A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas

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by  Blerina Vrenozi

Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44:41-46 Nürnberg,Dezember2012
A collection of spiders (Araneae) in Albanian coastal areas
BlerinaVrenozi
doi:10.5431/aramit4407
AbstractrThepresentstudyunitesdatafromseveralexcursionsintypicalMediterraneanlowlandecosystemsinAlbania
duringtheyears2006to2009.Spidersfromseveraldifferenthabitattypesalongthecoastwereanalysedinsixdistricts:
Saranda,Fieri,Kavaja,Durresi,Tiranaand Lezha.Intotal299adultspecimenswerecollected.Theybelongto82species,
60 genera and 22 families.Six species are new to the Albanian fauna:Aculepeiraarmida (Audouin, 1826),Zygiellax-notata
(Clerck,1757),Histoponatorpida(C.L.Koch,1837),Malthonicacampestris(C.L.Koch,1834),Pellenestripunctatus(Walckenaer,1802)
andPseudeuophryserratica(Walckenaer, 1826).With respecttozoogeography,thespiderfauna is mainlycharacterized by
thepresenceofmanyPalaearcticspecies.
Keywords:Albanianwestlowland,faunistics,Mediterranean
The spider fauna ofAlbania remains insufficiently 3.Durresi-hillwithPinussp.,20ma.s.l.,N41T3’56”,E
studied.The first reports were published by SIMON 19°31’30”,June2008.
(1884),Strand(1919),Caporiacco(1932,1949), 4. Kavaja - mouth ofriver Shkumbini with Phragmites
TGiOlNtGaIyO(R1G93I2)(,19D6r6e)nasnkdyD(E1E93L6E),MAScNh-eRnEkIeNlHO(1L9D47)&, saupsitnroaslai,s,0Tmamaa.sr.il.x,Nsp.4a1n°2d’3s9a”n,dyEd1u9n°e2s7’w8”i,thAuEgcuhisnto2p0h0o7r.a
DEELEMAN (1988).Newand additionaldatacanbe 5.vFiilelargie,-0m—e1a5domw,a.sv.il.n,eyNar4d0s°4a4nTd9”b,uiEldi1n9g°s28i’n39H”a,vJaulneeas-
foundinthepapersofDELTSHEV(1999),BLAGOEV September2007,April-May2008.
(2005),Vrenozi&Haxhiu(2008),andDeltshev 6.Saranda-hillwithPinussp.andbushes,stonycoastwith
et al. (2011). Considering the variety ofhabitats - shrubs,buildings,0-200ma.s.l.,N39°52T6”,E20T7”,
and compared to records from otherMediterranean July2007 (Fig. l,Tab. 1).
countries-manymorespiderspeciescanbeexpected
tooccurinAlbania.Thepresentstudybuilds upon a
series offaunistic papers about the Albanian spider
fauna(VRENOZI &CHAXHIU2008,DELTSHEVetal.
2011)andazoogeographicanalysisofthedistribution
oftherecordedspiderfaunafromthecoastalareasof
Albania is presented.
Materialsandmethods
Field workwas carried out between 2006 and 2009
in six districts ofAlbania listed from north to south
in the western lowlands (Fig. 1). Data on latitude
andlongitude are taken from http://wikimapia.org
:
1.Lezha-sandycoastofShengjinibeachwithPinussp.,
0ma.s.l.,N41°46’55”,E 19°36T0”,June-August2007.
2.Tirana - Vora hill with Olea europaea, 144 m a.s.l., N
41°23T2”,E19°39’23”,June2007,April-May2008;Bo-
tanicGarden,hillwithshrubs,106ma.s.l.,N41°18’37”,
E 19°48’20”,June2007;DajtiMountain,NationalPark
withFagussylvatica, 1480 m,N 41°21’25”, E 19°54’55”,
June2007,June2008.
