Nuptial gift in the spider Pisaura mirabilis maintained by sexual selection

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Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider (2005, background): “A widespread function of nuptial feeding is the prolongation of copulation (Stalhandske, 2001; Vahed, 1998), which would also seem to be a plausible function of opportunistic mating in spiders.”
Changes in male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic orb-web spider (Araneae: Araneidae) (2004, background): “Male reproductive costs include the production of ejaculates (Dewsbury, 1982; Simmons, 1993; Wedell et al., 2002), nuptial gifts (Wedell, 1993; Vahed, 1998; Stalhandske, 2001 ), expensive courtship displays or copulatory efforts (Kotiaho et al., 1998), and injury or death through sexual cannibalism”
Evolutionary Significance of Sexual Cannibalism (2004, unknown): “nuptial gift Female fecundity None Stälhandske (2001)”