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New predatory interaction of Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) on Fidicinini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a forest fragment of the Neotropical region

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  New predatory interaction of Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) on Fidicinini (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a forest fragment of the Neotropical region Abstract Trichonephila clavipes (Araneae: Nephilidae) is an orb web-building spider whose diet is primarily based on flying insects. This note aims to report the first predatory interaction of T. clavipes on a cicada of the genus Fidicina (Hemiptera: Cicadidae) in a fragment of the Atlantic Forest in Brazil. The predation event was observed (ad libitum) in the Benjamin Maranhão Botanical Garden situated in the Mata do Buraquinho Wildlife Refuge, northeastern Brazil. A specimen of Fidicina sp. was found freshly dead and trapped in the web of T. clavipes. The nephilid was observed moving slowly between the ventral and dorsal regions of the Fidicina sp. without weaving a web around the cicadid. Then, T. clavipes was observed perched on the left side of the Fidicina sp., with its pedipalps and chelicerae manipulating the thorax ...

Evidence of venom variability associated with venom extraction interval in the monocled cobra (Naja kaouthia)

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Unveiling the diversity and distribution of Coelotinae (Araneae, Agelenidae) spiders from Chongqing, China

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The Hitherto Unknown Female of Araniella Maasdorpi (araneae: Araneidae)

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A further new species for the genus Ananteris Thorell, 1891 (Scorpiones: Ananteridae) from a poorly prospected region of Brazilian Amazonia

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Variability of sodium channel toxins in Mesobuthus thersites Advised toolkit for comprehensive venomics

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Rational attenuation of elapid long-chain neurotoxin by targeted residue substitution and disulfide architecture simplification: implications for receptor interaction and immune recognition

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Inter- and Intraspecific Variation in Web Architecture and Its Significance in Australian Funnel-Web Spiders (Atracidae)

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One more new species of Chaerilobuthus Lourenço & beigel, 2011 (Scorpiones: Chaerilobuthidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmite

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Longitudinal Variation in Riparian Spider Communities Along Near-Natural Streams

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The distribution, spatial clustering, and density of trapdoor spiders in two California coastal dune ecosystems

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New distributional data for the spiders Cheiracanthium inclusum (Hentz, 1847) (Araneae: Cheiracanthiidae) and Zimiris doriae Simon, 1882 (Araneae: Prodidomidae) in Mexico

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Cicileus derradji sp. nov., a New Species from Southern Algeria (Scorpiones: Buthidae)

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Systematics and Historical Biogeography of Neotropical Tarantulas: A Genomic Approach to Dolichothele (Araneae: Theraphosidae) Diversification Across Domains

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From Taxonomic Accuracy to Toxin Naming: A Welcome Dialogue in Toxicon

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Species diversity in the segmented spider genus Songthela (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae), with descriptions of 12 new species from Guizhou Province, China

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