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...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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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.