On the Origin of Mating Behavior in Spiders
- 1 September 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by University of Chicago Press in The American Naturalist
- Vol. 91 (860) , 311-317
- https://doi.org/10.1086/281992
Abstract
In the mating of spiders spermatic fluid is first deposited before being taken up by the palpal organs of the male for introduction into the female. From a comparative survey of the mating habits of other arachnids, it is suggested that ancestral spiders transfered sperm to the female by way of a spermatophore deposited on the substratum, but that, with the development of a web-spinning habit, the spermatophore was lost.This publication has 1 reference indexed in Scilit:
- The Life Cycle and Mating Habits of the Male TarantulaThe Quarterly Review of Biology, 1928