Faunistics And Taxonomic Study Of Spider (Arachnida: Araneae) Fauna In District Battagram Kp, Pakistan
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The current study investigated spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) Fauna in the Battagram District from March to November of 2022. All around up to 900 spider specimens were collected by using a variety of methods, such as the use of bark pitfall traps, ground pitfall traps, cryptic searching, aerial hand collection, ground hand collection, vegetation beating, and white beating sheets from 31 locations throughout the research area, and then were kept in 70% ethanol, and were then classified into 15 families, 41 genera, and 53 species using taxonomic keys of (Tikader, 1987;) and online keys on http://araneae.nmbc.ch/; Ali, 2017. The families that have been confirmed are Agelenidae, Araneidae, Corinnidae, Gnaphosidae, Idiopidae, Lycosidae, Pisauridae, Salticidae, Sparassidae, Palpimanidae, Pholcidae, Tetragnathidae, Theridiidae, Thomisidae, Oxyopidae. From the research area, all species have been discovered for the first time; however, Aculepeira carbonaria, Agelena orientalis, Allagelena gracilens, Araniella inconspicua, Agalenatea redii, Araniella proxima, Araneus angulatus, Araniella opisthographa, Bassaniodes bufo, Cambalida flavipes, Drassyllus lutetianus, , Gnaphosa leporina, Histopona torpida, Heriaeus simoni, Langona aperta, Palpimanus gibbulus, Parasyrisca schenkeli, Pardosa bifasciata, Pisaura mirabilis, Tegenaria lapicidinarum, Tegenaria silvestris, Thyene calebi, Xysticus bifasciatus and Xysticus ferrugineus, for the first time from Pakistan. The Araneidae family was the most prevalent family with 13 species classified under 9 genera; the least number of species reported belonged to the Palpimanidae, Pisauridae, and Theridiidae families. Further investigation into the spider fauna of Battagram could potentially commence from the current study.
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