The attentive spider: Search-image use by a mosquito-eating predator

Ethology

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 240-247

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYPSIS; HEMOPHAGY; IMAGE; MATE CHOICE; MATE LOCATION; MOSQUITO; PREDATOR; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; SPIDER; VERTEBRATE;

EAST AFRICA;

ARANEAE; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; SALTICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 77949904035     PISSN: 01791613     EISSN: 14390310     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2009.01731.x     Document Type: Article

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