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NEW LOCALITY OBSERVED OF SPIDERS WITH DESCRIPTIONS FROM SOUTH INDIA

Selvaraj Selvamurugan*, Usha Balasubramanian, Vasanthi. K

Spiders form the seventh largest animal order in terms of numbers of known species and are common predatory arthropods in all terrestrial and many aquatic ecosystems. This is the most diverse, female?dominated and entirely predatory order in the arthropod world. In this paper we record the presence of five rare spider species namely are Anarrhotus fossulatus, Cyclosa insulana, Philodromus vulgaris, Philodromus rufus, Tamopsis brisbanensis and one phasmidae species (stick insect) recorded from five falls in coutrallam, Tamilnadu state, India.