Spider Fauna (Araneae) of the Low Arctic Belcher Islands, Hudson Bay

• Published in: ARCTIC
• Main Author: Koponen, Seppo
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Arctic Institute of North America 1992
• Subjects: Animal distribution; Animal ecology; Animal taxonomy; Spiders; Baffin Island; Nunavut; Belcher Islands; Arctic; Belcher; Canada; Flaherty Island; Fosse; Greenland; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Arctique*; Baffin; Groenland; Territoires du Nord-Ouest; toundra; Tundra; Siberia
• Online Access: https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/64469

Thirty-three species of spiders were found on the low arctic Belcher Islands (on Flaherty Island), N.W.T., Canada in southeastern Hudson Bay (about 56 degrees N, 79 degrees W). Eight families were represented; 23 species belonged to Linyphiidae (s. lat.) and 4 to Lycosidae. The most abundant and fre...