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First description of the male of Diaea mikhailovi (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Zootaxa, 2014The genus Diaea Thorell, 1869 contains 75 known species with the type species D. dorsata (Fabricius, 1777). It is distributed worldwide, and about half of the species currently assigned to this genus are found in Australasia (Platnick 2014). Four Diaea species have been recorded from China, D. subdola O. P.-Cambridge, 1885, D. suspiciosa O.
Guo, Chen-Hui, Zhang, Feng
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UV and Camouflage in Crab Spiders (Thomisidae)
2012Crab spiders are formidable predators of many insects. Their colour is particularly fascinating and we have an excellent account of the foraging ecology of some species. A more recent research focus has been the prevalence of UV reflection in some crab spider species.
Marie E. Herberstein +1 more
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First description of the female of Ozyptila utotchkini (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Zootaxa, 2008Ozyptila utotchikini Marusik in Marusik and Chevrizov (1990) was described from two male specimens from the Anuchino District of Maritime Province, Far East Russia. Since then it has also been reported from Sikhote-Alin’ Reserve (Marusik & Koponen 2001). Ozyptila utotchkini belongs to the Holarctic O.
Marusik, Yuri M., Omelko, Mikhail M.
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Evolution and maintenance of sociality in crab spiders (Thomisidae)
2020In this thesis I investigated factors that may explain the evolution and maintenance of sociality in crab spiders (Thomisidae). Group-living crab spiders differ from most other social spiders because they lack a capture web, a factor considered to be very important for the evolution of sociality in spiders.
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Prey capture by the crab spider Misumena calycina (Araneae: Thomisidae)
Oecologia, 1979Crab spiders Misumena calycina (L.) in pasture rose Rosa carolina flowers regularly attacked bumble bees, smaller bees, and syrphid flies that visited these flowers. Attacks reached a maximum rate of over 20/h during mid morning, but only 1.6% of the most important prey item, bumble bees, were captured.
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THE MALE OF XYSTICUS RUGOSUS (ARANEIDA: THOMISIDAE)
The Canadian Entomologist, 1969AbstractThe male of Xysticus rugosus Buckle and Redner, 1964, is described for the first time, the diagnostic parts of the palpus are drawn, and a key is provided for distinguishing the males of the Nearctic species of the Xysticus labradorensis group.
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On the study of the spectrum of victims of spiders of the Thomisidae family in Donetsk
7 species of spiders of the family Thomisidae belonging to 7 genera were observed on flowers in meadow and steppe vegetation in Donetsk city. The victims of crab spiders were 58 species of insects from 5 orders. Two-winged (23 species, 33,8 % of observations) and webworms (21 species, 55,0 %) dominated spider prey in terms of number of species and ...Prokopenko, E. V. +2 more
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