Arthropoda Selecta 29(1): 141–150 © ARTHROPODA SELECTA, 2020 Spiders (Aranei) of the Arctic Island Sibiryakova, Kara Sea, Russia Ïàóêè àðêòè÷åñêîãî îñòðîâà Ñèáèðÿêîâà, Êàðñêîå ìîðå, Ðîññèÿ Andrei V. Tanasevitch1, Leonid B. Rybalov1, Iraida G. Vorobeva2 À.Â. Òàíàñåâè÷1, Ë.Á. Ðûáàëîâ1, È.Ã. Âîðîáüåâà2 1 A.N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution, Russian Academy of Sciences, Leninsky prospekt 33, Moscow 119071, Russia. E- mails:
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[email protected] Институт проблем экологии и эволюции имени А.Н. Северцова РАН, Ленинский проспект 33, Москва 119071, Россия. 2 Mari State University, Yoshkar-Ola, Lenina Sq. 1.
[email protected] Марийский государственный университет, Йошкар-Ола, пл. Ленина 1. KEY WORDS: Russian Arctic, tundra, chorology, check-list, pitfall trapping, soil sampling. КЛЮЧЕВЫЕ СЛОВА: Российская Арктика, тундра, хорология, список видов, ловушки Барбера, по- чвенные пробы. ABSTRACT. The Sibiryakova Island was found to lection of land invertebrates comprised 60–91% in ear- be inhabited by 13 spider species of a single family ly July and 10–49% in the second part of July. Spiders Linyphiidae. In the composition of zoogeographic ele- comprise 27–63% of the macrofauna in the soil sam- ments, the island fauna can be characterized as Siberi- ples. Each of the 13 spider species of the Sibiryakova an and consisting mostly of species with Siberian and Island is characterized by distribution between the veg- Siberian-Nearctic ranges. In the composition of zonal etation types, the range and belonging to the zonal fractions, the fauna is arctic and represented mainly by fraction are indicated. pure arctic components (11 species), with a small pro- In addition, the species Agyneta decora (O.