RURAL SPIDER BIODIVERSITY ECOSYSTEMS DWELLINGS AS PROTECTING REFUGES TO IN NILE DELTA AGRO- | ||
| Journal of Plant Protection and Pathology | ||
| Article 1, Volume 27, Issue 11, November 2002, Pages 7729-7736 PDF (6.38 M) | ||
| Document Type: Original Article | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jppp.2002.256020 | ||
| Authors | ||
| A. M. Husseln; H. M. EI-Nenaey; Hanaa M. EI-Khateeb; H. K. EI-Hennawy | ||
| Plant Protection Research Institute, Agriculture Research, Giza, Egypt. | ||
| Abstract | ||
| The visual search and hand picking sampling method was used to collect a total of 168 individuals representing 12 families of spiders from dwellings of 3 villages in Menoufiya Govemorate. The dominant families were : Salticidae 47 % of the studied collected spiders, followed by Theridiidae and Pholcidae 13 %, Agelenidae 6.6 % and Miturgidae 6 %. The identified species of these families were: Hasarius adansoni and Plexippus paykulli (Sa!ticidae), Theridion spp. (Theridiidae), Tegenaria spp. (Agelendiae). The rare families obtained in this study were :Philodromidae, Oecobiidae, Pisauriade and Filistatidae which represented by one or two individuals. Four families of spiders were only found in dwellings habitat: Pholcidae, Pisauridae, Oecobiidae and Filistatidae. Eight families of spiders occurred in both habitats, dwellings and agroeco-systems, with considerable differences in percentages of occurence. Hence farmer houses could be considered as protecting refuges to spiders against ecological impacts such as intensive use of pesticides .. | ||
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