Prey preferences and visual discrimination ability of Cyrba Algerina, an araneophagic jumping spider (araneae: salticidae) with primitive retinae

Israel Journal of Zoology

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 227-242

  Jackson, Robert R ^a   Li, Daiqin ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

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