Should I stay or should I fly: Aerial dispersal in a funnel‐web wolf spider from the grasslands of southern South America
Nadia Kacevas,
Leticia Bidegaray‐Batista,
Noelia Gobel
et al.
Abstract:Ballooning is a mechanism of aerial dispersal present in some groups of spiders. By releasing silken threads that are blown by the wind, spiders can travel long distances through the air. Aglaoctenus lagotis is a wolf spider that lives its entire life associated with a funnel‐web, despite the wandering habit that characterizes species in this family. We can find two forms of the species in Uruguay, one of them a strict inhabitant of grasslands of Uruguay. The high habitat specificity and the spiderlings observ… Show more
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