A velvet worm (Peripatus sp., Peripatidae) was observed and photographed while feeding on a theraphosid spider, Hapalopus butantan (Pérez-Miles, 1998). The present note is the first report of an onychophoran feeding on “giant” spider.
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1 April 2009
First record of an onychophoran (Onychophora, Peripatidae) feeding on a theraphosid spider (Araneae, Theraphosidae)
Sidclay C. Dias,
Nancy F. Lo-Man-Hung
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