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A new species of Sickesia (Laniatores: Stygnidae: Opiliones) and new records for the State of Piauí, Brazil
(Sociedade Brasileira de Zoologia, 2009)
Sickesia tremembe sp. nov. is described from Piauí, Northeast Brazil (type-locality: Sete Cidades National Park, Brasileira and Piracuruca municipalities). It differs from S. usta and S. helmuti by the clavate male femur ...
Chromosome complement and meiosis of Holmbergiana weyenberghii (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Gagrellinae) from ArgentinaComplemento cromosómico y meiosis de Holmbergiana weyenberghii (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Gagrellinae) de Argentina
(Sociedad Entomológica Argentina, 2010-12)
Se analiza citogenéticamente, por primera vez, una especie de opilión proveniente de Argentina: Holmbergiana weyenberghii (Holmberg) (Eupnoi, Sclerosomatidae, Gagrellinae). Los machos tienen un complemento cromosómico ...
Costs and benefits of freezing behaviour in the harvestman Eumesosoma roeweri (Arachnida, Opiliones)
(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2009)
Animals present an enormous variety of behavioural defensive mechanisms, which increase their survival, but often at a cost. Several animal taxa reduce their chances of being detected and/or recognized as prey items by ...
Losing legs and walking hard: Effects of autotomy and different substrates in the locomotion of harvestmen in the genus Prionostemma
(American Arachnological Society, 2016-04)
Autotomy, the strategy of voluntarily releasing a leg during an encounter with a potential predator or in agonisticinteractions between conspecifics, is common in animals. The potential costs of this behavior have been ...
Losing legs and walking hard: Effects of autotomy and different substrates in the locomotion of harvestmen in the genus Prionostemma
(Journal of Arachnology vol.44 no.1 76-82 2016, 2016-04-01)
Autotomy, the strategy of voluntarily releasing a leg during an encounter with a potential predator or in agonistic interactions between conspecifics, is common in animals. The potential costs of this behavior have been ...
Sexual Differences in the Behavior of the Harvestman Leiobunum vittatum (Opiliones, Sclerosomatidae) Towards Conspecific Cues
(SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERSNEW YORK, 2012)
Preliminary observations of the harvestman Leiobunum vittatum found that individuals rub their bodies against the substrate, presenting the possibility of chemical marking. To determine whether or not L. vittatum individuals ...
Harvestman (Arachnida : Opiliones) species distribution along three Neotropical elevational gradients: an alternative rescue effect to explain Rapoport's rule?
(Blackwell PublishingOxfordInglaterra, 2006)
Diversidad de Opiliones (clase: Arachnida) y su asociación con los diferentes tipos de habitats en un bosque tropical de la estación biológica de Cocha Cashu, Parque Nacional del Manu, Perú
(Universidad Nacional de San Antonio Abad del CuscoPE, 2020)
Se analizó la composición de las comunidades de opiliones (Arachnida) en la cuenca del río Manu, en función a su abundancia, dominancia y riqueza de especies; y si existiese algún tipo de asociación a un hábitat específico ...
Revisión sistemática del género Krusa Goodnight y Goodnight 1947 (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Gagrellinae), en México
(Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, 2015-08)
The genus Krusa has registered six species, Hedin et al. (2012) included five species and their results didn't show monophyly for the genus. The genus is formally described in 1947 having as type species K. Mexicana; ...