Ponomarev A.V.1, Turbanov I.S.2,3, Shmatko V.Yu.1 2025. New data on the spider fauna (Aranei) of Volga Region, Russia // Arthropoda Selecta. Vol.34. No.3: 415–425 [in English].
¹ Federal Research Centre the Southern Scientific Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Chekhov str., 41, Rostov-on-Don 344006 Russia.
² Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, Borok, Yaroslavl Oblast 152742 Russia.
³ T.I. Vyazemsky Karadag Scientific Station – Nature Reserve of the RAS – Branch of A.O. Kovalevsky Institute of Biology of the Southern Seas of RAS, Nauki Street 24, Theodosia 298188 Crimea.
Alexander V. Ponomarev ponomarev1952@mail.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7448-0383
Ilya S. Turbanov turba13@mail.ru ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9441-2791
Vladimir Yu. Shmatko antijus@gmail.com ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8180-8543
doi: 10.15298/arthsel.34.3.14
ABSTRACT. The paper presents findings of 31 spider species in 10 families from Astrakhan, Volgograd, and Saratov Oblasts of Russia. Eratigena agrestis (Walckenaer, 1802), Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772), A. lobata (Pallas, 1772), Larinioides sclopetarius (Clerck, 1758), L. suspicax (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876), Gnaphosa lucifuga (Walckenaer, 1802), G. steppica Ovtsharenko, Platnick et Song, 1992, Nomisia aussereri (L. Koch, 1872), Sidydrassus shumakovi (Spassky, 1934), Allohogna singoriensis (Laxmann, 1770), Alopecosa cronebergi (Thorell, 1875), A. krynickii (Thorell, 1875), A. schmidti (Hahn, 1835), A. steppica Ponomarev, 2007, A. taeniopus (Kulczyński, 1895), Pardosa nebulosa (Thorell, 1872), Pholcus ponticus Thorell, 1875, and Titanoeca quadriguttata (Hahn, 1833) are first recorded from Saratov Oblast. Singa nitidula C.L. Koch, 1844, Clubiona pseudoneglecta Wunderlich, 1994, Arctosa cinerea (Fabricius, 1777), Pardosa nebulosa (Thorell, 1872), Phrurolithus festivus (C.L. Koch, 1835), and Crustulina sticta (O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1872) are first recorded from Astrakhan Oblast. The species A. krynickii has been found outside the Crimea, in the south part of Saratov Oblast and Volgograd Oblast, for the first time.
KEY WORDS: Araneae, new records, distribution, southern Russia.