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CAS Madagascar Project
-1st Expedition
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-Madagascar Cerambycidae
-Madagascar Neuropterida
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CAS Gulf of Guinea Islands

-Arthropod Surveys on
  Bioko, Equatorial Guinea

 -Flies - Diptera
 -Carabidae
 -Spiders - Aranea


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Photo by: Dong Lin
Uduba sp. (Zorocratidae)

SPIDERS RECORDED FROM MADAGASCAR

By V. D. Roth, D. Silva Davila, D. Ubick, and C.E. Griswold


complete synonymies and references at Platnick, N. I. 2003. The world spider catalog, version 3.5. American Museum of Natural History, online at:
http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html

 

In progress, version June 2003


As with many other groups of plants and animals, the spider fauna of Madagascar is most interesting to a biologist.There is a high degree of endemism and the faunal composition is quite different from that in other parts of the world. For instance, the family Halidae is restricted to Madagascar, and Gallieniellidae is largely restricted to this island. Migidae has an endemic subfamily, and Pisauridae (fishing spiders), Heteropodidae (giant crab spiders) and Zorocratidae are very well represented. The family Thomisidae has many endemic genera. Archaeidae are best represented here, as well as having the largest species here.

The classification follows PLATNICK, N.I.  1997.   Advances in spider taxonomy, 1992-1995: with redescriptions 1940-1980.  New York Entomological Society, 976 pp., except where it is modified to reflect the changes suggested in GRISWOLD, C.E., J.A. CODDINGTON, N. PLATNICK, and R. FORSTER.  1999.   Towards a phylogeny of entelegyne spiders (Araneae, Araneomorphae, Entelegynae).   J. Arachnol., 27:53-63.Below is a list of species known to occur in Madagascar, although certainly with additional collecting further species will be added to this list. A name in parentheses preceded by an equal sign represents a junior synonym.  Not all original descriptions have been consulted yet.


MYGALOMORPHAE

BARYCHELIDAE

CYRTAUCHENIIDAE

DIPLURIDAE

IDIOPIDAE

MIGIDAE

NEMESIIDAE

THERAPHOSIDAE

 


ARANEOMORPHAE

AGELENIDAE

ANAPIDAE

ARANEIDAE

ARCHAEIDAE

CLUBIONIDAE

CORINNIDAE

CTENIDAE

CYATHOLIPIDAE

DEINOPIDAE

DESIDAE

DICTYNIDAE

ERESIDAE

FILISTATIDAE

GALLIENIELLIDAE

GNAPHOSIDAE

HAHNIIDAE

HALIDAE

HERSILIIDAE 

LINYPHIIDAE

LIOCRANIDAE

LYCOSIDAE

MIMETIDAE

MITURGIDAE

MYSMENIDAE

NESTICIDAE

OCHYROCERATIDAE

OECOBIIDAE

OONOPIDAE

OXYOPIDAE

PALPIMANIDAE

PHILODROMIDAE

PHOLCIDAE

PHYXELIDIDAE

PISAURIDAE

PRODIDOMIDAE

SALTICIDAE  salticid-A.jpg (8745 bytes)

SCYTODIDAE

SEGESTRIIDAE

SELENOPIDAE

SICARIIDAE

SPARASSODAE

STIPHDIIDAE

SYMPHYTOGNATHIDAE

TELEMIDAE

TETRABLEMMIDAE

TETRAGNATHIDAE tetragnathid-A.jpg (8735 bytes)   

THERIDIIDAE

THERIDIOSOMATIDAE

THOMISIDAE

TROCHANTERIIDAE

ULOBORIDAE

ZODARIIDAE

ZOROCRATIDAE zorocratid-A.jpg (8502 bytes) 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY


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