Armoured spiderman: Morphological and behavioural adaptations of a specialised araneophagous predator (Araneae: Palpimanidae)

Naturwissenschaften

Volumn 98, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 593-603

  Pekár, Stano ^a   Šobotník, Jan ^b   Lubin, Yael ^c  

^a MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

Predatory behaviour; Prey specificity; Spider; Stenophagy; Trophic niche

Indexed keywords

ARANEAE; CYRBA ALGERINA; HEXAPODA; SALTICIDAE; SERPENTES;

ADAPTATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; HISTOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPIDER; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ADAPTATION, BIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

EID: 84855170377     PISSN: 00281042     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00114-011-0804-1     Document Type: Article

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