European Society of Arachnology

Deltshev C & Stoev P (eds) 2006. European Arachnology 2005. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica, supplementum No. 1. ISSN 0324-0770 Online access to these publications is restricted to members of the European Society of Arachnology

Table of contents

Foreword   3
Colloquium Photo   4–5

Helsdingen P – In memoriam Konrad Thaler   7–8

* invited presentation

PALEONTOLOGY

*Dunlop JA – New ideas about the euchelicerate stem-lineage   9–23

Penney D & Selden PA – Assembling the Tree of Life-Phylogeny of Spiders: a review of the strictly fossil spider families   25–39

MORPHOLOGY

Gutjahr M, Schuster R & Alberti G – UItrastructure of dermal and defence glands in Cyphophthalmus duricorius JOSEPH, 1868 (Opiliones: Sironidae)   41–48

Jäger P – Lengthening of embolus and copulatory duct: a review of an evolutionary trend in the spider family Sparassidae (Araneae)   49–62

TAXONOMY AND SYSTEMATICS

Azarkina GN – Four new species of the genus Aelurillus SIMON, 1884 (Araneae: Salticidae)   63–72

Gnelitsa VA – Typhochrestus longisulcus sp. n., a new spider species from the Crimean Peninsula, Ukraine (Araneae: Linyphiidae)   73–76

Haupt J – On the taxonomic position of the East Asian species of the genus Ummidia THORELL, 1875 (Araneae: Qenizidae)   77–80

Lazarov S - A new spider species, Harpactea samuiIi sp. n., from Bulgaria (Araneae: Dysderidae)   81–85

Ovtsharenko VI, Fedoryak MM & Zakharov BP – Ground spiders of the genus Taieria FORSlER, 1979 in New Zealand: taxonomy and distribution (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)   87–94

Snegovaya N – On the harvestman fauna of Absheron-Qobustan zone (Azerbaijan), with a description of a new species (Opiliones)   95–100

ECOLOGY

Gajdoš P – Spiders of the Domica drainage area (Slovak Karst Mts.): community composition and habitat evaluation (Araneae)   101–114

van Helsdingen PJ – Characteristic spider species of peat bog fenlands in the Netherlands (Araneae)   115–124

Jocqué R & Alderweireldt M – Lycosidae: the grassland spiders   125–130

Koponen S & Koneva GG – Spiders along a pollution gradient (Araneae)   131–136

Lambeets K, Bonte D, Van Looy K, Hendrickx F & Maelfait J-P – Synecology of spiders (Araneae) of gravel banks and environmental constraints along a lowland river system, the Common Meuse (Belgium, the Netherlands)   137–149

Piterkina T – The diel vertical migrations of herbage-dwelling spiders in clayey semi-desert of the northern Caspian Sea basin, West Kazakhstan (Araneae)   151–159

Seyfulina RR – Microhabitat effect on spider distribution in winter wheat agroecosystem (Araneae)   161–172

Shaw EM, Wheater CP & Langan AM – The effects of cypermethrin on Tenuiphantes tenuis (BLACKWALL, 1852): development of a technique for assessing the impact of pesticides on web building in spiders (Araneae: Linyphiidae)   173–179

Sudhikumar AV, Mathew JM, Sunish E & Sebastian PA – Seasonal variation in spider abundance in Kuttanad rice agroecosystem, Kerala, India (Araneae)   181–190

Svaton J & Gajdoš P – Spiders of Gaderska and Blatnicka Dolina valleys in the southern part of Vel'ka Fatra Mts., Slovakia (Araneae)   191–219

Szinetár Cs & Horváth, R – A review of spiders on tree trunks in Europe (Araneae)   221–257

BIOGEOGRAPHY

Marusik YuM, Mikhailov KG & Guseinov EF – Advance in the study of biodiversity of Caucasian spiders (Araneae)   259–268

Polchaninova NYu & Prokopenko HV – History of study and a brief survey of the araneofauna of the Left-Bank Ukraine (Araneae)   269–280

Tatole A – On the biogeography of Romanian spiders (Araneae)   281–285

Topçu A, Demir H, Seyyar O & Türkes T – The spider fauna of the Gülek Pass (Turkey) and its environs (Araneae)   287–295

FAUNISTICS

Bennett SP & Penney D – New spider species records for the Isle of MuIl, UK (Araneae)   297–300

Komnenov M – New data on jumping spiders in the Republic of Macedonia with a complete checklist (Araneae: Salticidae)   301–314

Sebastian PA, Murugesan S, Mathew MJ, Sudhikamar AV & Sunish E – Spiders in Mangalavanam, an ecosensitive mangrove forest in Cochin, Kerala, India (Araneae)   315–318

Sudhikamar AV, Mathew MJ, Sunish E, Murugesan S & Sebastian PA – Preliminary studies on the spider fauna in Mannavan shola forest, Kerala, India (Araneae)   319–327

Szita É, Samu F, Szinetar Cs, Dudás G, Botos E, Horváth R & Szalkovszki O – New data on the occurrence of Gnaphosa rofula (L. KOCH, 1866) and Gnaphosa mongolica SIMON, 1895 in Hungary (Araneae: Gnaphosidae)   329–334

Topçu A, Seyyar O, Demir H & Türkes T – A contribution to the knowledge of the Turkish spider fauna (Araneae)   335–338

PARASITOLOGY

Gladnishka TK, Tasseva E, Christova I, Nikolov MA, Lazarov SP – Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato, Anaplasma phagocytophilum and Spotted Fever Group Rickettsiae in ticks from the region of Sofia, Bulgaria (Acari: Parasitiformes: Ixodidae)   339–343

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