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Title:Jumping spider invades an orb web to prey on a resident male
Authors:ID Kuntner, Matjaž (Author)
ID Kuntner, Eva (Author)
ID Kuntner, Maj (Author)
ID Kuntner, Irena (Author)
ID Li, Daiqin (Author)
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Language:English
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Abstract:While surveying operational sex ratios of the giant golden orb weaver Nephila pilipes (Fabricius, 1793) in Singapore, we documented a stunning case of predatory behavior of a jumping spider Viciria pavesii Thorell, 1877. A female V. pavesii invaded a N. pilipes orb web that was occupied by the resident female and four males, and successfully captured, killed, and removed one of the Nephila males. Whether araneophagy in V. pavesii is opportunistic or a predatory ritual remains to be tested more precisely, but because the observed predatory event triggered an aggressive response by the N. pilipes alpha male, it is plausible that V. pavesii may engage in aggressive mimicry. We place our observation into the context of jumping spider cognition and behavioral tactics that are so far well understood only in a few spartaeine genera, notably Portia Karsch, 1878. Viciria Thorell, 1877, we argue, is another such jumping spider taxon worthy of behavioral scrutiny.
Keywords:Nephila, Nephilidae, predation, Salticidae, Viciria
Publication status:Published
Publication version:Version of Record
Publication date:16.07.2023
Year of publishing:2023
Number of pages:str. 1-4
Numbering:iss. 7, art. 4595
PID:20.500.12556/DiRROS-20148 New window
UDC:592/599
ISSN on article:2150-8925
DOI:10.1002/ecs2.4595 New window
COBISS.SI-ID:160827139 New window
Note:Soavtorji: Eva Kuntner, Maj Kuntner, Irena Kuntner, Daiqin Li; Nasl. z nasl. zaslona; Opis vira z dne 7. 8. 2023;
Publication date in DiRROS:06.08.2024
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KUNTNER, Matjaž, KUNTNER, Eva, KUNTNER, Maj, KUNTNER, Irena and LI, Daiqin, 2023, Jumping spider invades an orb web to prey on a resident male. Ecosphere [online]. 2023. Vol. 7, no. 4595, p. 1–4. [Accessed 21 April 2025]. DOI 10.1002/ecs2.4595. Retrieved from: https://dirros.openscience.si/IzpisGradiva.php?lang=eng&id=20148
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Title:Ecosphere
Shortened title:Ecosphere
Publisher:Ecological Society of America
ISSN:2150-8925
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Funder:ARIS - Slovenian Research and Innovation Agency
Project number:P1-0255-2017
Name:Združbe, interakcije in komunikacije v ekosistemih
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Name:the Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum

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