Salticidae of Virginia
Location
Turner Gymnasium
Access Type
Campus Access Only
Start Date
4-17-2024 12:00 PM
End Date
4-17-2024 1:15 PM
College
Lynchburg College of Arts and Sciences
Department
Environmental Science
Keywords
Salticidae, Virginia
Abstract
Salticids (also known as Jumping Spiders) remain one of the most diverse and widespread families of Araneae. Due to lack of local study, little is known about their diversity in the state, even with the diverse arthropod fauna. This project aims to fill this deficit by creating the first comprehensive list of Salticidae in Virginia. This project was broken into two parts: a comprehensive literature review of Salticidae and digitization of specimens from the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) specimens. This project was done in collaboration with the VMNH under the mentorship of Dr. Kal Ivanov and Dr. Jackson Means.
For the first part of this project, records of Salticids specimens from literature were reviewed. This started by devising a list of known Salticids. This was done by using Peckhamia’s Salticidae of North America, Including Mexico (2012). Specimens from this paper found from Virginia were compiled on a spreadsheet. This list was used with the World Spider Catalog, a catalog of all known spiders across the world, which holds literature for each species of spider, to find literature of each species recorded in Virginia. If a spider was recorded in a paper found in Virginia, that paper was then recorded for that spider on the spreadsheet.
For the second part of the project, work was centered around digitization of VMNH specimens, along with an opportunity to do some field sampling at the Claytor Nature Center. For digitizing, specimens were loaned from the VMNH. Each specimen provides a label of information about the specimen including, family, genus, location found, date found, the specimen collector, and other information if provided. This information was then recorded on a spreadsheet to document the specimen.
Faculty Mentor(s)
Dr. Kal Ivanov Dr. Jackson Means
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Salticidae of Virginia
Turner Gymnasium
Salticids (also known as Jumping Spiders) remain one of the most diverse and widespread families of Araneae. Due to lack of local study, little is known about their diversity in the state, even with the diverse arthropod fauna. This project aims to fill this deficit by creating the first comprehensive list of Salticidae in Virginia. This project was broken into two parts: a comprehensive literature review of Salticidae and digitization of specimens from the Virginia Museum of Natural History (VMNH) specimens. This project was done in collaboration with the VMNH under the mentorship of Dr. Kal Ivanov and Dr. Jackson Means.
For the first part of this project, records of Salticids specimens from literature were reviewed. This started by devising a list of known Salticids. This was done by using Peckhamia’s Salticidae of North America, Including Mexico (2012). Specimens from this paper found from Virginia were compiled on a spreadsheet. This list was used with the World Spider Catalog, a catalog of all known spiders across the world, which holds literature for each species of spider, to find literature of each species recorded in Virginia. If a spider was recorded in a paper found in Virginia, that paper was then recorded for that spider on the spreadsheet.
For the second part of the project, work was centered around digitization of VMNH specimens, along with an opportunity to do some field sampling at the Claytor Nature Center. For digitizing, specimens were loaned from the VMNH. Each specimen provides a label of information about the specimen including, family, genus, location found, date found, the specimen collector, and other information if provided. This information was then recorded on a spreadsheet to document the specimen.