Ghatippuspaschima, a new species and genus of plexippine jumping spider from the Western Ghats of India (Salticidae, Plexippini, Plexippina). [PDF]
ZookeysAbstract We propose a new genus of plexippine jumping spiders from the Western Ghats of India based on the new species Ghatippuspaschimagen. et sp. nov.
Marathe K, Maddison WP, Kunte K.
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Lack of neophobic responses to color in a jumping spider that uses color cues when foraging (Habronattus pyrrithrix). [PDF]
PLoS One, 2021 Chemically defended prey often advertise their toxins with bright and conspicuous colors. To understand why such colors are effective at reducing predation, we need to understand the psychology of key predators.
Vickers ME, Heisey ML, Taylor LA.
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Predator mimicry: metalmark moths mimic their jumping spider predators. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2006 Cases of mimicry provide many of the nature's most convincing examples of natural selection. Here we report evidence for a case of predator mimicry in which metalmark moths in the genus Brenthia mimic jumping spiders, one of their predators.
Jadranka Rota, David L Wagner
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Hemipteran defensive odors trigger predictable color biases in jumping spider predators. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2020 Multimodal warning displays often pair one signal modality (odor) with a second modality (color) to avoid predation. Experiments with bird predators suggest these signal components interact synergistically, with aversive odors triggering otherwise hidden
Vickers ME, Taylor LA.
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Imperfect ant mimicry contributes to local adaptation in a jumping spider. [PDF]
iScience, 2023 Zeng H, Zhao D, Zhang Z, Gao H, Zhang W.
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Odor alters color preference in a foraging jumping spider. [PDF]
Behav Ecol, 2018 In many prey taxa with aposematic coloration, prey defenses also involve signals in other modalities (odors, sounds, etc.), yet the selective forces that have driven multimodality in warning displays are not well understood. One potential hypothesis that
Vickers ME, Taylor LA.
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Walking like an ant: a quantitative and experimental approach to understanding locomotor mimicry in the jumping spider Myrmarachne formicaria. [PDF]
Proc Biol Sci, 2017 Protective mimicry, in which a palatable species avoids predation by being mistaken for an unpalatable model, is a remarkable example of adaptive evolution.
Shamble PS, Hoy RR, Cohen I, Beatus T.
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Prolonged milk provisioning in a jumping spider
Science, 2018 Spider nursery Mammals produce milk to feed their offspring, and maternal care often continues well after the young can forage for themselves. Though other cases of milk-like secretions have been found, this combination of ongoing maternal care has ...
Zhanqi Chen +9 more
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Clarifying the phylogenetic placement of Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 (Araneae, Salticidae) with ultra-conserved element data [PDF]
ZooKeysThe subfamily Eupoinae Maddison, 2015 is an enigmatic group of minute leaf-litter-dwelling jumping spiders from Southeast Asia. Although previous molecular phylogenetic studies have suggested that it is one of the basal (non-salticine) lineages within ...
Junxia Zhang +4 more
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First record of the jumping spider Icius subinermis (Araneae, Salticidae) in Hungary
Arachnologische Mitteilungen, 2017 We report the first record of Icius subinermis Simon, 1937, one female, from Budapest, Hungary. We provide photographs of the habitus and of the copulatory organ.
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