Arachnological information
https://arages.de/en/journal/arachnology-lettersRehfeldt S & Cassar T
A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe
Ein Beitrag zur Arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) der maltesischen Inseln, mit zwei Neunachweisen für Europa.
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The arachnid fauna of the Maltese Islands has not yet been adequately investigated. In the present work, from a total of 117 species sampled, 36 taxa represent newly recorded spider species (Araneae) for Malta, with an additional new record of a harvestman (Opiliones). These new records include three new spider families and one new harvestman family for the Maltese archipelago: Anyphaenidae Bertkau, 1878, Mimetidae Simon, 1881, Oxyopidae Thorell, 1869 and Sclerosomatidae Simon, 1879; as well as two species which are recorded from Europe for the first time: Acartauchenius insigniceps (Simon, 1894) and Zelotes poecilochroaeformis Denis, 1937. Ecological, distributional, biogeographical and taxonomic notes are provided for the newly recorded species.
Comino, Europe, Gozo, harvestmen, Malta, Mediterranean, new records, spiders