Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation “Alpi Marittime” (NW Italy) Marco ISAIA Mauro PASCHETTA Alberto CHIARLE Lab. di Ecologia – Ecosistemi terrestri, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e Biologia dei Sistemi, Università di Torino, Via Accademia Albertina, 13 – 10123 Torino (Italy)
[email protected] Published on 27 March 2015 urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:9DAE08FA-0D78-4C87-ACA6-E60C3C06DD1A Isaia M., Paschetta M. & Chiarle A. 2015. — Annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Site of Com- munity Importance and Special Area of Conservation “Alpi Marittime” (NW Italy), in Daugeron C., Deharveng L., Isaia M., Villemant C. & Judson M. (eds), Mercantour/Alpi Marittime All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory. Zoosystema 37 (1): 57-114. http://dx.doi.org/10.5252/z2015n1a4 ABSTRACT We present an annotated checklist of the spiders (Arachnida Cuvier, 1812; Araneae Clerck, 1757) of the Site of Community Importance and Special Area of Conservation IT1160056 “Alpi Marittime” (NW Italy). Th e checklist is based on literature records and unpublished material collected from 2007 to 2013 within the fi rst European All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory coordinated by the European Dis- tributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT). Th e examination of the literature provided a list of 113 spe- cies recorded for the study area between 1890 and 2013, scattered in 35 publications. Th e new data provided here raise the total number of species known for the study area to 295, grouped in 147 genera and 31 families. We recorded a remarkable percentage (9%) of endemic species, including rare endemic KEY WORDS SW-Alps, elements poorly known in literature, such as Vesubia jugorum (Simon, 1881); Troglohyphantes konradi Piedmont, Brignoli, 1975; Nesticus morisii Brignoli, 1975 and Turinyphia clairi (Simon, 1884).