BlerinaVRENOZI,UniversitetiiTiranes,FakultetiiShkencave
Natyrore,QendraKerkimoreeFloresdheFaunes,Tirana-
Albania;E-Mail:[email protected]
eingereicht:9.4.2010,akzeptiert:31.7.2012;onlineverfügbar:28.12.2012
42 B.Vrenozi
Vegetation, stones, rocks and ground, etc. were seemstobe“easy”.InAlbaniaonlyonefemalewasre-
investigatedfortheirspidercontentbyhandcollect- cordedinSaranda,3.July2007onahillwithPinussp.
ing, sweeping with entomological nets and beating.
Spiders were killed with ether or chloroform and Histoponatorpida(C. L. Koch, 1837)
A
preservedinethanol(75%).Thematerialisdeposited Palaearcticspecies,widespreadinEuropeandRus-
in theMuseum ofNatural Sciences inTirana. sia. H. torpidawas checked against H. italica andH.
The primary literature used for identification luxurians. InAlbania three femaleswere recorded in
included GRIMM (1985), HEIMER & NENTWIG Saranda,2.July2007 on a hillwith Pinussp.
Maurer Metzner Nent-
(1991), (1992), (1999),
WIG et al. (2011), ROBERTS (1987, 1995), and Malthonicacampestris (C. L. Koch, 1834)
TÜRKES & MERGEN (2008). In addition to these ThisspecieshasaCentralandEasternEuropeandis-
citedreferences,specialistliteraturewasusedforiden- tributionwithafewadditionalrecordsinAzerbaijan.
tifyingsomesimilarspecies:EresuskollariRossi,1846 InAlbania two femaleswere recorded in Saranda, 7.
wasdistinguishedfromEresusmoravicusRezäc,2008 July2007 on the hill ofButrinti castle, on the walls
&
followingThaler Knoflach(2002)andRezäc ofthe castle and adjacentbushes.
etal.(2008);Alopecosapulverulenta(Clerck,1757)and
Trochosarobusta (Simon, 1876)were identifiedusing Pellenestripunctatus (Walckenaer, 1802)
&
Kronestedt (1990), Hepner Milasowszky This species has a Palaearctic distribution. Three
(2006) andMILASOWSZKYetal. (1998)respectively. femaleswererecorded,2.June2008,inthe meadows
Comparative specimens ofthese latter species were and forest with Fagus sylvatica of Dajti Mountain,
subsequentlyreviewedbytheauthorinthe Sencken- Tirana District.
berg Naturmuseum, Frankfurt am Main and in the
Institute ofZoology, Sofia. Pseudeuophryserratica (Walckenaer, 1826)
The order offamilies and nomenclature follows Thisis aPalaearctic species.The onlyfemalewas re-
PLATNICK (2011). Data concerningthe general dis- cordedinSaranda,7.July2007,onthehillofButrinti
tributionofspidersaretakenfromPLATNICK(2011) castle, onwalls andbushes.
and HELSDINGEN (2011).
According to their currentlyknown distribution the
Results established 83 species can be classified into seven
Thepresentstudyyielded 82 speciesbelongingto 60 chorotypes (TAGLIANTI et al. 1999), grouped into
genera and 22 families (256 females, 43 males) (see three chorological complexes: I, Cosmopolitan; II,
Tab. 1).Sixspeciesarerecordedhereforthefirsttime Holarctic; III, European (Tab. 1 and2).
from Albania; five ofwhich were collected only in TheCosmopolitanspeciescomplex(COS,SCO)
Saranda, the southern district ofAlbania: includes six species (7.3 %). The most frequently
recorded complex is the Holarctic one (HOL, OW,
Aculepeiraarmida (Audouin, 1826) PAL, WPA, ECA) which comprises 68 species
Thisspeciesiswidelydistributedinthesouthernparts (82.9%).ThePalaearcticspecies(PAL,WPA,ECA)
ofthe Palaearctic. The female ofA. armida can be comprise 55 species (67.1 %), inhabiting both low-
distinguishedfromA.ceropegiabythestructureofthe lands and mountains, followed by Holarctic species
epigyne.OnlyonefemalewasrecordedinSaranda,8. (HOL)with11 species(13.4%).OnlytwoOldWorld
July2007,intheMirrorbeach,associatedwithrocky specieswererecorded,Argiopelobata(Pallas, 1772),six
habitats and shrubs. females in the Saranda district, and Runciniagram-
mica(C. L. Koch, 1837),one female atthe mouthof
Zygiellax-notata (Clerck, 1757) the river Shkumbini in the Kavaja district and two
Z. x-notatahas a Holarctic distribution and is prob- females in theTirana district.The European species
ably also present in the Neotropics. In Europe it is complex (EUR) species is also well represented and
synanthropic, so an introduction to other continents comprises eight species (9.8 %).
