Safer sex with feeding females: sexual conflict in a cannibalistic spider

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Genital damage in the orb-web spider Argiope bruennichi (Araneae: Araneidae) increases paternity success (2007, background): “Sexual cannibalism is expected to exert a strong selective force on males (reviewed by Elgar and Schneider 2005; Prenter et al. 2006) although to date only few studies identified male strategies that prevent a successful female attack (Moya-Laran˜o et al. 2004; Fromhage and Schneider 2005a; Bilde ”
Emasculation to plug up females: the significance of pedipalp damage in Nephila fenestrata (2006, background): “If an N. fenestrata female mates with two males, the relative number of copulatory insertions achieved per male predicts paternity (Fromhage and Schneider, 2005a).”
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).”