Specialized prey selection behavior of two east african assassin bugs, Scipinnia repax and Nagusta sp. that prey on social jumping spiders

Journal of Insect Science

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Jackson, Robert R ^a,b   Salm, Kathryn ^a   Nelson, Ximena J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

^c MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

araneophagy; intraguild predation; myrmecomorphy; predatory specialization; prey capture behavior; Reduviidae, Salticidae

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; FORMICIDAE; HARPACTORINAE; HEMIPTERA; NAGUSTA; PORTIA AFRICANA; REDUVIIDAE; SALTICIDAE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; DIET; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; NESTING; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIET; FEMALE; HEMIPTERA; MALE; NESTING BEHAVIOR; POPULATION DENSITY; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 77955636445     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15362442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1673/031.010.8201     Document Type: Article

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