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Coloring with Spiders: Our Favorites from Florida
Florida has a rich diversity of spiders that vary greatly in body shape, size, color, hunting strategy, and habitat. While spiders are often feared, they are generally non-aggressive and provide essential ecosystem services, such as controlling pest ...
L. A. Taylor, Samm Wehman Epstein
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Predatory Encounters of Yllenus Arenarius (Araneae, Salticidae) with Flies (Diptera) [PDF]
Predatory behaviour of Yllenus arenarius hunting flies (Diptera) was studied. The general spider's approach and capture was typical for salticids hunting prey that has high ability to escape. Two modes of approach in close proximity of prey were observed.
Bartos, Maciej
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Revision of Helvetia (Araneae: Salticidae: Heliophaninae) [PDF]
The genus Helvetia Peckham & Peckham, 1894 is revised. The species H. zebrina Simon, 1901 and H. zonata Simon, 1901 are synonymized with H. cancrimana (Taczanowski, 1872). The species H. insularis (Banks, 1902) is synonymized with H. albovittata Simon, 1901.
Ruiz, Gustavo R. S.+1 more
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Phylogeny with introgression in Habronattus jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae)
Habronattus is a diverse clade of jumping spiders with complex courtship displays and repeated evolution of Y chromosomes. A well-resolved species phylogeny would provide an important framework to study these traits, but has not yet been achieved, in ...
Geneviève Leduc-Robert, W. Maddison
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Mitogenomes can provide information for phylogenetic analysis and evolutionary biology. The Araneae is one of the largest orders of Arachnida with great economic importance.
Zheng-Liang Wang+3 more
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Studies in Liocranidae (Araneae): a new afrotropical genus featuring a synapomorphy for the Cybaeodinae [PDF]
Cteniogaster, a new genus of small ground spiders is described from Kenya and Tanzania. It encompasses seven new species, three of which are known from both sexes: C. toxarchus sp. nov., the type species, C. conviva sp. nov. and C. hexomma sp. nov. Three
Bosselaers, Jan, Jocqué, Rudy
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Araneae Speluncarum Helvetia I
(Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
E Dresco, M Hubert
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First record of spider Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) from Belarus with notes on overwintering
First record of the spider Tegenaria ferruginea (Panzer, 1804) from Belarus, along with taxonomic diagnosis and photographs are presented. Contrary to the expectations, males and females were found during overwintering in the silken sac in the fort of ...
Tsiareshyna Maryia
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Spiders in Fauna Europaea : dual use of the database [PDF]
The history and current work of the project Fauna Europaea is outlined. The different sources used for building up the database and the efforts to keep it updated are described.
Helsdingen, Peter J. van
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Homing in the arachnid taxa Araneae and Amblypygi [PDF]
Adequate homing is essential for the survival of any animal when it leaves its home to find prey or a mate. There are several strategies by which homing can be carried out: (a) retrace the outbound path; (b) use a 'cognitive map'; or (c) use path integration (PI).
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