“…Earlier publications were those by FRIEDRICH (1906), WEISS (1907), OPPENHEIM (1908) and WOOD (1926). Particularly noteworthy are the reports of FRIEDRICH (1906) and those of OPPENHEIM (1908), whose results differed significantly from those described by BONNET. Autotomy, ordinary tomy and the capacity for regeneration in spiders were also the subject of study of many other arachnologists (GABRITSCHEVSKY, 1927(GABRITSCHEVSKY, , 1930LOCKET, 1936;SAVORY, 1936;MIKULSKA et al, 1975;RUHLAND, 1976;RANDAL, 1981;ROTH and ROTH, 1984;VOLLRATH, 1990), who observed interesting relationships between those processes.…”