Spider biodiversity in connection with the vegetation structure and its surrounding soil

Abstract EN

Spider activity occurred in four ornamental plants was assessed for a whole year using pitfall traps for ground spiders and sweeping net for vegetation or aerial spiders.

A total of 456 individuals of ground and aerial spiders were collected.

They belonged to 38 species, 38 genera of 7 families.

Family Lycosidae was found the dominant recorded 158 individuals (61.9%) of ground spider, while family Salticidae of the aerial spiders recorded 70 individuals (33.3%) of the total aerial collected spiders.

By using shannon wiener and simpson indices, results revealed that species diversity were high under Plumbago shrubs for ground spider while the highest diversity of aerial spiders was recorded on red acalypha shrubs.

Monthly fluctuation of the total number of spiders should high population between May to August for ground spiders and in August to September for aerial spiders.