@article{ref1,
title="The first report of matriphagy in stegodyphus pacificus pocock 19",
journal="Acta Arachnologica",
year="2020",
author="Tripathi, R. and Jangid, A.K. and Siliwal, M. and Dutta, S.",
volume="69",
number="1",
pages="17-21",
abstract="Here we report and describe matriphagy (maternal self-sacrifice) phenomenon in Stegodyphus pacificus Pocock 1900, observed in Thar Desert of Rajasthan, India. All 57 nests observed during the study exhibited matriphagy. Typically, a female laid a cluster of about 100 eggs and spiderlings hatched nearly 33 days after the egg-laying. Around 17 days after hatching, spiderlings started feeding on their mother. Spiderlings dispersed from the nest after the death of the mother, roughly 84 days since egg-laying. While matriphagy has been known in some spider species, this phenomenon has not been reported or described in S. pacificus. © 2020, Arachnological Society of Japan. All rights reserved.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0001-5202",
doi="10.2476/asjaa.69.17",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.69.17"
}