The determination of spiders species in alfalfa areas in Southeast Anatolia Region

In this study, the spider fauna of alfalfa fields located in Mardin (Kiziltepe), Şanliurfa (Akcakale) were studied. During two years studies resulted in collection of 929 spiders samples representing 11 families, 25 genera and 30 species. Thanatus vulgaris Simon, 1870 ( Araneae: Philodromidae) was the most abundantly found species, consist 42.30 % of collected samples and this species was followed by Oxypes lineatus Latreille, 1806 (Araneae: Oxyopidae) (6.45%), Heliophanilus fulgens (O.P.-Cambridge, 1872) (Araneae: Salticidae) (4.95 %) and Hypsosinga pygmaea (Sundeval, 1831) (Araneae: Araneidae) (4.84 %) respectively. Among the obtained species, Micaria pallipes (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae), Pardosa italica Tongiorgi, 1966 (Araneae: Lycosidae) and Heliophanus decoratus L. Koch, 1875 (Araneae: Salticidae) are new records for spider fauna of Turkey