Spider-Eating Spiders

American Scientist

Volumn 86, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 350-357

  Jackson, Robert R ^a,b,c   Wilcox, R Stimson ^d,e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COURTSHIP BEHAVIOUR; FORAGING; LEARNING BEHAVIOUR; MIMICRY; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; PORTIA; SALTICIDAE;

EID: 0031710969     PISSN: 00030996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Trade Journal    
DOI: 10.1511/1998.4.350     Document Type: Article

References (7)

1. Jackson, R. R. 1992. Eight-legged tricksters: Spiders that specialize at catching other spiders. BioScience 42:590-98.
2. Jackson, R. R. 1995. Cues for web invasion and aggressive mimicry signalling in Portia (Araneae, Salticidae). Journal of Zoology, London 236:131-149.
3. Jackson, R. R., and S. D. Pollard. 1996. Predatory behavior of jumping spiders. Annual Review of Entomology 41:287-308.
4. Tarsitano, M. S., and R. R. Jackson. 1996. Araneophagic jumping spiders discriminate between detour routes that do no and do lead to prey. Animal Behaviour 53:257-266.
5. Jackson, R. R., and R. S. Wilcox. 1994. Spider flexibly chooses aggressive mimicry signals for different prey by trial and error. Behaviour 127:21-36.
6. Richman, D. B., and R. R. Jackson. 1992. A review of the ethology of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 9:33-37.
7. Wilcox, R. S., R. R. Jackson and K. Gentile. 1996. Spiderweb smokescreens: Spider trickster masks stalking movements with web-borne signals. Animal Behaviour 51:313-326.