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Australasian Arachnology - Page 2 AUSTRAlASIAN ARACHNOlOGY Number 52: March 1997 Price $1 ISSN 0811-3696 Australasian Arachnology - Page 2 THE AUSTRALASIAN BACK ISSUES ARACHNOLOGICAL SOCIETY Back Issues are available from the Administrator at $1 per issue. The main aim of the society is to foster interest in arachnids in the Australasian liBRARY region. Members who do not have access to a MEMBERSHIP scientific library can write to our Librarian Information concerning membership rna y be Jean-Claude Herremans obtained from the Administrator: P.O. Box 291 Manly, New South Wales 2095, Richard J, Faulder Australia Agricultural Institute Yanco, New South Wales 2703, He has a large number of reference books, Australia scientific journals and scientific papers Email [email protected] available, either for loan or as photocopies. He also asks our professional members to send All membership enquiries (subscriptions, him a copy of any reprints they might have. changes of address, etc.) must be directed to the Administrator. ARTIClES Membership fees for residents in Australia, Articles should be sent to the editor: $3; in New Zealand and Papua New Guinea, $4; other members $5 (surface mail) (airmail Mark S. Harvey rates: $10). Fees for Australian institutions, Western Australian Museum $4; overseas institutions, $8 (surface mail). Francis Street Cheques should be made payable to "The Perth, Western Australia 6000, Australasian Arachnological Society", and Australia should be in Australian dollars. More than one Email [email protected] year's subscription may be paid for at a time. and should be typed or legibly written on one Receipts are not issued unless requested. The side of A4 paper. Submission via email or on Status box on the mailing label indicates the computer disk would vastly simplify number of the last issue for which you have publication. Don't forget to indicate the word­ paid. processing language used (e.g. WordPerfect 6.0, Word for Windows, MacWrite). The disk will be returned only upon request. Cover illustration: Nicodamus peregrinus (Walckenaer) by Graham Milledge Australasian Arachnology - Page 3 SPIDERS IN MORWEll among the drier leaf litter or under logs. NATIONAL PARK Among the spiders collected in the rainforest by Rob de Souza~Daw 1 and David Hirse areas as a Nanometa sp. Some of the araneids found were collected from orb-webs 'Churchill, Victoria, Australia constructed between the wires of the Park's 2Arachnology, South Australian Museum, fenc-ing. Other man made structures supported North Terrace, Adelaide, populations of Philoponella congregabilis and South Australia 5000 Badumna longiquus. During the year ended 30 June 1995 de Souza­ The Department of Conservation and Natural Daw conducted a survey of spiders in Morwell Resources issued the requisite Research National Park. Located in eastern Victoria at Permit. Specimens have been deposited either around 38°22'S, 146°24'E, the Park covers an in the Museum of Victoria or the South area of 500 hectares all of which has been Australian Museum. The identifications were subject to human disturbance. The Park was by Hirst from whom a complete list can be visited during daylight hours and at night, a obtained. total of 14 occasions. Of the 281 specimens collected, representing 21 families, only four specimens were BOOK REVIEW: mygalomorphs, Stanwellia grisea and a 'Australasian Spiders and their Bymainiella species, which were found under Relatives: Papers Honouring logs. No excavation of burrows or pitfall Barbara York Main' trapping was carried out. A significant proportion of all spiders collected were non­ by Peter Fairweather adult. PO Box 787, Griffith, Also common under logs were Stiphidion New South Wales 2680, Australia facetum which appeared to show a preference for those burnt by fire. Amaurobiids and Harvey, M.S. (ed.) (1995). Australasian desids were found in the hollows or deep Spiders and their Relatives: Papers Honouring grooves of the stringybark trees. Most Barbara York Main. Records of the Western clubionids, gnaphosids, heteropodids, Australian Museum Supplement No. 52, pp. 1- lamponids and nicodamids favoured the bark v, 1-263. of mature manna, mountain grey and blue gums. Two nicodamid species were collected: This is a splendid book of technical papers Am.bicodamus southwelli and Novodam.us describing many aspects of arachnid biology nodatus. Of the jumping spiders, relevant to this part of the world. Excellently Paraplatoides nigrum and Helpis minitabunda put together on high quality glossy paper, it were also found under bark of trees. features superb SEM photographs and line drawings of taxonomic and anatomical detail. Creek banks supported populations of The authors make up a "Who's Who" of Tetragnatha valida, the long-jawed spider and Australian arachnology and it all comes at a the Fishing Spider Dolomedes sp., Lycosa modest price. Even better is the fact that it furcillata and a Trochosa sp. were found in the celebrates the professional life of a remarkable moist conditions in the Park while other wolf Australian, spiders, including Venator