Complex display behaviour of Evarcha culicivora, an East African mosquito‐eating jumping spider

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 151-187

  Cross, Fiona R ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b   Pollard, Simon D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

^b INTERNATIONAL CENTRE OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY ICIPE   (Kenya)

^c CANTERBURY MUSEUM   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Copulatory courtship; Courtship; Salticidae; Sexual cannibalism; Spiders

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; COURTSHIP; FEMALE BEHAVIOR; MALE BEHAVIOR; MOSQUITO; PREDATOR; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SPIDER;

ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SALTICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 49149109196     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014220809510112     Document Type: Article

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