A list of spiders in and around Mt.Shigi-san, in western Nara Prefecture.
Since April 21, 2002
Updated on March 3, 2015
SEKINE, Mikio
Summary
I checked out the spiders in and around Mt.Shigi-san,
in western Nara Prefecture from 1998 to 2005.
Residential areas spread out at the foot of Mt.Shigi-san. Therefore, the
black house spider, Badumna insignis, the species that usually inhabits
urban areas, is found there. The garden orb-web spider, Argiope bruennichii
and Neoscona adianta, and the orb weaving spider, genus
Cyrtarachne, are also found there because a series of terraced rice
paddies still remain there. And, it is a very interesting fact that a lot
of the garden orb-web spiders, Argiope boesenbergi, inhabit the area
near the rice paddies. Araneus uyemurai, Hyptiotes affinis,
Yaginumanis sexdentatus, and the scorpion-tailed spider, Arachnura
logio, species usually inhabit mountainous regions, and are found in
coppices in and around Mt.Shigi-san.
Nature in and around Mt.Shigi-san is just like a patchwork; in other words,
living things there inhabit all kinds of places.
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