Madagascar: an unexpected hotspot of social Anelosimus spider diversity (Araneae: Theridiidae)
@article{Agnarsson2005MadagascarAU, title={Madagascar: an unexpected hotspot of social Anelosimus spider diversity (Araneae: Theridiidae)}, author={I. Agnarsson and M. Kuntner}, journal={Systematic Entomology}, year={2005}, volume={30} }
Abstract. The spider genus Anelosimus Simon, 1891 (Theridiidae) currently contains over forty described species, found worldwide in tropical to warm temperate areas. American Anelosimus are all social, a rare trait among spiders, but social behaviour has not been reported for Anelosimus species elsewhere. Old World Anelosimus are poorly known, both behaviourally and taxonomically, and no Anelosimus species have yet been described from sub‐Saharan Africa or Madagascar. Based on a preliminary… CONTINUE READING
40 Citations
Systematics of new subsocial and solitary Australasian Anelosimus species (Araneae : Theridiidae)
- Biology
- Invertebrate Systematics
- 2012
- 13
- PDF
A revision of the New World eximius lineage of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae) and a phylogenetic analysis using worldwide exemplars
- Biology
- 2006
- 105
- PDF
Systematics of the Madagascar Anelosimus spiders: remarkable local richness and endemism, and dual colonization from the Americas
- Biology, Medicine
- ZooKeys
- 2015
- 15
- Highly Influenced
- PDF
Revision and phylogenetic analysis of American ethicus and rupununi groups of Anelosimus (Araneae, Theridiidae)
- Biology
- 2005
- 37
- PDF
A new phylogeny of Anelosimus and the placement and behavior of Anelosimus vierae n. sp. from Uruguay (Araneae: Theridiidae)
- Biology
- 2012
- 19
- PDF
Notes on the biology of Anelosimus pacificus Levi, 1963 (Theridiidae, Araneae)—evidence for an evolutionary reversal to a less social state
- Biology
- 2006
- 13
- PDF
New species of Anelosimus (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Africa and Southeast Asia, with notes on sociality and color polymorphism
- Biology
- 2006
- 21
- PDF
Altitudinal Patterns of Spider Sociality and the Biology of a New Midelevation Social Anelosimus Species in Ecuador
- Biology, Medicine
- The American Naturalist
- 2007
- 72
- PDF
References
SHOWING 1-10 OF 46 REFERENCES
Revision of the spider-comnensal plant bug genus Ranzovius distant (Heteroptera: Miridae)
- Biology
- 1984
- 13
- Highly Influential
- PDF
Natal dispersal patterns of a subsocial spider Anelosimus cf. jucundus (Theridiidae)
- Biology
- 2003
- 49
- Highly Influential
- PDF
Two cooperatively social populations of the theridiid spiderAnelosimus studiosusin a temperate region
- Biology, Medicine
- Animal Behaviour
- 1998
- 83
SHARING A WEB—ON THE RELATION OF SOCIALITY AND KLEPTOPARASITISM IN THERIDIID SPIDERS (THERIDIIDAE, ARANEAE)
- Biology
- 2002
- 49
- Highly Influential
- PDF
Morphological phylogeny of cobweb spiders and their relatives (Araneae, Araneoidea, Theridiidae)
- Biology
- 2004
- 224
- Highly Influential
- PDF
Spiders of the families Theridiidae, Tetragnathidae and Araneidae (Arachnida: Araneae) from Aldabra atoll
- Biology
- 1983
- 19
- PDF