On some new and poorly-known Chrysillini from arid western South Africa (Araneae, Salticidae) [PDF]
African InvertebratesFollowing a rapid biodiversity assessment of spiders in the arid western interior of South Africa, we report on the occurrence of some poorly known and new species of chrysilline jumping spiders.
Charles Richard Haddad +1 more
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BMC Research Notes, 2010 Background Locomotor performance in ecologically relevant activities is often linked to individual fitness. Recent controversy over evolution of extreme sexual size dimorphism (SSD) in spiders centres on the relationship between size and locomotor ...
Taylor Phillip W +2 more
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Mating-induced sexual inhibition in the jumping spider Servaea incana (Araneae: Salticidae): A fast-acting and long-lasting effect. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Mating-induced sexual inhibition has been studied extensively as an important facet of many insect mating systems but remains little understood in spiders. Once mated, females of many spider species become unreceptive and aggressive toward males, but the
Vivian Mendez +2 more
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Convergent? Minds? Some questions about mental evolution [PDF]
, 2017 In investigating convergent minds, we need to be sure that the things we are looking at are both minds and convergent. In determining whether a shared character state represents a convergence between two organisms, we must know the wider distribution and
Cartmill, Matt
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NEW RECORDS ON SALTICIDAE AND THERIDIIDAE (ARANEAE) SPIDERS FROM ARMENIA
Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2022 New data on jumping spiders (Salticidae) and tangle-web spiders (Theridiidae) of Armenia are provided on the basis of recently collected specimens in various regions of Armenia.
Noushig Zarikian
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A review of the Nearctic jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of the subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico [PDF]
, 2002 The generic and specific composition ofthe Nearctic jumping spiders ofthe subfamily Euophryinae north of Mexico is reviewed, and the biogeographic affinities of the constituent groups are diagnosed.
Edwards, G. B.
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Cory thalia canosa (Araneae: Salticidae) reassigned to Anasaitis [PDF]
, 1999 Four species of Cory thalia C.L.Koch 1851 were reported by Richman & Cutler (1978) to occur in North America north of Mexico. Subsequently, one of these four species, C.
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First record of genus Siler Simon, 1889 (Araneae: Salticidae) from India
Journal of Threatened Taxa, 2015 The jumping spider Siler semiglaucus (Simon, 1901) has been newly reported from India, based on specimens studied from South India. These spiders were observed feeding on all life stages of Technomyrmex ants.
Siddharth Kulkarni, Sunny Joseph
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A new species of Trite Simon, 1885 (Araneae: Salticidae) from New Zealand, with remarks on Trite relationships and radiation [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 A species known from earlier behavioural studies as “Holoplatys sp.”, is described as Trite pollardi sp. nov. Within the genus Trite, two species groups are distinguished: the planiceps-group (found in New Caledonia, New Zealand, Lord Howe Island and ...
Barbara Patoleta, Marek Żabka
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