Spider Fauna from Taebaeksan Mountain in Gangwon-do, Korea

Abstract

Spider fauna of Taebaeksan (Mt.) located in Taebaek City, Gangwon-do, as a serial work to understand spider fauna of Korean mountains, was surveyed provisionally between April and September in 1995. A total of 113 species of 83 genera in 27 families from 402 individuals of spiders were identified. Comparing the species richness of each family, there were 21 Araneid spiders (18.6%), followed by 12 Salticid spiders (10.6%), 11 Thomisid spiders (9.7%) and 10 Theridiid spiders (8.8%). Zoogeographically, spider fauna of Taebaeksan (Mt.) represented 2 cosmopolitan species (1.8%), and 6 holarctic region species (5.3%), 10 palearctic region species (14.2%) and 3 endemic species (2.7%). The result of this study provides an past collected inventory of mountain spiders and information regarding the region's biodiversity, and the results will not only become useful for the effective management and long-term use of national biological resources, but will also become a highly important data for the preservation of biodiversity based on changes in distribution, time and space.