Contests between male New Zealand sheet-web spiders, Cambridgea plagiata (Araneae: Desidae)

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Contests between male New Zealand sheet-web spiders, Cambridgea plagiata (Araneae: Desidae)

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Male competition for females can often take the form of direct physical contests. The outcome of a given contest or the decision to persist is determined by the resource holding potential (RHP) of rivals, which often corresponds to body size or weapon size. Males of the endemic New Zealand sheet-web spider Cambridgea plagiata Forster & Wilton 1973 have exaggerated chelicerae that are used in contests to gain access to females. We staged male–male contests in the field to determine the factors...

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14 Apr, 2021

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Josephine E. McCambridge / Christina J. Painting / Leilani A. Walker / Gregory I. Holwell

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Male–male competition / fighting / weaponry / leg loss / sexual selection / Neuroscience / Pharmacology / Biotechnology / Evolutionary Biology / Ecology / Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified / Developmental Biology

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