Speculative hunting by an araneophagic salticid spider

Behaviour

Volumn 137, Issue 12, 2000, Pages 1601-1612

  Clark, Robert J ^a   Harland, Duane P ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Jacksonoides queenslandicus; Jumping spiders; Portia fimbriata; Predation; Speculative hunting

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034557149     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156853900502736     Document Type: Article

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