Asymmetric female genitalia and other remarkable morphology in a new genus of cobweb spiders (Theridiidae, Araneae) from Madagascar

Biological Journal of the Linnean Society

Volumn 87, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 211-232

  Agnarsson, Ingi ^a,b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antisymmetry; Asymmetric epigyna; Clypeal proboscis; Copulation; Mating; Pholcommatinae; Prosomal pits; Stridulation; Theridiid phylogeny

Indexed keywords

MATING BEHAVIOR; MORPHOLOGY; NEW GENUS; SPIDER;

INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; MADAGASCAR;

ARANEAE; THERIDIIDAE;

EID: 33644989835     PISSN: 00244066     EISSN: 10958312     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2006.00569.x     Document Type: Article

References (61)

1. Agnarsson I 2003a. Interactive key to the world genera of cobweb spiders (Theridiidae), Version 1.0 beta, George Washington University, online at..
2. Agnarsson I 2003b The phylogenetic placement and circumscription of the genus Synotaxus (Araneae: Synotaxidae) with a description of a new species from Guyana, and notes on theridioid phylogeny Invertebrate Systematics 17 719 734
3. Agnarsson I 2004 Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 141 1 178
4. Agnarsson I Kuntner M 2005 Madagascar: an unexpected hotspot of social Anelosimus spider diversity (Araneae: Theridiidae) Systematic Entomology 30 575 592
5. Barth FG 1982 Spiders and vibratory signals: sensory reception and behavioral significance In Witt PN Rovner JS eds Spider communication: mechanisms and ecological significance Princeton NJ Princeton University Press 67 122
6. Barth FG 2001 A spider's world: senses and behavior Berlin Springer Verlag
7. Branch JH 1942 A spider which amputates one of its palpi Bulletin of the South California Academy of Science 41 139 140
8. Bremer K 1988 The limits of amino acid sequence data in angiosperm phylogenetic reconstruction Evolution 42 795 803
9. Bremer K 1994 Branch support and tree stability Cladistics 10 295 304
10. Coddington JA 1983 A temporary slide-mount allowing precise manipulation of small structures. In Kraus O ed. Taxonomy, biology and ecology of Araneae and Myriapoda Verhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg New Series 26 291 292
11. Coddington JA 1989 Spinneret silk spigot morphology. Evidence for the monophyly of orb-weaving spiders, Cyrtophorinae (Araneidae), and the group Theridiidae-Nesticidae Journal of Arachnology 17 71 95
12. Coddington JA 1990 Ontogeny and homology in the male palpus of orb weaving spiders and their relatives, with comments on phylogeny (Araneoclada: Araneoidea, Deinopoidea) Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 496 1 52
13. Coddington JA Levi HW 1991 Systematics and evolution of spiders (Araneae) Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 22 565 592
14. Eberhard WG 1996 Female control: sexual selection by cryptic female choice Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press
15. Farris JS 1969 A successive approximations approach to character weighting Systematic Zoology 18 374 385
16. Felsenstein J 1985 Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the Bootstrap Evolution 39 783 791
17. Goloboff PA 1993 NONA Version 2.0. Computer program and documentation available from J. Carpenter Department of Entomology, American Museum of Natural History.
18. González-Sponga MA 1998 Arácnidos de Venezuela. Cuatro nuevos géneros y cuatro nuevas especies de la familia Pholcidae Koch, 1850 (Araneae) Memorias de la Sociedad de Ciencias Naturales la Salle 57 17 31
19. Grandcolas P 1996 The phylogeny of cockroach families: a cladistic appraisal of morpho-anatomical data Canadian Journal of Zoology 74 508 527
20. Holm Å 1979 A taxonomic study of European and East African species of the genera Pelecopsis and Trichopterna (Araneae, Linyphiidae), with descriptions of a new genus and two new species of Pelecopsis from Kenya Zoologica Scripta 8 255 278
21. Huber BA 1998 Spider reproductive behaviour: a review of Gerhardt's work from 1911 to 1933, with implications for sexual selection Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11 81 91
22. Huber BA 2003 High species diversity in one of the dominant groups of spiders in East African montane forests (Araneae: Pholcidae: Buitinga n. gen., Spermophora Hentz) Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 137 555 619
23. Huber BA 2004 Evidence for functional segregation in the directionally asymmetric male genitalia of the spider Metagonia mariguitarensis (Gonzalez-Sponga) (Pholcidae: Araneae) Journal of Zoology, London 262 317 326
24. Knoflach B 1995 Two remarkable afromontane Theridiidae: Proboscidula milleri n. sp. & Robertus calidus n. sp. (Arachnida, Araneae) Revue Suisse de Zoologie 102 979 988
25. Knoflach B 1996 Three new species of Carniella from Thailand (Araneae, Theridiidae) Revue Suisse de Zoologie 103 567 579
26. Knoflach B 2002 Copulation and emasculation in Echinotheridion gibberosum (Kulczynski, 1899) (Araneae, Theridiidae) In Toft S Scharff N eds European Arachnology 2000 Aarhus Aarhus University Press 139 144
27. Knoflach B 2004 Diversity in the copulatory behaviour of comb-footed spiders (Araneae, Theridiidae) Denisia 12, zugleich Kataloge der OÖ Landesmuseen Neue Serie 14 161 256
