Ploys and counterploys of assassin bugs and their dangerous spider prey

Behaviour

Volumn 150, Issue 3-4, 2013, Pages 397-425

  Soley, Fernando G ^a   Taylor, Phillip W ^a  

^a MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

anti predator behaviour; araneophagy; predatory interactions; predatory versatility; Stenolemus

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880526313     PISSN: 00057959     EISSN: 1568539X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/1568539X-00003059     Document Type: Article

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