The discerning predator: Decision rules underlying prey classification by a mosquitoeating jumping spider

Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 215, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 2255-2261

  Nelson, Ximena J ^a   Jackson, Robert R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CANTERBURY   (New Zealand)

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

Author keywords

Animation; Anopheles gambiae; Culex quinquefasciatus; Decision making; Evarcha culicivora; Prey choice; Salticidae; Vision

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ANOPHELES; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CULEX; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MOSQUITO; PHYSIOLOGY; PREDATION; SPIDER;

ANIMALS; ANOPHELES; CUES; CULEX; CULICIDAE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; SPIDERS;

ANOPHELES (GENUS); ANOPHELES GAMBIAE; ARANEAE; CULEX PIPIENS QUINQUEFASCIATUS; CULICIVORA; EVARCHA; SALTICIDAE; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84863620817     PISSN: 00220949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1242/jeb.069609     Document Type: Article

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