Title of article
Recording some spider species in Al- Najaf, Iraq
Author/Authors
H. Mizhir, Aliaa Department of Ecology and Pollution - Faculty of Science - University of Kufa - Iraq
Pages
5
From page
849
To page
853
Abstract
A total of 93 Individuals of wild spiders were collected from June through September 2019, from different regions of Al-Najaf Province, Iraq. Five spider species were recorded, four belong to Araneae order: Plexippus paykulli (Audouin, 1825), Habronttus aestus Maddison, sp. n., Artema doriae (Thorell, 1881) and Loxosceles rufescens (Dufour 1820). One species belonging to order Solifugae is Galeodes arabs C.L. Koch, 1842. This is the first record of species H. aestus in Iraq. The results also showed that the highest rate of the appearance of H. aestus was 61.3%, while the lowest belonged to G. arab (4%).
Keywords
Araneae , Solifugae , First record , Habronttus aestus , Iraq
Journal title
Caspian Journal of Environmental Sciences (CJES)
Serial Year
2022
Record number
2730656
Link To Document