The spider (Araneae) records from the lowland and foothill arid parts of the Balkhash-Alakol Basin.
The territories of Almaty city and Talgar settlement (excluding their mountainous areas above 950 m a.s.l.) are also included, as they contain a significant number of records. The dataset contains original data recently collected by the staff of the Institute of Zoology of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The IZRK collection dataset includes 543 occurrences, collected and identified mainly during 2023–2025, with additional material from 2019–2022 also included. Almost all identifications were carried out primarily to the species level.
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part of the Balkhash-Alakol basin (SE Kazakhstan)\nThe surveyed territory lies within the administrative borders of the Almaty and Jetisu regions and partly includes the Karaganda and Jambyl regions of Kazakhstan (see the interactive map: https://rpubs.com/Sozontov/KZ_spiders). It covers lowland and foothill areas (up to 950 m a.s.l.), stretching from south to north—from the Zailiysky Alatau Mts and the middle reaches of the Ili River valley to Northern Balkhash—and from west to east, from the Chu-Ili Mts to the eastern shore of Lake Alakol (excluding the Dzhungarian Alatau Mts). The territories of Almaty city and Talgar settlement within the specified altitudinal range were also included in the study region, as they have the longest history of research and the highest number of records. 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The study was conducted using the Joint Usage Center «Instrumental methods in ecology» at the IEE RAS.
We thank all the employees of the Institute of Zoology who, in one way or another, participated in the collection of material. We are grateful to Dmitri Logunov (St. Petersburg, Russia) for confirming the identifications of Pseudomogrus guseinovi, Heriaeus mellotteei, Xysticus bakanas, and for comments on the findings of Alopecosa latifasciata and Lycosa tarantula in Kazakhstan. Anatoly Ozernoy sincerely thanks Dmitri Logunov for his constant consultations on spider identification. We thank Galina Azarkina (Novosibirsk, Russia) for the identification of Aelurillus andreevae on iNaturalist.
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