Spiders of the Udmurt Republic, Russia 2021

Artëm Sozontov

doi:10.15468/nvzbxq

Spiders of the Udmurt Republic, Russia 2021

Citation

Sozontov A (2022). Spiders of the Udmurt Republic, Russia 2021. Version 1.8. Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/nvzbxq accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-14.

Description

The dataset is based on the results of a long-term project, Spiders of the Udmurt Republic (2007–2018), with some additional data. Samples come from 53 geographical points providing about 10 500 records in the dataset with more than 35 000 specimens recorded. The dataset can help to explore regional fauna, regional and general species distribution, their monitoring, conservation, phenology, and relations with biotic and abiotic conditions.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

The dataset includes spider (order Araneae) species occurrences within administrative borders of the Udmurt Republic. The studied region is placed on the East of the Russian Plain, near Middle Urals, and belongs to the southern taiga and mixed forests subzones. The collection contains material picked up during 12 years, from 2007 to 2018. The collection had been carried out for 12 years: from 2007 to 2018. Typical seasonal coverage is from May to September, with a few exceptions. The total ratio of years and months is provided bellow. Years, %: 2007 - 1, 2008 - 1, 2009 - 2, 2010 - 1, 2011 - 9, 2012 - 11, 2013 - 9, 2014 - 7, 2015 - 4, 2016 - 19, 2017 - 27, 2018 - 9. Months, %: May - 6, June - 52, July - 25, August - 14, September - 2, October to April - 1. There are a total of 53 observed sampling places, collapsing to 21 types of biotopes: Floodplain oak forests, Riverain deciduous forest strips, Watershed lime-forests, Pine forests, Spruce-fir forests, Dark coniferous forests with lime, Floodplain steppificated meadows, Bottomland meadows, Upland meadows, Sloping steppificated meadows, Edges of deciduous forests, Edges of mixed forests, Edges of pine-forests, Open raised bogs, Forested raised bogs, Open lake/pond shores, Open river banks, Alder grove, Heated dwellings, Unheated premises, Agrocoenosis.

Sampling

Field studies were carried out using commonly accepted methods: lines of pitfall traps, entomological net, litter sifting, and manual collecting [Tyshchenko, 1971; Woodcock, 2005; Oliger, 2010]. Plastic cups with 7 cm diameter served as pitfall traps and 4% acetic acid with a pellet of surface-active substance as killing and preserving agents. Traps lines included 5 to 15 ones, with a spacing of 3 m. Aside from own materials, the dataset involves purposeful collections of S.V. Shirobokova, K.S. Tatarkin, E.S. Shirobokova, A.V. Uskova, and S.V. Dedyukhin, and specimens occasionally collected by other colleagues, listed as legit collectors in the "recordedBy" DarwinCore column.

Quality Control

All collected spider specimens are wet-preserved in 70% alcohol. Stored material is shared between the Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE UB RAS, Ekaterinburg, prevailing part), Perm State University (Perm), Udmurt State University (Izhevsk), Zoological Museum of the Moscow State University (Moscow). The majority of the material has identification to species level (71 %), another part – to genus level (29 %, primarily juveniles). Species identification was performed mainly by the author; about 10% of specimens were cross-checked or identified by prof. S.L. Esyunin (Perm). Taxonomy nomenclature complies with the World Spider Catalog (WSC, 2021).

Method steps

The dataset is not a part of any repeated projects.

Taxonomic Coverages

The array of data is devoted to spiders (order Araneae) entirely and includes 403 exact spider species of 181 genus and 26 families. Additionally, there are three specimens of Archaeodictyna (Dictynidae), Decipiphantes (Linyphiidae), and Theridiosoma (Theridiosomatidae) genus with unclear species status and required further taxonomic investigations. Stored or only registered specimens have the age-sex distribution: males (40 %), females (28 %), subadult spiders (11 %), juveniles (21 %).

Araneae Clerck, 1757
common name: Araneae rank: order

Geographic Coverages

All collecting points are limited by administrative borders of the Udmurt Republic, one of the federal subjects of the Russian Federation. Being 42 000 km^2 of area, it extends 300 km in North-South direction and 200 km in West-East one. The studied region belongs to the East of the Russian plain, borders with the western piedmont of the Ural Mountains, and is situated in the interstream area of the Vyatka and Kama rivers [Illarionov, 2009]. Relief of the republic can be defined as a hilly plain. Regional altitudes lay within 52 and 333 m above sea level [Podsosova, 1972]; collecting points lay between 61 and 254 meters. The territory belongs to southern taiga (1/3) and mixed forests (2/3) subzones. The Southernmost area is under the intense influence of the forest-steppe, which reflects on spider fauna notably [Shadrin, 1999; Baranova et al., 2010].

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Artëm Sozontov
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position: researcher
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE UB RAS)
8 Marta, 202
Ekaterinburg
620144
RU
Telephone: +79199065784
email: A.N.Sozontov@gmail.com
homepage: https://ipae.uran.ru/Sozontov_AN
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Artëm Sozontov
metadata author
position: researcher
Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE UB RAS)
8 Marta, 202
Ekaterinburg
620144
RU
Telephone: +79199065784
email: A.N.Sozontov@gmail.com
homepage: https://ipae.uran.ru/Sozontov_AN
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-6629

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Institute of Plant and Animal Ecology (IPAE UB RAS)
8 Marta, 202
Ekaterinburg
620144
RU
Telephone: +79199065784
email: A.N.Sozontov@gmail.com
homepage: https://ipae.uran.ru/Sozontov_AN
userId: http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4297-6629