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Brown Spider (Loxosceles genus) Venom Toxins: Tools for Biological Purposes
Toxins, 2011 Venomous animals use their venoms as tools for defense or predation. These venoms are complex mixtures, mainly enriched of proteic toxins or peptides with several, and different, biological activities.
Andrea Senff-Ribeiro +11 more
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Cyrtophora citricola (Araneae: Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae), a first record for Turkey [PDF]
, 2012 We recorded the tent-web spider Cyrtophora citricola (Forsskål, 1775) (Araneidae: Cyrtophorinae) from Turkey for the first time at two sites. Body measurements and a brief description of the female are presented, as well as information on the sites ...
Elverici, Mert +3 more
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Wolf spiders of the Pacific region: the genus \u3ci\u3eZoica\u3c/i\u3e (Araneae, Lycosidae) [PDF]
, 2009 The wolf spider genus Zoica Simon 1898 is currently known only from the Indo-Australasian region, including India in the west to northern Western Australia and Papua New Guinea in the east.
Beatty, Joseph A. +2 more
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Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae)
EDIS, 2003 The huntsman spider, Heteropoda venatoria (L.), sometimes called the giant crab spider or the banana spider (due to its occasional appearance in marketed bananas), is a cosmotropical species introduced into and now occurring in the U.S., in subtropical ...
Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.
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Ibn Al-Haitham Journal for Pure and Applied Sciences, 2023 This study presented the first recorded of the banded garden spider Argiope trifasciata and described for the first time in Baghdad city, Iraq. The specimens were collected from Al-Rashidiya sub-district north of Baghdad city on 26/ November/ 2021 (7 ...
Hala G. Noori, Zeina N. Al-Azawii
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The influence of camouflage and prey type on predatory decisions of jumping spider [PDF]
, 2013 Decisions made by predators during predatory encounters are often based on multiple factors that may influence the outcome of the encounters. For stalking predators their visibility to the prey and the ability of their prey to escape may be important ...
Bartos Maciej
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Brown spiders (Loxosceles) are taking hold in Pernambuco, Brazil: a case series, 2018-2022 [PDF]
Epidemiologia e Serviços de SaúdeObjective To describe accidents involving brown spider (genus Loxosceles) bites notified by the Pernambuco Poison Information and Care Center (CIATox-PE), Brazil, from January 2018 to December 2022.
Maria Lucineide Porto Amorim +5 more
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The Thomisidae and Philodromidae (Arachnida: Araneae) of the Galápagos Islands (Ecuador) [PDF]
, 2013 Two new species of Thomisidae are described (Mecaphesa reddelli sp. nov. and Tmarus galapagosensis sp. nov.). Of a third species, Mecaphesa inclusa (Banks, 1902), three colour variations are described.
Baert, Léon
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Toxicon: X, 2020 Spiders use their venom for defence and to capture prey. These venoms contain a cocktail of biologically active compounds that display several different biological activities, such as large molecules and small molecules including peptides, proteins ...
Pornsawan Khamtorn +6 more
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An unusual preparation of an eighteenth-century spider and its consequences [PDF]
, 2014 Investigation into an eighteenth-century spider in the collection of The Hunterian Museum, Glasgow, revealed an unusual and intriguing mounting method for a natural history specimen.
Brown, Georgina, Hancock, E. Geoffrey
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