Notes on the Courtship and Mating Habits of the Wolf Spider Lycosa helluo Walckenaer
- 1 October 1965
- journal article
- research article
- Published by JSTOR in The American Midland Naturalist
- Vol. 74 (2) , 368-+
- https://doi.org/10.2307/2423267
Abstract
The courtship behavior of Lycosa helluo was observed 17 times and copulation 9. The attitude of the copulatory embrace is similar to that observed in other lycosids. The duration of palpal insertion ranged from ? to 65 seconds, and the duration of copulation from 5 to 18 minutes. Based on the number of individuals collected in copula in Connecticut, it would appear that the mating period ranges from 12 May to 26 July, with mating occurring most often in June.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: