Predation on social and solitary individuals of the spider Stegodyphus dumicola (Araneae, Eresidae)

Journal of Arachnology

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 61-69

  Henschel, Johannes R ^a  

^a Desert Ecological Research Unit of Namibia   (Namibia)

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