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Online ISSN : 2319-7706 Issues : 12 per year Publisher : Excellent Publishers Email : editorijcmas@gmail.com / submit@ijcmas.com Editor-in-chief: Dr.M.Prakash Index Copernicus ICV 2018: 95.39 NAAS RATING 2020: 5.38 |
A study on biodiversity of agrobiont spiders was carried out at N. M. College of Agriculture, Navsari Agricultural University (NAU) campus Navsari, Gujarat, India. A total 48 species of agrobiont spiders were recorded belonging to 34 genera and 12 families from different ecosystems i.e., paddy, sugarcane, maize, mango and banana. Among them 33.33 per cent species belongs to family Araneidae, 29.17 per cent from Salticidae, 8.33 per cent species belongs to family Oxyopidae, 6.25 per cent species belongs to family Clubionidae, 4.17 per cent species belongs to Tetragnathidae, Sparassidae as well as Theridiidae of each, whereas remaining 2.08 per cent species from Thomisidae, Uloboridae, Lycosidae, Hersiliidae, and Scytodidae of each and prepared the pictorial checklist of 48 species of agrobiont spiders.