SpidersalongAlbaniancoastalareas 43
Tab.1:Speciescompositionanddistributionofthespidersfoundinthestudyareas
(*newspeciesforAlbania;LE-Lezha,TR-Tirana,DR-Durresi,KV-Kavaja,FR—Fieri,SR-Saranda.COS-Cosmopolitan;SCO-
Subcosmopolitan;HOL-Holarctic;OW-OldWorld;PAL-Palaearctic;WPA-West-Palaearctic;ECA-European-CentralAsian;
EUR-European).
ListofSpecies LE TR DR KV FR SR Zoogeographical
distribution
Pholcidae
Pholcusphalangoid.es(Fuesslin, 1775) 7$ 39 59 COS
Segestridae
Segestriasenoculata(Linnaeus, 1758) 19 PAL
Dysderidae
Dysderacrocata(C. L. Koch, 1838) 1? COS
Dysderaerythrina(Walckenaer, 1802) 2$ EUR
Oonopidae
OonopsdomesticusDalmas, 1916 1$ EUR
Eresidae
EresuskollariRossi, 1846 3d ECA
Theridiidae
Asagenaphalerata(Panzer, 1801) IS,29 PAL
Steatodapaykulliana(Walckenaer, 1805) 59 19 WPA
Steatodatriangulosa(Walckenaer, 1802) 19 COS
Linyphiidae
Agnyphantesexpunctus(O.P.-Cambridge, 1875) 39 IS,29 PAL
Bolyphantesluteolus(Blackwall, 1833) 29 PAL
Floroniabucculenta(Clerck, 1757) 19 EUR
Frontinellinafrutetorum(C.L. Koch, 1834) 59 19 PAL
Lepthyphantesminutus(Blackwall, 1833) 29 HOL
Linyphiatriangularis(Clerck, 1757) 59 PAL
Pityohyphantesphrygianus(C. L. Koch, 1836) 59 3d 2S PAL
Tetragnathidae
Tetragnathaextensa(Linnaeus, 1758) 99 HOL
TetragnathanigritaLendl, 1886 59 PAL
Araneidae
*Aculepeiraarmida(Audouin, 1826) 19 PAL
Aculepeiraceropegia(Walckenaer, 1802) 19 19 19 19 PAL
Agalenatearedii(Scopoli, 1763) 29 PAL
AraneusangulatusClerck, 1757 49 69 PAL
AraneusdiadematusClerck, 1757 89 19 49 69 HOL
AraneusquadratusClerck, 1757 3d PAL
Araneustriguttatus(Fabricius, 1793) 19 PAL
Argiopebruennichi(Scopoli, 1772) 29 19 29 49 PAL
OW
Argiopelobata(Pallas, 1772) 69
Araniellacucurbitina(Clerck, 1757) 19 19 PAL
Cyclosaconica(Pallas, 1772) 79 HOL
Cyclosainsulana(Costa, 1834) 69 SCO
Cyclosaoculata(Walckenaer, 1802) 49 PAL
Hypsosingaheri(Hahn, 1831) 19 PAL
Larinioidescornutus(Clerck, 1757) 39 19 59 29 HOL
Larinioidesixobulus(Thorell, 1873) 19 PAL
Mangoraacalypha(Walckenaer, 1802) 19 PAL
*Zygiellax-notataClerck, 1757 19 HOL
Lycosidae
Alopecosapulverulenta(Clerck, 1757) 29 PAL
Pardosaagricola(Thorell, 1856) 3d ECA
Pardosapullata(Clerck, 1757) 19 ECA
Trochosarobusta(Simon, 1876) 19 PAL
TrochosaterricolaThorell, 1856 Id,29 29 HOL
Pisauridae
Pisauramirabilis(Clerck, 1757) 19 19 19 PAL
44 B.Vrenozi
