Orb-weaving Spider, Argiope savignyi (Araneidae), Predation on the Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycteris naso (Emballonuridae)

Robert M. Timm; Mauricio Losilla

doi:10.18475/cjos.v43i2.a1

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Robert M. Timm,¹ Mauricio Losilla²

¹Natural History Museum and Biodiversity Research Center & Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045-7561, USA;
²Escuela de Biología, Universidad de Costa Rica, Ciudad Universitaria, Costa Rica. Corresponding author: btimm@ku.edu

Abstract

We report an observation of an orbweaving spider (Argiope savignyi; Araneidae) capturing and feeding on a proboscis bat (Rhynchonycteris naso; Emballonuridae) at the La Selva Biological Station in the Caribbean lowlands of Costa Rica. This observation and others suggest that spiders prey upon small bats more frequently than has been noted previously, and that invertebrates should now be considered as regular predators on small bats.

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Robert M. Timm and Mauricio Losilla "Orb-weaving Spider, Argiope savignyi (Araneidae), Predation on the Proboscis Bat Rhynchonycterisnaso (Emballonuridae)," Caribbean Journal of Science 43(2), 282-284, (1 December 2007). https://doi.org/10.18475/cjos.v43i2.a1

Received: 29 August 2006; Accepted: 23 April 2007; Published: 1 December 2007

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