Spiders are the preeminent silk craftsmen among arthropods and are best known for producing aerial orb webs that snare flying insects. Orb web spiders are ubiquitous …
The family Theridiidae is one of the most diverse assemblages of spiders, from both a morphological and ecological point of view. The family includes some of the very few cases …
Insular adaptive radiations in which repeated bouts of diversification lead to phenotypically similar sets of taxa serve to highlight predictability in the evolutionary process [1]. However …
WG Eberhard, I Agnarsson, HW Levi - Systematics and biodiversity, 2008 - theridiidae.com
We trace the evolution of the web designs of spiders in the large family Theridiidae using two recent, largely concordant phylogenies that are based on morphology and molecules …
FG Soley, RR Jackson, PW Taylor - New Zealand Journal of …, 2011 - Taylor & Francis
This is the first description of the natural history and behaviour of Stenolemus giraffa Wygodzinsky, an emesine assassin bug (Reduviidae; Emesinae) from Australia. Field data …
I Agnarsson - The Journal of Arachnology, 2002 - BioOne
Sociality and kleptoparasitism occur commonly in theridiid spiders. In both behaviors a number of conspecifics occupy a single web; gregariousness entails tolerance. Sociality has …
YC Su, D Smith - Invertebrate Systematics, 2014 - CSIRO Publishing
Spiders in the subfamily Argyrodinae are known for their associations with other spiders. These associations include predation (araneophagy), web usurpation and kleptoparasitism …
The diversification of a host lineage can be influenced by both the external environment and its assemblage of microbes. Here, we use a young lineage of spiders, distributed along a …