Loading the male pedipalps: sperm induction in a subsocial spider

Carolina Rojas Buffet; Carmen Viera

doi:10.1636/J15-57.1

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1 April 2016 Loading the male pedipalps: sperm induction in a subsocial spider

Carolina Rojas Buffet, Carmen Viera

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The J. of Arachnology, 44(1):96-98 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1636/J15-57.1

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Detailed descriptions of sperm induction are rare in the literature. Anelosimus vierae Agnarsson, 2012 (Theridiidae) is a Uruguayan subsocial spider that lives in communal nests. This paper describes the sperm induction of this species under laboratory conditions. We collected spiders in Montevideo, Uruguay, from different trees and placed them in thirty male and female pairs in Petri dishes to observe the occurrence of sperm induction. We witnessed twenty-two males performing sperm induction after copulation. Sperm web characteristics and description of the male's behavior during sperm induction are described.

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Carolina Rojas Buffet and Carmen Viera "Loading the male pedipalps: sperm induction in a subsocial spider," The Journal of Arachnology 44(1), 96-98, (1 April 2016). https://doi.org/10.1636/J15-57.1

Received: 28 July 2015; Published: 1 April 2016

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