Table 1. Spider species recorded in the brood cells of Trypoxylon figulus.
Family | Species | Individuals | Shading index1 | |
Adults | Immatures | |||
Araneidae | Araneus angulatus Clerck, 1757 | 0 | 2 | na |
Araneus diadematus Clerck, 1757 | 0 | 1 | 0.38 | |
Araneus sp. | 7 | 82 | ||
Araniella cucurbitina (Clerck, 1757) | 47 | 0 | 0.44 | |
Araniella opisthographa (Kulczynski, 1905) | 18 | 0 | 0.54 | |
Araniella sp. | 17 | 88 | ||
Argiope bruennichi (Scopoli, 1772) | 1 | 132 | 0.24 | |
Araneus sturmi (Hahn, 1831) | 64 | 0 | 0.77 | |
Mangora acalypha (Walckenaer, 1802) | 588 | 7 | 0.30 | |
Nuctenea umbratica (Clerck, 1757) | 0 | 8 | 0.33 | |
undet. | 4 | 11 | ||
Linyphiidae | Floronia bucculenta (Clerck, 1757) | 1 | 6 | 0.40 |
Linyphia hortensis Sundevall, 1830 | 3 | 0 | 0.62 | |
Linyphia triangularis (Clerck, 1757) | 21 | 65 | 0.53 | |
Meioneta rurestris (C.L.Koch, 1836) | 8 | 0 | 0.25 | |
Microlinyphia pusilla (Sundevall, 1830) | 7 | 3 | 0.27 | |
Neriene radiata (Walckenaer, 1842) | 4 | 0 | 0.60 | |
Tenuiphantes tenuis (Blackwall, 1852) | 1 | 0 | 0.31 | |
undet. | 19 | 42 | ||
Salticidae | Heliophanus flavipes (Hahn, 1832) | 1 | 1 | 0.17 |
undet. | 1 | 0 | ||
Tetragnathidae | Metellina sp. | 1 | 39 | >0.50 |
Tetragnatha extensa (Linnaeus, 1758) | 22 | 7 | 0.30 | |
undet. | 2 | 27 | ||
Theridiidae | Anelosimus vittatus (C.L.Koch, 1836) | 1 | 0 | 0.28 |
Cryptachaea riparia (Blackwall, 1834) | 21 | 1 | 0.18 | |
Enoplognatha ovata (Clerck, 1757) | 158 | 34 | 0.46 | |
Enoplognatha sp. | 9 | 146 | ||
Neottiura bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767) | 2 | 0 | 0.26 | |
Parasteatoda lunata (Clerck, 1757) | 1 | 0 | 0.18 | |
Phylloneta impressum L. Koch, 1881 | 3504 | 2263 | 0.26 | |
Phylloneta sisyphia (Clerck, 1757) | 3 | 0 | 0.37 | |
Platnickina tincta (Walckenaer, 1802) | 6 | 0 | 0.50 | |
Theridion pinastri L. Koch, 1872 | 24 | 1 | na | |
Theridion varians Hahn, 1833 | 13 | 0 | 0.31 | |
Theridion sp. | 2 | 7 | ||
undet. | 12 | 15 | ||
Thomisidae | Philodromus cf. aureolus (Clerck, 1757) | 1 | 1 | na |
Philodromus cespitum (Walckenaer, 1802) | 0 | 1 | ||
undet. | 0 | 1 | na | |
Undetermined | 1 | 5 | ||
Total | 4595 | 2995 |
Niche positions range from 0 for the species with maximal preference for open habitats to 1 for the species with maximal preference for closed forest [45] (See Materials and methods for details). na: not available.