TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2020//
TI  - The first report of matriphagy in stegodyphus pacificus pocock 19
JO  - Acta Arachnologica
A1  - Tripathi, R.
A1  - Jangid, A.K.
A1  - Siliwal, M.
A1  - Dutta, S.
SP  - 17
EP  - 21
VL  - 69
IS  - 1
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0001-5202
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2476/asjaa.69.17
ID  - ref1
ER  -