Social organisation of<i>Scytodes fusca</i>, a communal web-building spitting spider (Araneae, Scytodidae) from Queensland

Bowden, Karen; Jackson, Robert R.

doi:10.1080/03014223.1988.10422961

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“…Juveniles of S. intricata in Panama (Eberhard, 1986) and Scytodes fusca in Queensland, Australia (Bowden & Jackson, 1988), in common with Los Ban Äos Scytodes, tend to live communally well past emergence from the egg sac. The largest colonies known are those of S. fusca, a communal and territorial social spider (de®nition: Jackson, 1978) that builds web complexes on tree trunks.…”

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“…The largest colonies known are those of S. fusca, a communal and territorial social spider (de®nition: Jackson, 1978) that builds web complexes on tree trunks. Many individuals live together in these complexes, but with adults occupying separate defended web units (Bowden & Jackson, 1988). Neither S. intricata nor Los Ban Äos Scytodes have been seen in web complexes.…”

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“…Spitting might suggest particularly unsociable behaviour, yet S. fusca Walckenaer from Queensland lives in colonies (Bowden & Jackson, 1988) and S. intricata Banks from Panama practises maternal care of egg sacs and young (Eberhard, 1986). However, details about sociality in scytodids are scarce.…”

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Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

Jackson

Barrion

1999

Journal of Zoology

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Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

Jackson

Barrion

1999

Journal of Zoology

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“…Maternal care of eggs and provision of food to juveniles appear not to be the only types of social behaviour that have evolved within the genus Scytodes. Juveniles of S. intricata in Panama (Eberhard, 1986) and Scytodes fusca in Queensland, Australia (Bowden & Jackson, 1988), in common with Los Ban Äos Scytodes, tend to live communally well past emergence from the egg sac. The largest colonies known are those of S. fusca, a communal and territorial social spider (de®nition: Jackson, 1978) that builds web complexes on tree trunks.…”

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Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

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Barrion³

1999

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“…In colonial spiders, for example, colonies of webs can be found clustered around a rich food source in order to exploit it more efficiently. The spiders use common frame threads, but each individual maintains its own webs and feeds solitarily, and conspecifics may not be accepted within individual webs (Jackson 1982;Bowden and Jackson 1988). Aggregations are associated with close contact among individuals.…”

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Social Recognition in the Arachnida

Walter

Bilde

2015

Social Recognition in Invertebrates

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More than 99 % of arachnid species are solitary, aggressive and often cannibalistic predators. A few species are social and cooperative, but they do not reach the level of eusociality found in some insects. Kin recognition is suggested to be a key feature for the evolution of cooperation and sociality and thus found predominantly in those few species. While kin recognition and social interactions are well investigated in spiders, these behaviours are understudied in other arachnid taxa. Nevertheless, social species are also known in the Acari, Pseudoscorpiones, Scorpiones, Opiliones and Amblypygi. Still, we have limited information on the adaptive value of social recognition in arachnids, how it is facilitated and maintained. While this field of research is still young, it has produced some encouraging results. This chapter reviews the knowns and the unknowns of social recognition mechanisms with respect to their importance for the evolution of arachnid sociality. We will particularly focus on kin recognition and kin discrimination. First, we shortly introduce the evolution of sociality in arachnids which provides the background for the understanding of the different recognition and discrimination mechanisms explained subsequently. Further, we illustrate the interspecific discrimination abilities of arachnids, and present the state of the art on intraspecific recognition and kin recognition in spiders and other arachnids. This chapter illustrates that various social recognition abilities and especially kin recognition exist in social but also non-social arachnids. These mechanisms allow different species to distinguish between familiar and foreign, or related and unrelated individuals, to either support or discriminate against them. In contrast to eusocial insects, the necessity of maintaining kin recognition abilities often appears to be obscure and highly context-dependent. Thus, a generalisation of its adaptive value in arachnids is not possible. There is some evidence for the concept of kin recognition facilitating the evolutionary transition from subsocial

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Social organisation ofScytodes fusca, a communal web-building spitting spider (Araneae, Scytodidae) from Queensland

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Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

Parental and predatory behaviour of Scytodes sp., an araneophagic spitting spider (Araneae: Scytodidae) from the Philippines

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