Opportunistic egg feeding in the kleptoparasitic spider Argyrodes gibbosus

Ethology

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 160-170

  Pasquet, Alain ^a,b   Leborgne, Raymond ^a   Cantarella, Theresa ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGYRODES GIBBOSUS; ARANEAE; CYRTOPHORA CITRICOLA; THERIDIIDAE;

EGG PREDATION; KLEPTOPARASITISM; SPIDER;

ITALY, SICILY;

EID: 0030617055     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.1997.tb00015.x     Document Type: Article

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