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European Society of Arachnology

Colloquium proceedings

Selden PA (ed) 1998. Proceedings of the 17th European Colloquium of Arachnology. Edinburgh 1997.
British Arachnological Society, Burnham Beeches, Bucks, 350 pp.
ISBN 0-9500093-2-6

Purchase: http://www.britishspiders.org.uk/html/bas.php?page=cq&menu=publ



Table of contents

Preface and contents
Author Index

* invited presentations

*Otto Kraus – Elucidating the historical process of phylogeny: Phylogenetic Systematics versus cladistic techniques   1–7

Jason A. Dunlop – The origins of tetrapulmonate book lungs and their significance for chelicerate phylogeny   9–16

*Andrew J. Jeram – Phylogeny, classification and evolution of Silurian and Devonian scorpions   17–31

Benjamin Gantenbein, Lilian Büchi, Matt E. Braunwalder & Adolf Scholl – The genetic population structure of Euscorpius germanus (C. L. Koch) (Scorpiones: Chactidae) in Switzerland   33–40

*Rosemary G. Gillespie, Malia A. J. Rivera & Jessica E. Garb – Sun, surf and spiders: taxonomy and phylogeography of Hawaiian Araneae   41–51

Peter Jäger – First results of a taxonomic revision of the SE Asian Sparassidae (Araneae)   53–59

Barbara Baehr – The genus Hersilia: phylogeny and distribution in Australia and New Guinea (Arachnida, Araneae, Hersiliidae)   61–65

Valerie Todd Davies – A redescription and renaming of the Tasmanian spider Amphinecta milvina (Simon, 1903), with descriptions of four new species (Araneae: Amaurobioidea: Amaurobiidae)   67–82

Barbara York Main – Hogg's phantom spider from Central Australia: a century-old mystery solved   83–90

Norbert Milasowszky, Marie Elisabeth Herberstein & Klaus Peter Zulka – Morphological separation of Trochosa robusta (Simon, 1876) and Trochosa ruricola (De Geer, 1778) females (Araneae: Lycosidae)   91–96

Hisham K. El-Hennawy – Redescription of the male of Dorceus quadrispilotus Simon, 1908 from Egypt (Araneae: Eresidae)   97–100

Vlastimil Ruzicka – The subterranean forms of Lepthyphantes improbulus, Theonoe minutissima and Theridion bellicosum (Araneae: Linyphiidae, Theridiidae)   101–105

K. Thaler & Barbara Knoflach – Two new species and new records of the genus Amaurobius (Araneae, Amaurobiidae) from Greece   107–114

Marek Zabka & Jerzy Prószynsky – Middle European Euophrys C. L. Koch, 1834 (Araneae: Salticidae) — one, two or three genera?   115–120

*G. S. Oxford – Guanine as a colorant in spiders: development, genetics, phylogenetics and ecology   121–131

J. Kovoor & A. Muñoz-Cuevas – Structure and function of the silk-gland system in Oxyopidae (Araneae)   133–141

A. Muñoz-Cuevas, P. Carricaburu & J. Kovoor – Comparative electroretinography of Peucetia gerhardi and Peucetia graminea (Araneae: Oxyopidae)   143–150

Christian Kropf – Slit sense organs of Comaroma simonii Bertkau: a morphological atlas (Araneae, Anapidae)   151–159

*Fritz Vollrath – Sex-linked differences in the growth of Nephila clavipes   161–166

Paul James Yoward – Sperm competition in Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775) (Araneae, Pholcidae) — shorter second copulations gain a higher paternity reward than first copulations   167–170

Maciej Bartos – Quantitative analyses of male courtship behaviour in Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin, 1775) (Araneae, Pholcidae)   171–176

G. Blandenier & P.-A. Fürst – Ballooning spiders caught by a suction trap in an agricultural landscape in Switzerland   177–186

Eric Duffey – Aerial dispersal in spiders   187–191

Alain Pasquet & Raymond Leborgne – Management of web construction in different spider species   193–196

Marie Elisabeth Herberstein – Implications of microhabitat selection on prey capture for the web spider Neriene radiata (Walckenaer) (Araneae: Linyphiidae)   197–202

*Susan E. Riechert & Jennifer L. Maupin – Spider effects on prey: tests for superfluous killing in five web-builders   203–210

Astrid M. Heiling & Marie E. Herberstein – Activity patterns in different developmental stages and sexes of Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck) (Araneae, Araneidae)   211–214

Ferenc Samu, József Németh, Ferenc Tóth, Éva Szita, Balázs Kiss & Csaba Szinetár – Are two cohorts responsible for the bimodal life-history pattern in the wolf spider Pardosa agrestis in Hungary?   215–221

Peter Koomen – Winter activity of Anyphaena accentuata (Walckenaer, 1802) (Araneae: Anyphaenidae)   223–225

Volker Framenau – Life cycles of Lycosa lapidosa McKay, 1974, and Lycosa arenaris (Hogg, 1905), two riparian wolf spiders from south-eastern Australia   227–234

M. Chatzaki, A. Trichas, G. Markakis & M. Mylonas – Seasonal activity of the ground spider fauna in a Mediterranean ecosystem (Mt Youchtas, Crete, Greece)   235–243

Pawel Szymkowiak & Marek Wozny – Dominance structure and seasonal changes in the abundance of dominant epigeic spiders in pastures of northern Greater Poland   245–252

James R. Bell, W. Rod Cullen & C. Philip Wheater – The structure of spider communities in limestone quarry environments   253–259

James R. Bell, Alison J. Haughton, W. Rod Cullen & C. Philip Wheater – The zonation and ecology of a sand-dune spider community   261–266

Janusz Kupryjanowicz, Izabela Hajdamowicz, Alicja Stankiewicz & Wojciech Starega – Spiders of some raised peat bogs in Poland   267–272

Lars J. Jonsson – Spiders of the Skäralid Gorge, southernmost Sweden   273–276

Antje Lisken-Kleinmans – The spider community of a northern German heathland: faunistic results   277–284

Frederik Hendrickx, Jean-Pierre Maelfait, Wouter Muylaert & Maurice Hoffmann – Spider distribution patterns along the tidal River Scheldt (Belgium)   285–291

Jean-Pierre Maelfait & Frederik Hendrickx – Spiders as bio-indicators of anthropogenic stress in natural and semi-natural habitats in Flanders (Belgium): some recent developments   293–299

Uwe Riecken – The importance of semi-natural landscape structures in an agricultural landscape as habitats for stenotopic spiders   301–310

Iain S. Downie, Vicky J. Abernethy, Garth N. Foster, Davy I. McCracken, Ignacio Ribera & Anthony Waterhouse – Spider biodiversity on Scottish agricultural land   311–317

A. Canard, P. Marc & F. Ysnel – Comparative value of habitat biodiversity: an experimental system based on spider community analysis   319–323

Tracey B. Churchill – Spiders as ecological indicators in the Australian tropics: family distribution patterns along rainfall and grazing gradients   325–330

Klaus Peter Zulka & Norbert Milasowszky – Conservation problems in the Neusiedler See–Seewinkel National Park, Austria: an arachnological perspective   331–336

Stanislav Pekár – Effect of selective insecticides on the beneficial spider community of a pear orchard in the Czech Republic   337–342

A. P. Noordam, R. A. Samson & W. Sudhaus – Fungi and Nematoda on Centromerus sylvaticus (Araneae, Linyphiidae)   343–347

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