Latest documents http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/index/index/ Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:31:45 +0100 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:31:45 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/28989 The ‘Hesse collection’ of spiders (Araneae) and harvestmen (Opiliones) in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin is documented. Biographical notes on Erich Hesse – a former arachnid curator at the museum (1921–1940) – are provided. The ‘Hesse collection’ was actually put together by other workers, and can be broadly divided into two parts. One comes from Bielinek (= Bellinchen) on the Polish side of the Oder Valley (West Pommerania); now part of the ‘Unteres Odertal’ National Park. This Bielinek material includes notable records of Heriaeus oblongus Simon, 1918 and Gibbaranea ullrichi (Hahn, 1835). The other part of the collection comes from Colbitz-Letzlinger Heide in Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Notable here are Pistius truncatus (Pallas, 1772) and Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004; the latter representing the first record of this species for Saxony-Anhalt. Karl-Hinrich Kielhorn; Jason A. Dunlop; Corinna Steffensen article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/28989 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:31:45 +0100 http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/20592 The great raft spider, Dolomedes plantarius (Clerck, 1757), is a rare and endangered species in Germany and other European countries. Current data on its distribution and ecology are briefly reviewed. Five new (or overlooked) localities for this spider from the Spreewald-region of Brandenburg in eastern Germany are provided, together with an updated distribution map. One record, based on the authors’ own collections, is described and figured in detail, with the egg-carrying female discovered in reeds at the edge of a fairly large body of open water. Both direct and indirect protective measures for the habitats of this species in the Spreewald-region are recommended. Danilo Harms; Jason A. Dunlop; Karin Schütt article http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/20592 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:42:21 +0100