An Optimised Spider-Inspired Soft Actuator for Extraterrestrial Exploration [PDF]
BiomimeticsExtraterrestrial exploration presents unique challenges for robotic systems, as traditional rigid rovers face limitations in stowage volume, traction on unpredictable terrain, and susceptibility to damage. Soft robotics offers promising solutions through
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Design of Gas Turbine Cooling System Based on Improved Jumping Spider Optimization Algorithm
Machines, 2022 The gas turbine cooling system is a complex MIMO system with a strong coupling, nonlinear, time-varying and large disturbance amplitude. In order to automatically control the target flow, target temperature and pipeline pressure, in this paper, the ...
Tianyi Li, Yanmei Liu, Zhen Chen
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Regal Jumping Spider, Phidippus regius C. L. Koch (Arachnida: Salticidae)
EDIS, 2003 Except for two pantropical species (Edwards 1979), the jumping spider most frequently encountered in Florida is Phidippus regius C.L. Koch. This species is aptly named in terms of its size, as it is the largest jumping spider in eastern North America ...
Glavis B. Edwards
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A new species of Langelurillus Próchniewicz, 1994 (Araneae, Salticidae, Aelurillina) from western India [PDF]
Evolutionary Systematics, 2022 A new jumping spider species, Langelurillus tertius sp. nov. (♂♀), is described from the Ajanta and Sathmala hill ranges of the Deccan plateau in Maharashtra (India).
Rajesh V. Sanap, John T.D. Caleb
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Jumping spider invades an orb web to prey on a resident male
Ecosphere, 2023 While surveying operational sex ratios of the giant golden orb weaver Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793) in Singapore, we documented a stunning case of predatory behavior of a jumping spider Viciria pavesii Thorell, 1877. A female V.
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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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Rapid mid-jump production of high-performance silk by jumping spiders [PDF]
Current Biology, 2021 Jumping spiders (Salticidae) do not rely on webs to capture their prey, but they do spin a silk dragline behind them as they move through their habitat. They also spin this dragline during jumps, continuously connecting them with the surface they leapt from.
Ava, Chen, Kris, Kim, Paul S, Shamble
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Visual prey categorization by a generalist jumping spider
The European Zoological Journal, 2022 The majority of jumping spiders are visual hunters that capture a wide range of prey. While they are known to use specific predatory techniques against different prey, their prey identification mechanisms are poorly understood.
Maciej Bartos
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Phylogenetic, ecological and morphological characteristics reveal two new spider-associated genera in Clavicipitaceae [PDF]
MycoKeys, 2022 Clavicipitaceous fungi are pathogenic to scale insects, white flies and other insect orders. However, a few species are spider-associated. Two new genera from China, Neoaraneomyces and Pseudometarhizium, are described based on phylogenetic, ecological ...
Wan-Hao Chen +5 more
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Pancorius guiyang sp. nov., a new species of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae) from Guizhou Province, China [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 Pancorius Simon, 1902 is a relatively large genus of jumping spider family Salticidae and currently contains 42 valid species that are mainly distributed in South East Asia, 11 of which are recorded from China.A new spider species of the genus Pancorius ...
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