Spiders of the monitoring sites in the Siverskyi Donets River valley near Chuhuiv (Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine)

Nina Polchaninova

doi:10.15468/ysdrhy

Spiders of the monitoring sites in the Siverskyi Donets River valley near Chuhuiv (Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine)

Citation

Polchaninova N (2022). Spiders of the monitoring sites in the Siverskyi Donets River valley near Chuhuiv (Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine). Version 1.2. Ukrainian Nature Conservation Group (NGO). Occurrence dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/ysdrhy accessed via GBIF.org on 2024-12-15.

Description

The database includes records of 161 spider species in 18 families collected at the two monitoring sites located in the Siverskyi Donets river valley in the Chuhuiv Raion of the Kharkiv Oblast of Ukraine. This area is part of the Emerald Network site UA0000316 – Siverskyi Donets River valley in Kharkiv Oblast-1. A sandy area near the village of Kytsivka is distinguished as a priority conservation site Kytsivka Desert.

Sampling Description

Study Extent

Spiders were collected by hand, by pitfall trapping, and by sweep netting in floodplain habitats (meadows, forests, forest edges and glades) and on the sandy river terrace (man-planted pine forest, sandy steppe on gentile hills, and bare sands with sparse grass or single pines in the valley bottom). This dataset was prepared and published with the help of the Olin gGmbH foundation to preserve data on the biodiversity of Ukraine obtained by the Ukrainian scientists, who were forced to leave their homeland due to the war (Russia's invasion of Ukraine). Olin gGmbH is a funding organization for environmental protection and conservation that supports environmental and sociopolitical organizations.

Sampling

Ten pitfall traps were set in a line in each studied habitat. I used 250 ml plastic caps and arranged them at a distance of 10 m from each other. Sweep netting and hand collecting were carried out once a month on days of setting and checking traps. Both monitoring sites (Kytsivka Desert and Floodplain near Eskhar) were investigated in April – June 2009, the Kytsivka Desert was additionally sampled in May 2012 and September – October 2015. Geographical locations were indicated by GPS-navigator in decimal degrees according to the WGS 84 system. The nomenclature follows the World Spider Catalogue (WSC, 2022).

Quality Control

The author is fully responsible for the quality of data provided within the dataset.

Method steps

Field expeditions to the study sites.
Establishing a line of ten traps at a distance of 10 m at each study plot.
Regular checking of the traps.
Sweep netting conducted in the same habitats, tree samples of 25 double sweeps per plot; hand collecting.
Georeferencing with the help of GPS-navigator.
Species identification in the laboratory.
Organizing of a dataset according to Darwin Core standards.

Taxonomic Coverages

The dataset consists of records of spiders (class - Arachnida, order - Araneae).

Animalia
rank: kingdom
Arthropoda
rank: phylum
Arachnida
rank: class
Araneae
rank: order

Geographic Coverages

The study area is located near the villages of Kytsivka and Eskhar in the Chuhuiv Raion of the Kharkiv Oblast, Ukraine.

Bibliographic Citations

Polchaninova N.Yu. 2009. [A checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Kharkov Area (Ukraine)]. Visnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 9. No 856. 121–135 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013a. [Mustelikosa polovynchasta (Mustelicosa dimidiata (Thorell, 1875))] // Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. P.50 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013b. [Ksistikus monholskyi (Xysticus mongolicus Schenkel, 1863)] // Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. P.53 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2013c. [Slenus prykrashenyi Yllenus vittatus Thorell, 1875] // Chervona knyha Kharkivskoi oblasti. Tvarynnyi svit / Ed. H.О. Shandikov, Т.А. Atemasova. Chief Ed. V.А. Tokarsky. Kharkiv: KhNU im. V.N. Kаrazina. P.54 [in Ukrainian]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu. 2015. [Kytsivka sands as a refuge of the rare spider species (Aranei) of Kharkiv Region (Ukraine)]. Visnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 25. 196–199 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Prokopenko E.V. 2013. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arthropoda Selecta. Supplement No 2. Moscow, KMK Scientific Press. 268 p. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Prokopenko E.V. 2017. Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Addendum 1. 2013–2016. / (Ed. K.G. Mikhailov). Arthropoda Selecta. Supplement No 4. Moscow, KMK Scientific Press. 115 p. -
Polchaninova N.Yu., Slutsky A.I. 2013. [Addition to the annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Kharkov Region (Ukraine)]. Visnyk Kharkivskoho Natsionalnoho Unversitytu imeni V.N. Karazina. Ser. Biology. Vyp. 17. No 1056. P.120–128 [in Russian, with English summary]. -
World Spider Catalog (WOS). 2022. version 23.0 Bern: Natural History Museum. http://wsc.nmbe.ch (accessed 13.05.2022) -

Contacts

Nina Polchaninova
originator
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua

Nina Polchaninova
metadata author
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua

Oleksii Marushchak
programmer
position: junior researcher
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology NAS of Ukraine
Vul. B. Khmelnytskogo, 15
Kyiv
01030
UA
Telephone: +380964882670
email: ecopelobates@gmail.com
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Nina Polchaninova
administrative point of contact
position: Assistant professor
V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Svobody Sq. 4
Kharkiv
61027
Kharkiv
UA
email: n.polchaninova@karazin.ua