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European Society of Arachnology

Logunov DV & Penney D (eds) 2004. European Arachnology 2003.
KMK Scientific Press Ltd, Moscow, 376 pp. ISBN 5-87317-174-2
Arthropoda Selecta (Special Issue No. 1, 2004). ISSN 0136-006X



Table of contents

Foreword   5
List of Participants   7
Colloquium Photo   8–9

Stekol'nikov AA – Professor Victor Tyshchenko (1937-1986) and his contribution to Russian arachnology   11–19

Mikhailov KG – A brief historical overview of the development of arachnology in Russia   21–34

Bruun LE, Michaelsen KR, Sørensen A, Nielsen MH & Toft S – Mating duration of Pisaura mirabilis (Araneae: Pisauridae) depends on the size of the nuptial gift and not on male size   35–39

Deeleman-Reinhold CL – On the taxonomic relations of lynx spiders from the canopy of a tropical Asian rainforest (Araneae: Oxyopidae)   41–52

Deltshev C – A review of the family Linyphiidae (Araneae) in Bulgaria, faunistic and zoogeographical analyses   53–66

Dunlop JA – A spiny harvestman (Arachnida: Opiliones) from the Upper Carboniferous of Missouri, USA   67–74

Fedoryak MM & Evtushenko KV – On the Lycosidae (Araneae) occurring on the pebble banks of the river Siret and its tributaries, Ciscarpathia (Ukraine)   75–78

Gnelitsa VAAraeoncus tauricus sp.n.: a new spider species (Araneae: Linyphiidae) from the Crimea, Ukraine   79–82

Gromov AV – Four new species of the genus Karschia Walter, 1889 (Arachnida: Solifugae: Karschiidae) from Central Asia   83–92

Guseinov EF – Natural prey of the jumping spider Menemerus semilimbatus (Hahn, 1827) (Araneae: Salticidae), with notes on its unusual predatory behaviour   93–100

Helsdingen PJ van – The merits of a European checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae)   101–106

Jäger P – A study of the character 'palpal claw' in the spider subfamily Heteropodinae (Araneae: Sparassidae)   107–125

Judson MLI – Baltic amber fossil of Garypinus electri Beier provides first evidence of phoresy in the pseudoscorpion family Garypinidae (Arachnida: Chelonethi)   127–131

Koponen S – Effects of intensive fire on the ground-living spider fauna (Araneae) of a pine forest   133–137

Kovblyuk NM – The spider genus Trachyzelotes Lohmander, 1844 in the Crimea, south Ukraine (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)   139–146

Lehtinen PT – Taxonomic notes on the Misumenini (Araneae: Thomisidae: Thomisinae), primarily from the Palaearctic and Oriental regions   147–184

Marusik YuM – Fauna and populations of the petrophilous spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of north-east Siberia and north-west Canada   185–200

Marusik YuM & Penney D – A survey of Baltic amber Theridiidae (Araneae) inclusions, with descriptions of six new species   201–218

Oliger TI – Epigaeic spider assemblages of the sphagnum biotopes in Lake Ladoga region, north-west Russia   219–224

Penney D – Estimations of global extant spider family richness using neontological and palaeontological data   225–234

Pétillon J, Ysnel F, Le Gleut S, Lefeuvre J-C & Canard A – Responses of spider communities to salinity and flooding in a tidal salt marsh (Mont St.-Michel Bay, France)   235–248

Platen R – Spider assemblages (Arachnida: Araneae) as indicators for degraded oligotrophic moors in north-east Germany   249–260

Polchaninova NYu – Effect of hay-mowing on spider communities of the meadow steppes of the central forest-steppe (Russia and Ukraine)   261–273

Seyfulina RR – Spatial distribution of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) in agroecosystems of the European part of Russia   275–292

Shavanova TM – Species composition of the harvestmen (Arachnida: Opiliones) in biocoenoses of the vicinities of Minsk (Belarus)   293–295

Shaw EM, Wheater CP & Langan AM – Do pesticide applications influence feeding and locomotor behaviour of Pardosa amentata (Clerck) (Araneae: Lycosidae)?   297–305

Snegovaya NYu – Preliminary notes on the harvestman fauna (Opiliones) of Azerbaijan   307–318

Tuneva TK – A contribution on the gnaphosid spider fauna (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) of east Kazakhstan   319–332

Vanacker D, Deroose K, Van Nieuwenhuyse L, Vandomme V, Vanden Borre J & Maelfait J-P – The springtail Sinella curviseta: the most suitable prey for rearing dwarf spiders   333–342

Vugdelic M, Goodacre S, Smith H & Hewitt G – Preliminary analysis of the genetic structure in the fen raft spider Dolomedes plantarius (Araneae: Pisauridae)   343–348

Zonstein SL – The spider chelicerae: some problems of origin and evolution   349–366

Zschokke S – Glue droplets in fossil spider webs   367–374

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