Diversity of spider family Sparassidae in Sugut Forest Reserve - Malaysian Agricultural Repository

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ABSTRACT

DIVERSITY _OF SPIDER FAMILY SPARASSIDAE

IN

SUGUT FOREST RESERVE

This study was carried out to see the species diversity of Sparassidae spider in Sugut (Beluran) Forest Reserue and construct pictorial dichotomous key for genus and species

level. This study has been done

in

the Sugut (Beluran) Forest Reserug Sabah. The samples were collected manually or by using 'hand-picking'method. A total of 81 spider specimen have been caught composed of two family (Sparassidae and Ctenidae), three genus (Heteropoda (74), Thelcticopis (two) and Pandecretes (three) and six species

of

spider (Heteropoda venatoria (19), Heteropoda tetrica (49), Heteropoda davidbowie

(one) Heteropoda boiei (five), Thelcticopis sp. ^(two) and Pandecretes sp. (three)). The

diversi$ of Sparassidae spider was at low level based on the value of Shannon-Weiner

diversity index that

is

1.0862. The dichotomous key

for

family Sparassidae was constructed with the picture of every chosen character. The characters that have been used in this key are such as the size of the anterior eyg paXern on the abdomen and color of chelicerae. As the conclusion, both of the objectives have been achieved and further research such as this needs to be continued to gather more nformation on spiders of Sabah.

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