The Journal of Arachnology, Vol. 18, No. 3 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 263-269 (7 pages) The fitness of Frontinella pyramitela (Walckenaer) (Araneae, Linyphiidae) is, by definition, a function of its lifetime ...

1. The Linyphiid spider Frontinella communis changes its orientation from random with respect to the sun (Fig. 1A) to aligned with the rays of the sun (Fig. 1B) on days when both insolation and ...

This paper provides the first numerical cladistic analysis of erigonine phylogenetic relationships based on a sample of taxa. A total of 73 characters, most of them morphological, have been scored for ...

Some of the most commonly encountered spiders on Earth belong to the the family Linyphiidae. Yet much about the family’s estimated 4,400 species remains a mystery, due in no small part to the fact ...