Ants (Formicidae) and Spiders (Araneae) listed from the Metropolitan Region of Salvador, Brazil

By

Melo, Tercio Da Silva
Peres, Marcelo Cesar Lima
Chavari, João Lucas
Brescovit, Antonio D.
Delabie, Jacques H. C. (Jacques Hubert Charles)

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2014-5-1

Original Publication

Check list : journal of species lists and distribution

Volume

10

Series / Issue

Issue: 2

Pages

355--365

Subjects

Ants , Araneae , Atlantic forest , Brazil , Formicidae , inventory , Salvador , Spiders

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

[São Paulo, Brazil] Luís Felipe Toledo 2005-

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15560/10.2.355

 

Abstract

We present an ant and spider species list from five localities of the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS). The MRS is placed in an Atlantic Forest area classified as dense broadleaf forest, considered to be of high biological importance and priority for conservation. We determined 198 species of ants (8 of these are considered to be synanthropic and/or exotic), distributed across nine subfamilies. We determined 164 species of spiders (14 of them being synanthropic and/or exotic), distributed across thirty families. Therefore, this survey shows that the urban environment of the MRS still harbors a large number of native fauna species.