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A field guide to spiders of Australia /

Australians have a love-hate relationship with spiders. Spiders inspire fear, especially dangerous species such as the Redback and Sydney Funnelweb. Yet, Peacock Spiders, whose males spread a colourful fan and wave their legs in a courtship dance to impress females, have won rapturous appreciation w...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Whyte, Robert, 1955- (Autor), Anderson, Greg, 1958 September 27- (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: CSIRO (Australia)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Clayton, Vic. : CSIRO Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; From arachnophobia to arachnophilia; How to use this book; Determining species
  • everything helps, including genitals; Australia's rich arachnological history; Parts of a spider
  • the need-to-know terms; Shortcuts to identification ; Behaviour; Eyes; Spinnerets; Location; Webs; Burrows; Egg sacs; Leaf-curlers ; Spider families from A to Z; Araneomorphae; Araneidae Orb-weavers; Araneinae Classic Orb-weavers; Araneus
  • a huge task of discovery and classification; Backobourkia
  • a true Aussie genus.
  • Cyclosa
  • a genus needing some serious attentionNew discoveries in the west, with some shared; Argiopinae St Andrew's Cross Spiders and allies; Cyrtarachninae Shiny Orb-weavers; Cyrtophorinae Tent-web Orb-weavers; Gasteracanthinae Spiny Orb-weavers; Mastophorinae Bolas Spiders and allies; Nephilinae Golden Orb-weavers; Kleptoparasites
  • who's been stealing from my web?; Zygiellinae Leaf-curling Orb-weavers; Where did they come from and how did they get here?; Arkyidae Ambush-hunters; Variations galore
  • and they all look like poo; A case of convergence
  • ambush-hunters among flowers.
  • Clubionidae Sac SpidersCorinnidae Swift Spiders and Ant Mimics; Ticopa
  • a corinnid with an unusual biology; Deinopidae Net-casting Spiders; Desidae Intertidal and House Spiders; Eutichuridae Slender Sac Spiders; The problem of species, subspecies and forms; Filistatidae Crevice Weavers; Gnaphosidae Ground Spiders; The gnaphosid genus Eilica
  • running with ants; Hersiliidae Two-tailed Spiders; Lamponidae White-tailed Spiders; Linyphiidae Money Spiders; Lycosidae Wolf Spiders; Mimetidae Pirate Spiders; Miturgidae Prowling Spiders; Nicodamidae Red-and-black Spiders; Oxyopidae Lynx Spiders.
  • Pholcidae Daddy Long-legs SpidersPisauridae Fishing Spiders; Prodidomidae Long-spinneret Speedsters; Salticidae Jumping Spiders; Jumping Spider diversity
  • so many species, so little time ; Is it an ant? Or is it an ant-mimicking Jumping Spider?; Peacock Spiders
  • tiny dancers going viral as video stars; When is a Maratus not a Maratus? This is the question.; Ant, ant, on the wall, who mimics you best of all?; Calling all citizen scientists for project Opisthoncus; Extraordinary hunting strategies for a spider specialist; Separating Servaea species
  • DNA helps paint the picture.
  • Scytodidae Spitting SpidersSegestriidae Tube-web Spiders; Sparassidae Huntsman Spiders; Tetragnathidae Long-jawed Spiders; Theridiidae Comb-footed Spiders; The Redback Spider
  • an Australian now living overseas; Tiny forest jewels
  • spectacular Thwaitesia spiders; Thomisidae Crab Spiders; Notes on some recent name changes ; A remarkable find
  • the missing male of a famous female; A spectacular ambush-hunter
  • Thomisus spectabilis; Trochanteriidae Unusual Flatties; Uloboridae Venomless Spiders; Zodariidae Ant-eating Spiders ; Mygalomorphae; Actinopodidae Mouse Spiders.