ListofSpecies LE TR DR KV FR SR Zoogeographical
distribution
Oxyopidae
OxyopesheterophthalmusLatreille, 1804 19 PAL
OxyopeslineatusLatreille, 1806 19 PAL
Agelenidae
Agelenalabyrinthica(Clerck, 1757) 39 PAL
*Histoponatorpida(C. L. Koch, 1843) 39 PAL
*Malthonicacampestris(C. L. Koch, 1834) 29 EUR
Tegenariadomestka(Clerck, 1757) id,3? 49 COS
Textrixdenticulata (Olivier, 1789) 19 19 EUR
Dictynidae
Cicurinacicur(Fabricius, 1793) 19 ECA
Nigmapuella(Simon, 1870) 19 EUR
Titanoecidae
Titanoecaquadriguttata(Hahn, 1833) 19 PAL
Miturgidae
Cheiracanthiumpunctorium(Villers, 1789) 19 ECA
Clubionidae
ClubionabrevipesBlackwall, 1841 19 PAL
ClubionacaerulescensL. Koch, 1867 19 PAL
Clubionacorticalis(Walckenaer, 1802) 2d,69 ECA
ClubionadiversaO.P-Cambridge, 1862 19 1(5,19 PAL
Gnaphosidae
EUR
Drassodescupreus(Blackwall, 1834) 2(5,49
Drassylluspraeficus(L. Koch, 1866) 19 ECA
Scotophaeusblackwalli(Thorell, 1871) 1(5 COS
WPA
Scotophaeusscutulatus(L. Koch, 1866) 19
Sparassidae
Micrommatavirescens(Clerck, 1757) Id,29 19 PAL
Philodromidae
Tibellusoblongus(Walckenaer, 1802) 19 HOL
Thomisidae
Heriaeushirtus(Latreille, 1819) 29 EUR
Misumenavatia(Clerck, 1757) 19 HOL
OW
Runciniagrammica(C. L. Koch, 1837) 29 19
Synemaglobosum(Fabricius, 1775) 49 PAL
Synemaplorator(O P-Cambridge, 1872) 19 ECA
.
ThomisusonustusWalckenaer, 1805 2d,109 19 19 19 PAL
Xysticuscristatus(Clerck, 1757) 5d,79 PAL
ECA
Xysticusrobustus(Hahn, 1832) 1(5
Salticidae
Aelurillusv-insignitus(Clerck, 1757) 19 19 PAL
Carrhotusxanthogramma(Latreille, 1819) 19 PAL
Euophrysfrontalis(Walckenaer, 1802) 4(5 PAL
Evarchafalcata(Clerck, 1757) 19 PAL
Heliophanusfiavipes(Hahn, 1832) 19 PAL
ECA
HeliophanustribulosusSimon, 1868 4(5
*Pellenestripunctatus(Walckenaer, 1802) 39 PAL
Philaeuschrysops(Poda, 1761) 2(5 PAL
*Pseudeuophryserratica(Walckenaer, 1826) 19 PAL
HOL
Salticusscenicus(Clerck, 1757) 89
HOL
Sitticuspubescens(Fabricius, 1775) 19
Numberofspecies 3 42 11 6 31 22
Numberofindividuals 10 121 14 23 77 56
.
SpidersalongAlbaniancoastalareas 45
Tab.2:Speciesnumberaccordingtocomplexesandchorotypes.AbbreviationsasinTab.1
Complexes Chorotypes speciesnumber %
COS
COS 5 6.1
SCO
1 1.2
Total 6 7.3
HOL
11 13.4
OW
2 2.4
HOL PAL 43 52.4
WPA
2 2.4
ECA
10 12.2
Total 68 82.9
EUR EUR
8 9.8
Total 8 9.8
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