Odour-mediated response to plants by evarcha culicivora, a blood-feeding jumping spider from east Africa

New Zealand Journal of Zoology

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 75-80

  Cross, Fiona R ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

Author keywords

Nectar feeding; Olfaction; Salticidae; Spider plant relationship

Indexed keywords

ANGIOSPERM; HEMOPHAGY; NECTARIVORY; ODOR; OLFACTORY CUE; PLANT-INSECT INTERACTION; SPIDER;

AFRICA; EAST AFRICAN LAKES; LAKE VICTORIA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EUPHORBIA; EUPHORBIACEAE; EVARCHA; LANTANA; LANTANA CAMARA; RICINUS COMMUNIS; SALTICIDAE; VERBENACEAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 66749177397     PISSN: 03014223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03014220909510142     Document Type: Article

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