Araneomorphae from Las Pozas Xilitla

Welcome

The Las Pozas inventory includes 2,233 images for 205 Araneomorphae morphospecies collected during four expeditions from 2011 to 2012. All specimens were collected inside a one-hectare plot of 25-35 year old remnant tropical forest. Sampling followed Coddington et al. 1991, 1996, 2009; Scharff et al. 2003; and Sörensen et al. 2002. For more information.

Locality data: Mexico, San Luis Potosi, Xilitla City, Las Pozas, 1 ha plot. Central coordinates 21.39722, -98.99389, Alt. 662 m. 2011-2012. Leg. Lab. Aracnologia FC-UNAM.

Publication and data

For more information, see:

Rivera-Quiroz F., Garcilazo-Cruz U. and Alvarez-Padilla F. 2016. Spider cyberdiversity (Araneae: Araneomorphae) in an ecotouristic tropical forest fragment in Xilitla, Mexico. Revista Mexicana de Biodiversidad 87: 1023-1032.

Click here to download the faunistic database in Excel format.

Appendix 1. The names Eutichuridae and Prodidomidae are inverted.
Phoroncidia sp01 = Chthonos sp01.
Acanthoctenus spiniger sp01 = Acanthoctenus sp01.
Ctenus sp01 = Ctenidae sp01.

We thank Pablo Pantoja for the Chthonos identification and Nicolas Hazzi for the correct identification of the ctenid species.

Acknowledgments

We thank the Xilitla Foundation and the directive of the Ecotouristic and Artistic Park Las Pozas for allowing this inventory. We also thank the arachnologists who helped with identifications, mentioned in each species page, and the Facultad de Ciencias students who participated: Uriel Garcilazo Cruz, Francisco Andrés Rivera Quiroz, Miguel Hernández Patricio, Francisco Javier Salgueiro Sepulveda, Diana Elena Alvarez Martínez, Rigel Sebastián González Contreras and Omar Caballero.

Funding was provided by CONACYT-SNI. Undergraduate student grants were provided by UNAM-DGAPA-PAPIIT project IN213612 and the Lake Side Fund through the CAS.

Picture caption: Left to right: Omar, Andrés, Uriel, Fernando, Rigel, Diana and Miguel.

Send comments and identifications to: fap@ciencias.unam.mx