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Crab Spider Lures Prey In Flowerless Neighborhoods
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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Checklist of spider fauna of FR Peshawar, FATA, Pakistan [PDF]
The spiders are known as poisonous arthropods, but they also act as the predator or biological pests control agent. Their 23 species belonging to 15 genera and 09 families were reported during 2009-2010 from FR Peshawar, FATA, Pakistan.
F. Perveen, A. Jamal
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A new species of Siamspinops Dankittipakul & Corronca, 2009 from Guizhou, China (Araneae, Selenopidae) [PDF]
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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A Spiny Orb Weaver Spider, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Araneidae)
One of the more colorful spiders in Florida is a spiny orb weaver, Gasteracantha cancriformis (Linnaeus) 1767. Although not as large as some of the other common orb weavers (e.g., Argiope, Levi 1968; Neoscona, Edwards 1984), the combination of color ...
Glavis B. Edwards, Jr.
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Huntsman Spider, Heteropoda venatoria (Linnaeus) (Arachnida: Araneae: Sparassidae)
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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The dark-red spider mite, Tetranychus ludeni Zacher (Acari: Tetranychidae): A new pest in Serbian acarofauna [PDF]
The dark-red spider mite, Tetranychus ludeni Zacher (Acari: Tetranychidae), is a highly polyphagous species and an important pest of economic plants belonging to the families Cucurbitaceae, Malvaceae, Fabaceae and Solanaceae, and growing in tropical and ...
Marić Ivana +2 more
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Some morphometric and biological characteristics of a European spider crab, Maja squinado (Herbst, 1788) caught off Aksaz region, (Biga, Çanakkale, Türkiye) were investigated. In addition, an epizoic species infesting this M.
Seçil ACAR, Yusuf ŞEN
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Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932 new to mainland Italy (Araneae, Thomisidae) [PDF]
Xysticus grallator Simon, 1932 is a little-known species of crab spider distributed in the western Mediterranean region. We present new records of this species from mainland Italy, together with images of living and preserved specimens, the copulatory ...
Tobias Bauer +2 more
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Heartbeat sensors under pressure: a new method for assessing hyperbaric physiology [PDF]
Non-invasive heartbeat sensors to measure the cardiac activity of crustaceans have been adapted for use under hyperbaric conditions. Able to record data continuously over long timescales, these sensors can collect high-resolution data on the ...
Thatje, S. +5 more
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A new spider crab, Eoinachoides bretoni n. sp. (Epialtidae MacLeay, 1838) from the Comfort Member of the Castle Hayne Formation (Eocene) of Onslow County, North Carolina (USA), is herein described, representing the second spider crab recovered from this ...
Pasini, Giovanni +5 more
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