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Complex Display Behaviour of Evarcha Culicivora, an East African Mosquito‐eating Jumping Spider

Cross, Fiona R.; Jackson, Robert R.; Pollard, Simon D. (Taylor & Francis, 2008)

Evarcha culicivora, an East African jumping spider (Salticidae), is an unusual predator because it feeds indirectly on vertebrate blood by choosing blood-carrying mosquitoes as preferred prey. It also associates with ...
Cross-modality Effects During Male–male Interactions of Jumping Spiders

Cross, Fiona R.; Jackson, Robert R.; Pollard, Simon D.; Walker, Mark W. (Elsevier, 2007)

An important prediction from game theory is that the value of a resource influences the level to which male–male conflict escalates. Earlier experimental studies have shown that the seven salticid species we study here ...
Male and Female Mate-Choice Decisions by Evarcha culicivora, An East African Jumping Spider

Cross, Fiona R.; Jackson, Robert R.; Pollard, Simon D. (Blackwell Verlag, Berlin, 2007)

There has been a considerable recent interest in the criteria by which animals choose mates and in the extent to which mating systems tend to be based on mutual mate choice. In this study, we consider Evarcha culicivora, ...

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