameters. -
A NEW SPECIES of Cyrtarachne,THORELL, 1868
© Indian Society of Arachnology ISSN 2278-1587(Online) A NEW SPECIES OF Cyrtarachne, THORELL, 1868 (ARANEAE: ARANEIDAE: CYRTARACHNINAE) FROM THE SACRED GROVE FORESTS OF CENTRAL WESTERN GHATS, INDIA. 1Javed Ahmed, 2Sumukha J N, 3Rajashree Khalap, 4Krishna Mohan and 5Bhushan Jadhav, 1Panchavati Housing Society, Building No. A/3, Flat No. H/8, Opp. Police Camp, Vijay Nagar, Marol Maroshi Road, Andheri (East) Mumbai 400059 [email protected] 2‘Suvyaktha’, 1st Cross, 1st Stage, Near Maasthambika temple, Malleshwara Nagara, Shivamogga 577201 [email protected] 35 - A, Sagar Sangeet, 58 Shahid Bhagat Singh Marg, Colaba, Mumbai 400005 [email protected] 4Prabhu Hospital. Hospital Cross Road, Moodubidire 574227, India [email protected] 5A-4, Plot No. 82, Aasra CHS, Near Swami Vivekanand school, Gorai - I, Borivali (W), Mumbai 400091 [email protected] ABSTRACT A new species of cryptic cyrtarachnine araneid, Cyrtarachne sunjoymongai sp. nov. is described from the ‘Kans’; sacred grove forests of Shivamogga, Karnataka, India. Key Words: Araneidae, Cyrtarachninae, Cyrtarachne, India, Karnataka, Shivamogga, nouveau taxon, taxonomy, natural history. INTRODUCTION The ‘Kans’ of Shivamogga, Karnataka, are specialized forestlands harboring unique micro- climatic conditions, and consisting of evergreen and semi-evergreen vegetation, surrounded by deciduous forest (Hemanjali et al., 2015). While these ecologically sensitive habitats have been traditionally preserved by genera- tions of village communities as sacred groves, they are -
SANSA News 16 Final.PUB
Newsletter • Newsletter • Newsletter • Newsletter • Newsletter JAN-MAY 2012 SANSA - Newsletter South African National No 16 Survey of Arachnida This publication is available from: Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman [email protected] or at www.arc.agric.za/home.asp?pid=3732 This is the newsletter of the South African National Survey Editors: of Arachnida (SANSA). SANSA is an umbrella project Ansie Dippenaar-Schoeman & Charles Haddad dedicated to unifying and strengthening biodiversity re- search on Arachnida in South Africa, and to make an in- Editorial committee: ventory of our arachnofauna. It runs on a national basis in Petro Marais collaboration with other researchers and institutions with Elsa van Niekerk an interest in the fauna of South Africa. Robin Lyle CONGRATULATIONS To Charles Haddad for obtaining his PhD from the Univer- sity of the Free State. The title of his study was “Advances in the systematics and ecology of the African Corinnidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae), with emphasis on the Casti- aneirinae”. This is a very comprehensive study and deals with two aspects of the Castianeirinae, namely their ecol- ogy as well as their systematics, and it is a very important contribution towards our knowledge of this family of spi- ders, especially in the Afrotropical Region. An illustrated key to all the genera is provided as well as a phylogenetic analysis of the relationships of the Afrotropical Castianeiri- nae. Charles revised the eight genera of the subfamily Castianeirinae known from the Afrotropical Region and described two genera as new to science. He studied 62 species, of which 37 are new species and 20 redescribed for the first time. -
New Faunistic Data on Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the Southern Part of Montenegro
NATURA SLOVENIAE 16(1): 41-51 Prejeto / Received: 25.4.2014 SCIENTIFIC PAPER Sprejeto / Accepted: 23.6.2014 New faunistic data on ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of the southern part of Montenegro Gregor BRAČKO1, Marko GOMBOC2, Blaž LUPŠE3, Renata MARIĆ4, Urška PRISTOVŠEK5 1 University of Ljubljana, Biotechnical Faculty, Department of Biology, Večna pot 111, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia; E-mail: [email protected] 2 Mladinska ulica 29, 9000 Murska Sobota, Slovenia 3 Ježni Vrh 7, 1275 Šmartno pri Litiji, Slovenia 4 Groharjevo naselje 7, 4220 Škofja Loka, Slovenia 5 Šešče pri Preboldu 48b, 3312 Prebold, Slovenia Abstract. In spring 2013, we sampled ants from 14 localities in the southern part of Montenegro. Four different collection methods were applied: direct sampling, litter sifting, pitfall trapping and baiting. We present a list of 62 collected ant species, five of which are new records for the country: Camponotus gestroi, C. honaziensis, Lasius nitidigaster, Temnothorax sp. 1, and T. sp. 2. Some of the recorded species are discussed, including a rare subspecies Crematogaster auberti savinae. A short informal description for two unidentified Temnothorax species is given. Key words: ants, Montenegro, Balkan Peninsula, faunistics Izvleček. Novi favnistični podatki o mravljah (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) južnega dela Črne gore – Spomladi leta 2013 smo vzorčili mravlje na 14 lokalitetah v južnem delu Črne gore. Uporabljene so bile štiri različne metode nabiranja: direktno vzorčenje, sejanje stelje, postavljanje talnih pasti in nastavljanje vab. Predstavljamo seznam 62 nabranih vrst mravelj, od katerih jih je pet novih najdb za državo: Camponotus gestroi, C. honaziensis, Lasius nitidigaster, Temnothorax sp. 1 in T. sp. -
