TY - JOUR T1 - The spiders of Pirin Mountain (Bulgaria). Taxonomic, faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. (Araneae) JF - Berichte des Naturwissenschaftlich-Medizinischen Vereins in Innsbruck Y1 - 1997 A1 - Deltshev, Christo A1 - Blagoev, Gergin SP - 269 EP - 286 KW - [Bulgaria / / Pirin Mountain]. KW - [Zoogeography / / Zoogeographical categories of altitudinal belts] KW - Araneae (Arachnida). KW - Araneae [Community structure / / Distributional species complexes KW - Distribution within habitat KW - Ecology KW - Eurasia KW - Europe KW - Habitat KW - Land zones KW - mountain zones] [Vertical distribution / / ] [Mountain habitat / / ] KW - Palaearctic region KW - Terrestrial habitat KW - Zoogeography AB - 321 species (Atypidae 1, Scytodidae 1, Pholcidae 2, Segestriidae 1, Dysderidae 3, Mimetidae 1, Eresidae 1, Theridiidae 21, Linyphiidae 80, Tetragnathidae 9, Araneidae 23, Lycosidae 33, Pisauridae 1, Agelenidae 18, Hahniidae 3, Dictynidae 5, Amaurobiidae 3, Titanoecidae 1, Oxyopidae 2, Anyphaenidae 1, Liocranidae 4, Clubionidae 16, Zodariidae 2, Gnaphosidae 26, Heteropodidae 1, Philodromidae 15, Thomisidae 22, Salticidae 25) have been found on Pirin mountain. They are best represented in the forest (montane coniferous belt - 269, 83.8%, montane-deciduous belt -232, 72.3%) and in the subalpine belt (101, 31.5%). In the other belts spiders are present in roughly equal proportions (submediterranean -38, 11.8%, alpine -35, 10.9%, submontane -33, 10.3%). Most characteristic is the high mountain species complex, which comprises most endemics and ancient elements, some of which are also distributed in the montane zone. Most of these elements can be regarded as neoendemics and derivatives of their respective Holarctic, Palaearctic and European sister species, which have speciated due to disjunction of ranges during the Pleistocene. A few species can be considered as remnants of an ancient mediterranean mountain fauna. So Pirin mountain can be considered as a possible centre of speciation. VL - 84 SN - 0379-1416 UR - ://ZOOREC:ZOOR13400060346 N1 - ZOOR13400060346 ER -