Fitness consequences of sexual cannibalism in female Argiope bruennichi

By L. Fromhage, G. Uhl, Jutta M. Schneider. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 2003

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Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity (2008, background): “…the frequency of sexual cannibalism is not affected by female feeding condition (Herberstein et al. 2002; Johnson 2005a; Prokop and Vaclav 2005), reproductive status (Schneider et al. 2000; Schneider and Elgar 2001), or male size (Fromhage et al. 2003; Johnson 2005b; Schneider et al. 2006).”
Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider (2005, result): “This result is in accordance with findings from other spiders with strong sexual size dimorphism (Andrade, 1996; Elgar et al., 2000; Fromhage et al., 2003).”
Genital damage in the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae) increases paternity success (2007, background): “Males with no prior mating experience will generally try to survive their first copulation but only 20% of males succeed (Fromhage et al. 2003; Schneider et al. 2005b).”