28. Knoflach B Pfaller K 2004 Kugelspinnen - eine Einführung (Araneae, Theridiidae) Denisia 12, zugleich Kataloge der OÖ Landesmuseen Neue Serie 14 111 160
29. Knoflach B van-Harten A 2000 Palpal loss, single palp copulation and obligatory mate consumption in Tidarren cuneolatum (Tullgren, 1910) (Araneae, Theridiidae) Journal of Natural History 34 1639 1659
30. Knoflach B van-Harten A 2001 Tidarren argo sp. nov. (Araneae: Theridiidae) and its exceptional copulatory behaviour: Emasculation, male palpal organ as a mating plug and sexual cannibalism Journal of Zoology, London 254 449 459
31. Kuntner M Šereg I 2002 Additions to the spider fauna of Slovenia, with a comparison of spider species richness among European countries Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 12 185 195
32. Legendre R Lopez A 1974 Histological study of some glandular formations in the spider genus Argyrodes (Theridiidae) and description of a new type of gland: the clypeal gland of the males Bulletin de la Societe Zoologique de France 99 453 460
33. Legendre R Lopez A 1975 Ultrastructure de la glande clypéale des mâles d'araignées appartenant au genre Argyrodes (Theridiidae). [Ultrastructure of the male clypeal gland of spiders of the genus Argyrodes (Theridiidae) ] Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Seances de l'Academie des Sciences Paris (D) 281 1101 1103
34. Levi HW 1963 The spider genera Cerocida, Hetschkia, Wirada and Craspedisia (Araneae: Theridiidae) Psyche 70 170 179
35. Levi HW 1972 Taxonomic-nomenclatorial notes on misplaced theridiid spiders (Araneae: Theridiidae) with observations on Anelosimus Transactions of the American Microscopical Society 91 533 538
36. Levi HW 1973 Small orb-weavers of the genus Araneus north of Mexico (Araneae: Araneidae) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 145 473 552
37. Levi HW Levi LR 1962 The genera of the spider family Theridiidae Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard College 127 1 71
38. Lopez A Emerit M Juberthie-Jupeau L 1980 The 'clypeal' gland of Argyrodes cognatus (Blackwall 1877) a theridiid spider from the Seychelles Islands In Gruber J ed. Verhandlungen 8 Internationaler Arachnologen - Kongress abgehalten an der Universität für Bodenkultur Wien, 7-12 Juli,1980 Vienna H. Egermann 309 313
39. Lubin YD 1986 Courtship and alternative mating tactics in a social spider The Journal of Arachnology 14 239 257
40. Ludwig W 1932 Das Rechts-Links-Problem im Tierreich und Beim Menschen Berlin Springer Verlag
41. Maddison WP Maddison DR 2002 Macclade: Analysis of Phylogeny and Character Evolution Version 4.01. Sunderland, MA Sinauer Associates
42. Maddison WP Maddison DR 2001 Mesquite, a modular system for evolutionary analysis Version 0.98..
43. McAlpine JF 1981 Morphology and terminology - adults In McAlpine JF Peterson BV Shewell GE Teskey HJ Vockeroth JR Wood DM eds Manual of Nearctic Diptera Monograph no. 27 Research Branch Agriculture Canada 9 63
44. Miller F 1970 Spinnenarten der Unterfamilie Micryphantinae und der Familie Theridiidae aus Angola Publicações culturais, Companhia de Diamantes de Angola 82 75 166
45. Nixon KC 2002 WinClada Version 1.00.08. Ithaca, NY Published by the author.
46. Opell BD Beatty JA 1976 The Nearctic Hahniidae (Arachnida: Araneae) Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 147 393 433
47. Page R 2001 NEXUS data edfor Windows Version 0.5.0. Published by the author, available at:.
48. Platnick NI 2004 The World Spider Catalog version 4.5. American Museum of Natural History online at.
49. Roth VD Silva Davila D Ubick D Griswold CE 2003 Spiders recorded from Madagascar. Online at:.
50. Saaristo M 2003 Species list of the Seychellian spiders. Online at:.
51. Shear WA 1967 Expanding the palpi of male spiders Breviora of the Museum of Comparative Zoology 259 1 27
52. Simon E 1889 Etudes arachnologiques. 21e Mémoire. XXXI. Descriptions d'espèces et the genres nouveaux de Madagascar et de Mayotte Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 8 223 236
53. Simon E 1894 Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris: Roret, 488-592.
54. Swofford DL 2002 Paup* Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and Other Methods) Version 4.0. Sunderland, MA Sinauer Associates
55. Thaler K Steinberger KH 1988 Zwei neue Zwerg-Kugelspinnen aus Österreich (Arachnida: Aranei, Theridiidae) Revue Suisse de Zoologie 95 997 1004
56. Thorne BL Carpenter JM 1992 Phylogeny of the Dictyoptera Systematic Entomology 17 253 268
57. Tuxen SL 1970 Taxonomist's glossary of genitalia in insects Copenhagen Munksgaard
58. Uetz GW McClintock WJ Miller D Smith EI Cook KK 1996 Limb regeneration and subsequent asymmetry in a male secondary sexual character influences sexual selection in wolf spiders Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 38 253 257
59. Westring N 1843 Om stridulationsorganet hos Asagena serratipes Schrk Naturhistorisk Tidskrift 4 349 360
60. Whitehouse MEA 1987 The external structural detail of the protrusions on the cephalothorax of male Argyrodes antipodiana (Theridiidae) Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 7 142 144
61. Wunderlich J 1995 Südostasiatische Arten der Gattung Carniella Thaler & Steinberger 1988, mit zwei Neubeschreibungen (Arachnida: Araneae: Theridiidae) Beiträge zur Araneologie 4 553 558