Check List 10(6): 1435-1444, doi: 10.15560/10.6.1435
Records of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Parque Estadual Mata São Francisco, Paraná, Brazil
João Lucas Chavari‡, Nikolas Gioia Cipola§, Antonio Domingos Brescovit‡‡ Instituto Butantan, Laboratório Especial de Coleções Zoológicas, Brazil§ Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia, Brazil
Corresponding author: João Chavari ( joao.chavari@butantan.gov.br ) © 2017 João Chavari, Nikolas Cipola, Antonio Brescovit. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation:
Chavari J, Cipola N, Brescovit A (2014) Records of Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Parque Estadual Mata São Francisco, Paraná, Brazil. Check List 10(6): 1435-1444. https://doi.org/10.15560/10.6.1435 |  |
Abstract
A list of spider species recorded from the Parque Estadual Mata São Francisco, Paraná, Brazil was compiled based on 7,942 specimens, of which 2,872 are adults (36.15%) and 5,071 are juveniles (63.85%). Adults were identified as belonging to 45 families, 140 genera and 209 species and morphospecies (101 nominal species and 108 morphotypes). Forty-one species were recorded for the first time from the state of Paraná, most of them belonging to Araneidae (14), Oonopidae (4), Theridiidae (4), and Uloboridae (3). Conifaber guarani Grismado, 2004 and Oonops nigromaculatus Mello- Leitão, 1944 were recorded for the first time from Brazil. These results place Paraná as the sixth state with the highest number of records of spiders from Brazil, currently 465 species. This study increases in 10% the number of species recorded from Paraná, and the Atlantic Forest fragment becomes one of the most well sampled areas in the state, with 20% of all known species in Paraná.
Keywords
inventory; spiders; Neotropical; biodiversity; Atlantic Forest; Paraná; Brazil