Adaptive Coloration in AnimalsMethuen & Company, Limited, 1940 - 508 pages |
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... Spiders to Flowers - Many other animals , including various Crustacea and Arachnida , exhibit slow reactions of a similar kind . The Crab - spider Misumena vatia has a considerable capacity for colour - adaptation to different ...
... Spiders to Flowers - Many other animals , including various Crustacea and Arachnida , exhibit slow reactions of a similar kind . The Crab - spider Misumena vatia has a considerable capacity for colour - adaptation to different ...
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... spiders haunt the petals of flowers and there await the arrival of insect visitors . Species in which this habit is ... spiders of the genus Misumena . On Luzon , in Manila , Mortensen came across a white spider with yellow legs ...
... spiders haunt the petals of flowers and there await the arrival of insect visitors . Species in which this habit is ... spiders of the genus Misumena . On Luzon , in Manila , Mortensen came across a white spider with yellow legs ...
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... Spiders . Amer . Nat . , XXII , pp . 545-6 . I BADOCK , H. D. 1917. Ant - like Spiders from Malaya , collected by the Annandale- Robinson Expedition , 1901-2 . Proc . Zool . Soc . London , pp . 277–321 , 12 figs . BAKER , E. C. STUART ...
... Spiders . Amer . Nat . , XXII , pp . 545-6 . I BADOCK , H. D. 1917. Ant - like Spiders from Malaya , collected by the Annandale- Robinson Expedition , 1901-2 . Proc . Zool . Soc . London , pp . 277–321 , 12 figs . BAKER , E. C. STUART ...
Contents
SEASONAL DIMORPHISM | 17 |
MORPHOLOGICAL COLOUR | 24 |
OBLITERATIVE SHADING | 35 |
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