Trees Increase Ant Species Richness and Change Community Composition in Iberian Oak Savannahs
diversity Article Trees Increase Ant Species Richness and Change Community Composition in Iberian Oak Savannahs Álvaro Gaytán 1,* , José L. Bautista 2, Raúl Bonal 2,3 , Gerardo Moreno 2 and Guillermo González-Bornay 2 1 Department of Ecology, Environment and Plant Sciences, Stockholm University, 114-18 Stockholm, Sweden 2 Grupo de investigación Forestal, INDEHESA, University of Extremadura, 10600 Plasencia, Spain; [email protected] (J.L.B.); [email protected] (R.B.); [email protected] (G.M.); [email protected] (G.G.-B.) 3 Department of Biodiversity, Ecology and Evolution, Complutense University of Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain * Correspondence: [email protected] Abstract: Iberian man-made oak savannahs (so called dehesas) are traditional silvopastoral systems with a high natural value. Scattered trees provide shelter and additional food to livestock (cattle in our study sites), which also makes possible for animals depending on trees in a grass-dominated landscape to be present. We compared dehesas with nearby treeless grasslands to assess the effects of oaks on ant communities. Formica subrufa, a species associated with decayed wood, was by far the most abundant species, especially in savannahs. Taxa specialized in warm habitats were the most common both in dehesas and grasslands, as expected in areas with a Mediterranean climate. Within dehesas, the number of species was higher below oak canopies than outside tree cover. Compared to treeless grasslands, the presence of oaks resulted in a higher species richness of aphid-herding and predator ants, probably because trees offer shelter and resources to predators. The presence Citation: Gaytán, Á.; Bautista, J.L.; of oaks changed also the species composition, which differed between grasslands and dehesas. -
SA Spider Checklist
REVIEW ZOOS' PRINT JOURNAL 22(2): 2551-2597 CHECKLIST OF SPIDERS (ARACHNIDA: ARANEAE) OF SOUTH ASIA INCLUDING THE 2006 UPDATE OF INDIAN SPIDER CHECKLIST Manju Siliwal 1 and Sanjay Molur 2,3 1,2 Wildlife Information & Liaison Development (WILD) Society, 3 Zoo Outreach Organisation (ZOO) 29-1, Bharathi Colony, Peelamedu, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu 641004, India Email: 1 [email protected]; 3 [email protected] ABSTRACT Thesaurus, (Vol. 1) in 1734 (Smith, 2001). Most of the spiders After one year since publication of the Indian Checklist, this is described during the British period from South Asia were by an attempt to provide a comprehensive checklist of spiders of foreigners based on the specimens deposited in different South Asia with eight countries - Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The European Museums. Indian checklist is also updated for 2006. The South Asian While the Indian checklist (Siliwal et al., 2005) is more spider list is also compiled following The World Spider Catalog accurate, the South Asian spider checklist is not critically by Platnick and other peer-reviewed publications since the last scrutinized due to lack of complete literature, but it gives an update. In total, 2299 species of spiders in 67 families have overview of species found in various South Asian countries, been reported from South Asia. There are 39 species included in this regions checklist that are not listed in the World Catalog gives the endemism of species and forms a basis for careful of Spiders. Taxonomic verification is recommended for 51 species. and participatory work by arachnologists in the region. -
WO 2017/035099 Al 2 March 2017 (02.03.2017) P O P C T
(12) INTERNATIONAL APPLICATION PUBLISHED UNDER THE PATENT COOPERATION TREATY (PCT) (19) World Intellectual Property Organization International Bureau (10) International Publication Number (43) International Publication Date WO 2017/035099 Al 2 March 2017 (02.03.2017) P O P C T (51) International Patent Classification: BZ, CA, CH, CL, CN, CO, CR, CU, CZ, DE, DK, DM, C07C 39/00 (2006.01) C07D 303/32 (2006.01) DO, DZ, EC, EE, EG, ES, FI, GB, GD, GE, GH, GM, GT, C07C 49/242 (2006.01) HN, HR, HU, ID, IL, IN, IR, IS, JP, KE, KG, KN, KP, KR, KZ, LA, LC, LK, LR, LS, LU, LY, MA, MD, ME, MG, (21) International Application Number: MK, MN, MW, MX, MY, MZ, NA, NG, NI, NO, NZ, OM, PCT/US20 16/048092 PA, PE, PG, PH, PL, PT, QA, RO, RS, RU, RW, SA, SC, (22) International Filing Date: SD, SE, SG, SK, SL, SM, ST, SV, SY, TH, TJ, TM, TN, 22 August 2016 (22.08.2016) TR, TT, TZ, UA, UG, US, UZ, VC, VN, ZA, ZM, ZW. (25) Filing Language: English (84) Designated States (unless otherwise indicated, for every kind of regional protection available): ARIPO (BW, GH, (26) Publication Language: English GM, KE, LR, LS, MW, MZ, NA, RW, SD, SL, ST, SZ, (30) Priority Data: TZ, UG, ZM, ZW), Eurasian (AM, AZ, BY, KG, KZ, RU, 62/208,662 22 August 2015 (22.08.2015) US TJ, TM), European (AL, AT, BE, BG, CH, CY, CZ, DE, DK, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HR, HU, IE, IS, IT, LT, LU, (71) Applicant: NEOZYME INTERNATIONAL, INC.