Department of Agricultural Entomology, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru College of Agriculture and Research Institute, Karaikal - 609 603, Puducherry, India
*Corresponding author's E-mail: raghulsubasekaran@gmail.com
Online Published on 11 October, 2022.
The spiders were collected using in situ counts, net sweeping, pitfall traps, litter sampling and bark trap collection methods. A total of 79 spider species with 56 genera under 17 families were noted. The spider family Salticidae was found to be with high relative abundance during kharif 2019 (21.98%) and rabi 2019–20 (24.09%) than any other spider families. The biodiversity indices were worked out, such as Shannon-Weiner Index (3.31- kharif and 3.65- rabi), Simpson Index (0.94- kharif and 0.96- rabi), Margalef Index (9.61- kharif and 11.4- rabi) and Pielou's Index (0.054- kharif and 0.049- rabi).
Biodiversity indices, Kharif, Rabi, Relative abundance, Spider diversity
