A new species of Aelurillus Simon, 1884 (Aranei: Salticidae) from Thailand, with the first description of the male of A. afghanus Azarkina, 2006

Azarkina, Galina N.

doi:10.15298/arthsel.28.3.05

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“…Most Salticids are likely polyphagous predators who prefer to prey on soft-bodied and convenient to handle arthropods (Bartos, 2004;Guseinov, 2005;Huseynov, 2006). The jumping spiders of Pakistan have the least studies family than adjacent countries Iran, China and India (Ali et al, 2018;Ali, 2021;Azarkina, 2004;Azarkina, 2019;Bauer & Freudenschuss, 2015;Caleb et al, 2019;Caleb et al, 2022;Dyal, 1935;Kadam et al, 2021;Li, 2020;Logunov 2021a;c;Prószyński & Żochowska, 1981;Tripathi et al, 2021]. Aelurillus logunovi Azarkina, 2004 was first described from a type of material from district Swabi, collected by A. H. Wild in 1958 from Hazara and Haripur-Tarbela Road and deposited in the Natural History Museum of United Kingdom (BMNH) (Azarkina, 2004).…”

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Behavioural responses and feeding preference of Aellurilus Logunovi Azarkina, 2004 (Araneae: Salticidae) to prey in a controlled environment

Hidayat¹,

Ali²,

Yousaf³

et al. 2022

Nat. App. Sci. Int. J.

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Forty adults of Aellurilus logunovi Azarkina, 2004 were randomly collected from scrub hills edges of district Swabi, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan and observed in a controlled environment at Zoology Lab, Women University Swabi. The study aimed to describe predatory behaviour, i.e., foraging modes, how they establish predatory responses to prey and the abiotic factors that influence their hunting in a controlled environment. It is firstly reported that Aellurilus logunovi Azarkina, 2004 is a generalist predator and has a mix of feeding modes of insectivores and araneophagic or cannibalism with, utilizing their prey by either squeezing or partially engulfing. As the handling time increases with an increased body mass of prey and decreases with an increased mass of predators and reduces the mass of prey. It is also first reported that the activity of Aellurilus logunovi is highly affected by ambient temperature and light, i.e., their activity increased with an increase in temperature and light and mainly was more active below 40°C.

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