THE ONTOGENY OF BEHAVIOR IN PORTIA-FIMBRIATA, PORTIA-LABIATA AND PORTIA-SCHULTZI, WEB-BUILDING JUMPING SPIDERS (ARANEAE, SALTICIDAE)
THE ONTOGENY OF BEHAVIOR IN PORTIA-FIMBRIATA, PORTIA-LABIATA AND PORTIA-SCHULTZI, WEB-BUILDING JUMPING SPIDERS (ARANEAE, SALTICIDAE)
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DOI:
10.1111/j.1469-7998.1988.tb04897.x
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发表时间:
1988-06-01
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2
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HALLAS, SEA
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HALLAS, SEA
The ontogeny of behaviour of three species of primitive, web-building salticids, Portia fimbriata, P. labiata and P. schultzi, was studied to investigate the genetic basis for interspecific differences in adult behaviour and the development of the behaviour of these species. One set of juvenile Portia was reared to determine the normal course of behavioural development. A second was subjected to experimental manipulations which deprived them of specific experiences relevant to the performance of key behaviours: web building; a specific pattern of araneophagy using vibratory behaviours in aggressive mimicry; kleptoparasitism of prey items (insects) from alien webs; and oophagy (feeding on eggs of other spiders). Spiders that were naive with respect to specific key behaviours were tested as third instars. Juveniles consistently performed behaviours under investigation and their repertories were species-specific from hatching to maturity with these exceptions: first and second instars did not raise leaves into their large Type 2 webs, and subadult males did not build Type 2 webs at all. Even when deprived of experience with a particular type of prey, juveniles performed behaviours appropriate to the prey when presented with them for the first time. Behaviour patterns are, therefore, like morphology in that they are potentially valuable in discussions of salticid evolution. Results are generally supportive of the Jackson and Blest hypothesis in which Portia is more like ancestral salticids than typical cursorial salticids.