Opportunistic Attempt of Mating in Crab Spiders
Received Date: Jul 13, 2022 / Accepted Date: Aug 08, 2022 / Published Date: Aug 08, 2022
Abstract
Flower crab spiders (Thomisus sp.) have a crab-like habitus hence known as “Crab spider”. It’s first two leg pairs are long and robust. Cephalothorax is truncated with anterior lateral corners strongly and conically protuberant. These tubercles bear the natural eyes. Eyes are small and the abdomen is pentagonal. These spiders hide themselves in plants or flowers to ambush attack on prey visiting the flowers for nectar. On 2nd November 2020 by 01:34 afternoon, I observed the female crab spider (Thomisus sp.) captured the Chestnut Bob butterfly (Lambrix salsala) may be while it was trying to feed on nectar of Jamaican spike flowers at Butterfly garden in the Nature information center of Sanjay Gandhi National park, Borivali East. The crab spider (Thomisus sp.) Completely fed on its prey and the next day 3rd November 2020 the spider was still on the same plant and the prey’s remains was fallen down, And the small brown colored male crab spider was seen on female’s back in urge of mating.
Citation: Mhadgut AH (2022) Opportunistic Attempt of Mating in Crab Spiders. J Ecosys Ecograph 12: 349. Doi: 10.4172/2157-7625.1000349
Copyright: © 2022 Mhadgut AH. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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