fuscus, were found Australasian Arachnology - Page 4 Barbara York Main has had an incalculable contribution comes from the USA. impact on arachnology in Australia and internationally, Her many papers on the Like many non-professionals, I got most from taxonomy, natural history and general biology the general biology papers. Mark Elgar gives of spiders and their kin are renowned. Her a thorough comparative review of the duration popular writings introduced many laypeople to of copulation across spider families. Lyn the fascinating life histories of trapdoor Forster summarises the behavioural ecology of spiders, among other facets of nature. Like redback spiders concluding that they may be many, I was inspired by her two guidebooks endemic after all. Alan Yen deals with the (from 1964 & 1976) on spiders. I remember problems of conserving a group so well known making enonnous use of the fanner, a real by the public as to be disliked! He focuses on little handbook in indigo and then orange the threats to them as well as their benefits to covers for different reprints. us. Dave Walter documents the extraordinary richness of mites within domatia (tiny Back to the book: I found the biographical structures) on rainforest leaves, Graham Smith sketch of Barbara York Main by Ernest quantitatively describes scorpion abundances in Hodgkin to be an interesting insight into her the WA wheatbelt, an ecological approach that career. Furthermore the volume includes a Australian arachnology has yet to really publication list of her 85 works from 1952 to embrace but for which the pioneering work of 1993 (presumably there have been more in the Barbara York Main has prepared the ground two years hence). This is a very useful so well. compendium to a highly productive career. Also touching are the tributes that many of the I highly recommend this book to anyone authors build into the Introduction or interested in the state of the art of Australasian Acknowledgments sections of their papers. arachnology, Through the technical detail Many of these rang bells with me, as they will shines a deep fascination with the world of with anyone who was a budding amateur spiders and their kin, and an enormous arachnologist during the 1960s and 70s. appreciation of the contribution of Barbara York Main to our current understanding of this The book contains 7 papers on aspects of the subject. behaviour, ecology or conservation of arachnids, 12 on the systematics and morphology of spiders and another 8 on other arachnids. Eleven new species and 2 new liBRARY NEWS genera are described. Fittingly at least 4 of the 16 chapters on spiders deal with mygalomorphs, There are 4 papers on the Additions to reprint collection were received Acarina, 2 on scorpions as well as one each on from: schizomids, pseudoscorpions, harvestmen, chelicerates generally and spider parasitoids. Dr Francoise Athias-Binche (France) Families to feature are the Salticidae, Dr Robert Jackson (New Zealand) Thomisidae, Heteropodidae, Theriidiae, DrS. Mahnuka (Hungary) Araneidae, Gnaphosidae, Zodariidae and even Prof. H. W. Levi (U.S.A.) the little known Hersiliidae. Social spiders Groupe d•etude des Arachnides (especially Diaea species) are dealt with in Thanks to Tom Gush for assistance with three chapters. Twenty-three of the papers are photocopying. authored by Australians, 3 each by New Zealanders or Europeans and a sole Australasian Arachnology - Page 5 BOOK REVIEW: read text, thanks to a different font. 'Spider Genera of North America, with keys to families and genera, A publication like this one, written by such an and a guide to literature' authority as Dr Roth, rouses the highest expectations. After going through the by .Jean-Claude Herremans publication, those expectations were amply fulfilled. As an identification guide, it is of PO Box 291, Manly, great value to anyone interested in spiders. New South Wales 2095, Australia Congratulations to the author. The guide is now in the Society's library. Roth, V.D. (1993). Spider Genera of North America, with keys to families and genera, and a guide to literature. Third edition. Soft-cover, 21.5 x 28 em. 203 pages. MEMBERSHIP Available from Dr Jon Reiskind, Department Chang"' of Address of Zoology, University of Florida, Gainesville, Fl 32611, USA. Price not stated. Dr Robin Leech, Biological Sciences, Northern Alberta Institute of Technology, This book, produced by the author and 11762 One hundred & Sixth Street, Edmonton, dedicated to Willis J. Gertsch and Benjamin J. Alberta T5G2Rl, Canada (email: (BJ) Kaston, is a handy guide to the North [email protected] .ca) American araneological fauna. It is divided into three parts. The first section (16pages) Eric Brouwers, P.O. Box 210, Creswick consists of several short chapters dealing with Victoria 3363, Australia information such as abbreviations for U.S. States and Canadian Provinces, hints for the Adrian M. Colebrook, 2176 Grose Road, beginning student, addresses of main Faulconbridge, New South Wales 2776, arachnological societies, updated glossary, and Australia fmally a list of useful publications.
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