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

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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
Citation
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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