Updated phylogenetic and systematics of the Acrapex albivena Hampson, 1910 and A. stygiata (Hampson, 1910) species groups (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae, Apameini, Sesamiina), with the description of nine new species from the Afrotropics

Publication Type

Journal Article

Journal Name

How Animals See the World: Comparative Behavior, Biology, and Evolution of Vision

Publication Date

5-24-2012

Abstract

This chapter examines how the jumping spider's eight eyes are structured, how they function, and how they might have evolved. It also reviews the intricate vision-based predatory strategies for which jumping spiders are justly renowned. The last part of the chapter combines what is known about variation in salticid eye design and behavior with what is known from traditional taxonomic and modern phylogenetic data in order to reconsider the hypothesis that araneophagy has been a driving force in the evolution of the salticid principal eye.

Keywords

Araneophagy, Jumping spiders, Predatory strategies, Salticids

ISBN

[9780199933167, 9780195334654]

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