Crab Spider Lures Prey In Flowerless Neighborhoods [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2017 One fundamental question in prey luring systems is to understand how visual signals are interpreted by the receiver. Predators lure prey by falsely imitating the signal of a model, or may exploit sensory preferences of the receivers, which search for ...
Camila Vieira +4 more
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Large Butterfly Captured by Crab-Spider
Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 1907 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Wm. T. Davis
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Bassaniana birudis sp. nov., a new crab spider (Araneae, Thomisidae) from South Korea [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2021 The crab spider genus Bassaniana Strand, 1928 consists of six species mainly distributed in North America and Far East Asia. Two species of them, Bassaniana decorata (Karsch, 1879) and Bassaniana ora Seo, 1992, are known in Korea so far.A new crab spider,
Jae Seong Im +2 more
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Diversity, 2021 Crabs are important ecosystem engineers in marine habitats worldwide. Based on long-term data, we analyzed the species composition and infestation indices of epibionts and symbionts colonizing the great spider crab, Hyas araneus, and two lithodid crabs ...
Alexander G. Dvoretsky +1 more
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Two new species of crab spiders from Xiaolong Mountains in Gansu Province, China (Araneae, Thomisidae) [PDF]
ZooKeys, 2023 Two new species of crab spider are described from the Xiaolong Mountains in Gansu Province, China: Ebelingia spirala sp. nov. (♂♀) and Lysiteles longensis sp. nov. (♂♀).
Rui Zhang, Feng Zhang
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Spider movement, UV reflectance and size, but not spider crypsis, affect the response of honeybees to Australian crab spiders. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 According to the crypsis hypothesis, the ability of female crab spiders to change body colour and match the colour of flowers has been selected because flower visitors are less likely to detect spiders that match the colour of the flowers used as hunting
Ana L Llandres +1 more
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Species–specific crab predation on the hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa), subsequent crab mortality, and possible ecological consequences [PDF]
PeerJ, 2017 Here we report a unique trophic interaction between the cryptogenic and sometimes highly toxic hydrozoan clinging jellyfish Gonionemus sp. and the spider crab Libinia dubia.
Mary R. Carman +2 more
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DNA barcoding of the spider crab Menaethius monoceros (Latreille, 1825) from the Red Sea, Egypt
Journal of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, 2021 Background Most spider crab species inhabiting the Red Sea have not been characterized genetically, in addition to the variation and complexity of morphological identification of some cryptic species.
Mohamed Abdelnaser Amer
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SURVEY OF RUNNING CRAB SPIDERS PHILODROMIDAE (ARANEAE) OF ARMENIA
Bulletin of the Iraq Natural History Museum, 2021 Twelve species of philodromid crab or running crab spiders (Philodromidae) have been recorded in Armenia. Nine species are new to the spider fauna of this country: Philodromus cespitum (Walckenaer, 1802); Philodromus emarginatus ...
Noushig Zarikian
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A new species of Siamspinops Dankittipakul & Corronca, 2009 from Guizhou, China (Araneae, Selenopidae) [PDF]
Biodiversity Data Journal, 2023 The wall crab spider genus Siamspinops Dankittipakul & Corronca, 2009 contains eight species restricted to South and Southeast Asia, of which two are recorded from China.A new species, Siamspinops yejiei sp.
Cheng Wang, Jiahui Gan, Mi Xiaoqi
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