Capturing the elusive camel spider (Arachnida: Solifugae): effective methods for attracting and capturing solifuges
Capturing the elusive camel spider (Arachnida: Solifugae): effective methods for attracting and capturing solifuges
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DOI：
10.1636/joa-s-17-067.1
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发表时间：
2018-08-01
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通讯作者：
Gonzalez-Santillan, Edmundo
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作者：
Cushing, Paula E.;Gonzalez-Santillan, Edmundo
骆驼蜘蛛（蛛形纲：Solifugae）是众所周知难以研究的蛛形纲动物。它们几乎都是夜间活动、快速移动的掠食者，很难发现、收集和饲养。在本文中，我们提出了利用光吸引和陷阱诱捕技术相结合的方法，在沙漠野外吸引溶虫并有效收集它们。尽管这些方法中的许多方法已经被溶胶收集者使用了几十年，但它们通常没有在文献中详细描述，也没有将这些方法合并在一篇论文中。我们希望这样做能让其他人更有效地瞄准这一类蜘蛛。
Camel spiders (Arachnida: Solifugae) are a notoriously difficult group of arachnids to study. They are almost all strictly nocturnal, fast moving predators that are difficult to find, collect, and rear. In this paper, we present methods for both attracting solifuges in desert field sites and collecting them efficiently using a combination of light attraction and pitfall trapping techniques. Although many of these methods have been used by solifuge collectors for decades, they are not typically described in detail in the literature nor have the methods been consolidated in a single paper. We hope that doing so will enable others to more efficiently target this group of arachnids.