Costs of courtship and mating in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider: female mating strategies and their consequences for males

By Marie E. Herberstein, Jutta M. Schneider, M. Elgar. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2002

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Subfields: Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Genetics

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Changes in male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider (Araneae: Araneidae) (2004, background): “Second, virgin females are more receptive to courting males than mated females ( Herberstein et al., 2002 ), and thus males may reduce the risk of pre-mating sexual cannibalism by preferring to approach virgin females.”
Fitness consequences of sexual cannibalism in female Argiope bruennichi (2003, background): “Contrary to the congeneric Argiope keyserlingi (Herberstein et al. 2002) and the redback spider Latrodectus hasselti (Andrade 1998), cannibalistic behaviour of A. bruennichi females was not related to their nutritional condition.”
Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider (2005, background): “It is known that males in several spider species can discriminate between virgin and mated females using olfactory cues (Herberstein et al., 2002; Schulz and Toft, 1993).”
Phylogeny of extant nephilid orb‐weaving spiders (Araneae, Nephilidae): testing morphological and ethological homologies (2008, background): “Intersexual conflict is well documented in spiders but mostly in single species, and not in a phylogenetic context (Elgar, 1991; Schneider and Lubin, 1998; Schneider and Elgar, 2001, 2002; Herberstein et al., 2002; Fromhage and Schneider, 2005b; Schneider et al., 2006).”
Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity (2008, background): “Numerous studies lend support to one or more of these predictions (Liske and Davis 1987; Birkhead et al. 1988; Andrade 1996; Elgar and Fahey 1996; Maxwell 2000; Schneider and Elgar 2001; Herberstein et al. 2002; Johnson 2005a).”