Assassin bug uses aggressive mimicry to lure spider prey

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 278, Issue 1710, 2011, Pages 1427-1433

  Wignall, Anne E ^a   Taylor, Phillip W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aggressive mimicry; Lure; Stenolemus bituberus; Vibration; Web building spiders

Indexed keywords

AGGRESSION; AMPLITUDE; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; INSECT; MIMICRY; PREDATOR-PREY INTERACTION; VIBRATION;

ARANEAE; HEXAPODA; REDUVIIDAE; STENOLEMUS;

EID: 79953326802     PISSN: 09628452     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2010.2060     Document Type: Article

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