A Preliminary Checklist of the Spiders of Kosovo (Arachnida: Araneae)

The Republic of Kosovo is the territory with the least known spider fauna within the Balkans. The present list of spiders is based on all published records available to the authors and also includes original unpublished data. The checklist comprises only 159 species belonging to 29 families and 108 genera. This low number is due to different reasons but mostly because the spiders herein has never been studied in their entirety and because we excluded all the records from the “Balkans”, “Yugoslavia”, “Serbia”, and the border mountain “Kopaonik”, for which cannot certainly be argued that relate to Kosovo, so we worked only with reports, containing reliable data on the spider fauna from there. The aim of this study is to presents annotated preliminary checklist of the spiders of Kosovo with additional faunistic data.