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Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983

Title: Proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Arachnology, Panama 1983 / edited by William C. Eberhard, Yael D. Lubin, and Barbara C. Robinson.
Author: International Congress of Arachnology (9th : 1983 : Panama, Panama)
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Published for the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Balboa, Republic of Panama, by the Smithsonian Institution Press, 1986.

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333 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

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Conference papers and proceedings.

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Includes bibliographies.

Contents

The ecology of spiders under snow / Cassie W. Aitchison -- The behavioral response of the fishing spider Dolomedes triton (Pisauridae) to surface waves of the water / Horst Bleckman -- Como las arañas determinan el tamaño de camada / Daniel R. Briceño -- Desert adaptations of arachnids / J.L. Cloudsley-Thompson -- Courtship, mating, and the function of male-specific leg structures in the mygalomorph spider genus Euagrus (Araneae, Dipluridae) / Frederick A. Coyle -- Cyrtocarenum Ausserer, 1871, a living fossil? / Arthur E. Decae -- Leaf-dwelling Pholcidae in Indo-Australian rain forests / Christa L. Deeleman-Reinhold -- Trail line manipulation as a character for higher level spider taxonomy / William G. Eberhard -- Why are genitalia good species characters? / William G. Eberhard -- The stabilimenta of Argiope flavipalpis and Argiope trifasciata in West Africa, with a discussion of the function of stabilimenta / Janet Edmunds -- The defensive mechanisms of orb weavers (Araneae: Araneidae) in Ghana, West Africa / Janet Edmunds and Malcolm Edmunds -- On the relation between Stegodyphus dufouri (Audouin) 1827 (Araneae: Eresidae) and Pseudopompilus humboldti (Dahlbom) 1845 (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) / Hisham K. EI-Hennawy -- Genetic diversity between isolated populations of the Californian trapdoor spider Bothriocyrtum californicum (Mygalomorphae, Ctenizidae) / Martin Galindo-Ramirez and Richard Beckwitt -- The residence leaf as a prey-monitoring surface for the spider Theridion grallator Simon (Theridiidae: Araneae) / Samuel M. Gon III -- Adjustment of the optical reference direction in the optical orientation of the funnel-web spider Agelena labyrinthica Clerck / Peter Görner -- Observations on the prey and nesting biology of spider-hunting wasps of the genus Trypoxylon (Hymenoptera: Sphecidae) in Costa Rica / Charles E. Griswold and Rollin E. Coville -- From where are the Linyphiidae derived? : problems of Araneoideae phylogeny (Arachnida: Araneae) / Stefan Heimer -- World distribution of Linyphiidae / P.J. van Helsdingen -- Les pseudoscorpions de Madagascar : réflexions sur la répartition géographique / Jacqueline Heurtault -- The scent glands of Opiliones : a review of their function / Robert G. Holmberg -- Observations on the fine structure of the calamistrum in the three British umaurobiid spider species / Isobel M. Howe and John E. Dalingwater -- A progress report on using aspects of reproduction as criteria for distinguishing two closely related British Tegenaria species / Jane A.B. Kennett and John E. Dalingwater -- Répartition des individus d'une population de Zygiella x-notata (Clerck), influence sur la taille de la toile / Raymond Leborgne and Alain Pasquet -- Evolution of the Scytodoidea / Pekka T. Lehtinen -- Ant-mimicking orb weavers of the genus Ildibaha / Herbert W. Levi -- Araneid taphonomy : a paleo thermometer / Edwin L. Licht -- Feeding ecology of the desert scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis Stahnke at two locations in southern California / Sharon J. McCormick and Gary A. Polis -- Use of web by Tapinillus longipes (Araneae: Oxyopidae) / Giselle Mora-M. -- Why are spiders highly selective in what they catch? / Wolfgang Nentwig -- Observations on sperm induction, courtship, and mating behaviour of Uloborus ferokus Bradoo (Araneae: Uloborida) / B.H. Patel and B.L. Bradoo -- Sexual variation in the feeding ecology of the scorpion Paruroctonus mesaensis Stahnke / Gary A. Polis -- Patterns of evaporative water loss in tarantulas (Araeneae, Theraphosidae) : transpiration and secretion / Ralf Pulz -- Revisión de la clasificación de amblypygidos pulvinados : creación de subordenes, una nueva familia y un nuevo genero con tres nuevas especies (Arachnida: Amblypygi) / Diomedes Arias Quintero -- Nuevos datos sobre Gluvia dorsalis Latreille, 1817 (Solifugos, Daesiidae) / Maris Rambla and Jose A. Barrientos -- Pseudoscorpion population in oak-hickory woodlands / William F. Rapp -- A cladistic reassessment of mygalomorph spider families (Araneae) / Robert J. Raven -- Uluella formosa, a salticid architect in the Neotropics / Jonathan Reiskind -- Ethology of the orientation to airborne sound in funnel-web spiders (Agelenidae, Araneae) / Andreas Reissland and Annette Habigsberg -- Los Dysderidae (Arachnida, Araneae) cavernicolas de la Peninsula Iberica / Carlos Ribera, M.A. Ferrández, and J.A. Pérez -- Egg-sac burying behavior in Nephila maculate : a specialized adaptation / Michael H. Robinson, Barbara C. Robinson, Frances M. Murphy, Wendy S. Corley -- Studies on the role of opilionids as predators in a beech wood ecosystem / Matthias Schaefer -- Observations on spiders from Sri Lanka and Réunion / Gunter E.H. Schmidt -- Neural control of the spider heartbeat / R.G. Sherman -- Costs and benefits of communal behavior in a presocial spider / Deborah R. Smith -- The functional response of a juvenile orb-weaving spider / Risa B. Smith and William G. Wellington -- Nuevos eremobatidos mexicanos (Arachnida; Solpugida) / Ignacio M. Vazquez -- Análisis discriminante para un problema específico entre Pardosa pullata (Clerck 1758) y P. femoralis E. Simon 1876 (Araneae: Lycosidae) / Puiggraciós Villaronga -- Pathogens and parasitoids of the California fossorial mygalomorph spider Atypoides riversi O.P. Cambridge (Antrodiaetidae: Araneae) of various age and size classes / Leonard S. Vincent -- Subsocial and social Anelosimus : a comparison, especially of nest defense / Fritz Vollrath and Donald Windsor -- Abstracts / Leticia Avilés [and others].

ISBN

0874744016
9780874744019

LCCN

86060475

OCLC

ocm13423653
13423653
SCSB-1161357

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