New and Interesting Records of Spiders (Araneae) from the Maritime Province of Russia

Abstract

Five families, eleven genera and fifteen species of spiders collected from the Maritime Province, Russia are listed, and their distribution is presented. Of these, one family, five genera and ten species new to the Russian fauna and fourteen species are newly recorded from this Province. The lycosid genus Triccosta Roewer 1960 is revalidated, diagnostic figures are given for Larinioides chabarovi (Bakhvalov 1981), and the taxonomy of the family Leptonetidae and of the linyphiid genus Arcuphantes Chamberlin & Ivie 1943 in Far East Asia is discussed. © 2002, Arachnological Society of Japan. All rights reserved.