Jurnal Biologi Indonesia 12(2): 307-312 (2016) SHORT CO0081,&$7,21 New Records of the Spider Fauna from Sarawak, Malaysia (Catatan Baru Fauna Laba-Laba dari Sarawak, Malaysia) Dzulhelmi Muhammad 1asir*1, Wong Chun Xing2, Nur-Syahirah Mamat3, Yong Min Pui4, & Badiozaman Sulaiman5 1Institute of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science, Universiti Malaya, 50603 Kuala Lumpur, MALAYS,A 2School of Social Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Heritage, Universiti Malaysia Sabah, Jalan UMS, 88400 Kota Kinabalu, Sabah, MALAYSIA 3School of Environmental and Natural Resource Sciences, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti .HEangsaan 0alaysia, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, MALAYS,A 4Institute of Biodiversity and Environmental Conservation, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 Kota Samarahan, Sarawak, MALAYS,A 5Department of Zoology, Faculty of Resource Science and Technology, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, 94300 .Rta Samarahan, Sarawak, MALAYS,A *E-mail:
[email protected] Received: 1ovember 2015, Accepted: December 2015 Spiders are one of the most diverse orders cies including 46 newly recorded species for Sara- worldwide and ranN seventh in total species diversity waN (.oh et al. 2013). However, other species such among all other group of organisms (Cardoso 0o- as Gasteracantha arcuata, G. hasselti and 3hryna- rano 2010). They are highly adaptaEle, widespread in rachne ceylonica which had also Eeen recorded almost all terrestrial ecosystems, and constitute one of (Grinang 2004) were not listed. Recently, several the most important components of gloEal Eiodiversity newly descriEed species such as -erzego corticicola (0cDonald 2007; Archana 2011). These predators (0addison 3iasciN 2014), Heteropoda parva are good indicators for environmental changes in the (-ager 2014), Aposphragisma Erunomanseri, A. con- ecosystems, potential Eiological invasion, Eiological fluens, A.