ARACHNOLOGISCHE GESELLSCHAFT

Arachnology Letters

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Heft 30 (2005)

Cover/Contents Arachnologische Mitteilungen 30, 2005

Cover/Contents Arachnologische Mitteilungen 30, 2005

Le temps marche si vite – ein Nachruf auf Konrad Thaler

Le temps marche si vite – an obituary for Konrad Thaler

Abstract

obituary, bibliography, Konrad Thaler

Abundanz und Vikarianz epigäischer Weberknechtarten (Arachnida: Opiliones) in einem Auwaldgebiet des Mainzer Beckens

Abundance and vicariance of epigeic opilionids (Arachnida: Opiliones) of an inundation forest in the "Mainzer Becken", Germany

Abstract

From the beginning of November 2003 to January 2004 the opilionid fauna was collected in a floodplain forest of the Rhine valley west of Mainz. Altogether 1643 individuals were captured in pitfall traps; these belong to six species representing three families. The thermophilous species Astrobunus laevipes, Nemastoma dentigerum and Trogulus martensi are noteworthy for this habitat. Results on the phenology of three stenochronous species over the sample periods are presented, and both activity abundance and dominance were measured. Additionally survival strategies for flooding periods are proposed and vicariance and concurrence with related species are discussed.

Neue Nachweise bi- und unisexueller "Populationen" von Megabunus lesserti (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) in den Nordostalpen

Bisexuals surrounded by all-female clones: new records of Megabunus lesserti (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) in the north-eastern Alps

Abstract

New data on the sex ratio of 16 populations of the endemic harvestman Megabunus lesserti Schenkel, 1927 in the northeastern Alps confirm the previously assumed pattern of geographic parthenogenesis. Bisexuals inhabit a small area between the eastern margin of the Northern Calcareous Alps and the Ennstaler Alps, which was covered by ice during the last (Würm) glaciations. Postglacially recolonized areas are occupied by parthenogenetic clones. Some all-female samples were found in close geographic proximity to bisexual populations. Apparently isolated occurrences at the western (Ammergau Alps) and southwestern (Carinthian) limits of the range proved to consist exclusively of females. A single male recorded in the Karwendel Mts. near Innsbruck is interpreted preferentially as a case of spanandry, being a fatherless "mistake" without any significant function.

Mittel- und nordeuropäische Weberknechte aus dem Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Central and North European harvestmen from the Senckenberg Museum Frankfurt (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Abstract

About 1100 individuals belonging to 32 opilionid species (300 series), mainly of German origin, were identified based on material provided by, and stored at, the Senckenberg Museum, Frankfurt (Main). A list of all species with habitat information is included. Comments on two remarkable species (Oligolophus hanseni, Odiellus spinosus) are given. The comments include the importance of some series as reference material from MARTENS (1978), additions to regional faunas and the expansion of the known distribution of some thermophilous species.

Jörg Wunderlich (Hrsg.) (2004): Fossil Spiders in Amber and Copal. Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und Kopal

Jörg Wunderlich (ed.) (2004): Fossil Spiders in Amber and Copal. Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und Kopal

Abstract

book review: Jörg Wunderlich (ed.) (2004): Fossil Spiders in Amber and Copal. Fossile Spinnen in Bernstein und Kopal.

Rainar Nitzsche (2004): Spinne sein. Spinnen-Spiegelungen in Menschen-Augen

Rainar Nitzsche (2004): Spinne sein. Spinnen-Spiegelungen in Menschen-Augen

Abstract

book review: Rainar Nitzsche (2004): Spinne sein. Spinnen-Spiegelungen in Menschen-Augen.

Konrad-Thaler-Gedächtnispreis der Arachnologischen Gesellschaft e.V.

Konrad-Thaler-Gedächtnispreis der Arachnologischen Gesellschaft e.V.

Abstract

memorial award, Konrad-Thaler-Gedächtnispreis

Offener Brief an Professor Dr. Otto Kraus zu seinem 75. Geburtstag und 50. Promotionsjubiläum

Offener Brief an Professor Dr. Otto Kraus zu seinem 75. Geburtstag und 50. Promotionsjubiläum

Abstract

anniversary, Otto Kraus

Tagungsbericht zum 22. Europäischen Arachnologen-Kongress in Blagoevgrad

Tagungsbericht zum 22. Europäischen Arachnologen-Kongress in Blagoevgrad

Abstract

congress report

Spinnentiere in Afrika. Bericht vom 8. Afrikanischen Kolloquium der Arachnologie in Bloenfontein, Februar 2005

Spinnentiere in Afrika. Bericht vom 8. Afrikanischen Kolloquium der Arachnologie in Bloenfontein, Februar 2005

Abstract

congress report

Ein Spinnenkurs für Anfänger und Interessierte

23rd European Colloquium of Arachnology, Barcelona 2006

23rd European Colloquium of Arachnology, Barcelona 2006

Abstract

congress invitation

Arachnologische Mitteilungen 30, 2005

Arachnologische Mitteilungen 30, 2005