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A Zoogeographical Review of the Spiders (Araneae) of the Balkan Peninsula

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Balkan Biodiversity

Abstract

The Balkan Peninsula has an extremely rich and diversified invertebrate fauna. The group of spiders is characterised by considerable species richness and also by the presence of many endemics, both at the level of the genus and the species. The spider fauna has been comparatively well studied due to the efforts of many araneologists from different countries. The earliest data were published by workers such as: C.L. Koch, Lucas, Keyserling, L. Koch, Schiodte, Cambridge, Simon, Kulczynski, Pavesi, Nosek, Absolon, Roewer, Fage, Giltay, Wiehle, Stoichevich, Reimoser, Kolosvary, Kratochvil, Miller and Caporiacco. The first major work concerning the spiders of the region as a whole, however, was the work of Drensky (1936), who reported 1,066 species from 35 families in a review of all the currently available literature. Some years later Hadjissarantos (1940) compiled the currently available faunistic data on the spiders of continental Greece. More recently, Nikolic & Polenec (1981) combined the data concerning the spiders of Former Yugoslavia and estimated a total of 1,022 species for the region. More recent publications list the fauna of Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Macedonia, Montenegro and parts of Turkey (Brignoli, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1974a, 1974b, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1984, 1986; Deeleman-Reinhold, 1976, 1978, 1988, 1993; Deltshev, 1979a, 1979b, 1983a, 1983b, 1985, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1996, 1997a, 1997b; Deltshev & Blagoev, 2000; Deltshev & Curcic, 1997; Deltshev & Paraschi, 1990; Thaler, 1996; Thaler & Knoflach, 1991, 1993, 1995; Wunderlich, 1980, 1985, 1994a, 1994b, 1994c).

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  1. Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK

    Huw I. Griffiths

  2. Science and Research Centre Koper, University of Primorska, Slovenia

    Boris Kryštufek

  3. Slovenian Museum of Natural History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

    Boris Kryštufek

  4. Department of Geography, University of Hull, UK

    Jane M. Reed

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Deltshev, C. (2004). A Zoogeographical Review of the Spiders (Araneae) of the Balkan Peninsula. In: Griffiths, H.I., Kryštufek, B., Reed, J.M. (eds) Balkan Biodiversity. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2854-0_11

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