Pisaura mirabilis

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Lycosoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Opisthothelae Infraordo: Araneomorphae Taxon: Neocribellatae Series: Entelegynae Superfamilia: Lycosoidea

Familia: Pisauridae
Genus: Pisaura
Species: Pisaura mirabilis

Name

Pisaura mirabilis (Clerck, 1757)

References

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]
Hansena L.S. et al. 2008. Thanatosis as an adaptive male mating strategy in the nuptial gift–giving spider Pisaura mirabilis. Behavioral Ecology 19(3):546-551 [2]
Anonymous 2008. Spiders play dead to get laid. New Scientis, issue nº2645, 27 February 2008 [3]
Staalhandske P. 2001. Nuptial gift in the spider Pisaura mirabilis maintained by sexual selection. Behavioral Ecology 12:691–697 [4]
A. Lang. 1995. A note on body size parameters and some life data of Pisaura mirabilis (Araneae, Pisauridae). Proc. XV. Eur. Coll. Arachnol. 111-115
Lang A, Klarenberg AJ, 1995. A note on body size parameters and some life history data of Pisaura mirabilis (Araneae, Pisauridae). In:Proceedings of the 15th European Colloquium of Arachnology (Ru¨zicka V, ed). Ceske´ Budejovice: Institute of Entomology; 111–115
Lang A, 1996. Silk investments in gifts by males of the nuptial feeding spider Pisaura mirabilis (Araneae: Pisauridae). Behaviour 133:697–716
A. Lang, C. Klarenberg. 1997. Experiments on the foraging behaviour of the hunting spider Pisaura mirabilis (Araneae, Pisauridae): Utilisation of single prey items. Eur. J. Ent. 94
Nitzsche ROM, 1988. ‘‘Brautgeschenk’’ und Umspinnen der Beute bei Pisaura mirabilis, Dolomedes fimbriatus und Thaumasia uncata (Arachnida, Araneida, Pisauridae). Verh naturwiss Ver Hamburg 30:353–393
Austad SN, Thornhill R, 1986. Female reproductive variation in a nuptial-feeding spider, Pisaura mirabilis. Bull Br Arachnol Soc 7:48–52
D Dondale and R Legendre, Winter diapause in a Mediterranean population of Pisaura mirabilis (Clerk), Bull. Brit. Arach. Soc. 2 (1971), pp. 6–10

Vernacular names

English: Nursery-Web Spider
português: Pisaura