✦ LIBER ✦
Non-webbuilding spiders: prey specialists or generalists?
✍ Scribed by Wolfgang Nentwig
- Book ID
- 104762576
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1986
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 531 KB
- Volume
- 69
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0029-8549
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✦ Synopsis
Feeding experiments were performed with seven species of non-webbuilding spiders and a variety of prey taxa. Some species were generally polyphagous whereas other spiders restricted their prey to a few groups. At one end of the spectrum of prey specialization the thomisid Misumena vatia is limited to a few taxa of possible prey (Table 1). The literature of prey records of non-webbuilding spiders is reviewed (Table 2) with special emphasis on oligophagous or monophagous spiders. Monophagous spiders are generally rare and have specialized on only a few prey taxa: social insects (ants, bees, termites) and spiders.