Spiders of the Vine Plants in Southern Moravia

Abstract

Araneofauna of vineyards is relatively known in Central Europe but we have a lack of knowledge about araneofauna which occur directly on the vine plants. Our investigation was focused on spiders which live on vine plants, especially on the vine plants trunks. We investigated spiders in six vineyards in southern Moravia (Šatov, Mikulov, Popice, Morkůvky, Nosislav and Blučina). Vineyards were under diff erent soil management, traps were placed on diff erent parts of particular locality (terraced and plain) and all localities were under integrated pest management. We employed two types of cardboard traps for spider collecting during whole vegetation season. Altogether, we collected 21 spider species which belong to seven families. The most important species was Marpissa nivoyi (Lucas, 1836), which is mentioned in the Red List as vulnerable (VU) and Sibianor tantulus (Simon, 1868) which had unknown distribution in the Czech Republic. The other very interesting result is that the most common species is myrmecomorph Synageles venator (Lucas, 1836), which is scarcely recorded in such huge numbers as we documented in our study.

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“…The majority of spiders found on vine trunks (58%) were Salticidae (jumping spiders) with two dominant species, M. muscosa and the myrmecomorphic S. venator which has been previously identified as a dominant salticid in vineyards (Havlová et al, 2015). In total, 37% of jumping spiders tested positive for Pch, 18% were positive for Pm spp., and 6% were positive for Clo, and 9% of salticids carried both Pch and Pm spp.…”