Trophic strategy of ant-eating Mexcala elegans (Araneae: Salticidae): Looking for evidence of evolution of prey-specialization

• Authors: PEKÁR Stanislav; HADDAD Charles
• Year of publication: 2011
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Journal of Arachnology
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Field: Zoology
• Keywords: araneae; myrmecophagy; evolution
• Description: We investigated the trophic strategy of Mexcala elegans Peckham & Peckham 1903, an ant-eating salticid spider from South Africa, in order to gain baseline information concerning the evolution of prey specialization

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