- 著者
- João Gonçalo Soutinho Henrique Couto Franco Andreone Angelica Crottini Gonçalo M. Rosa
- 出版者
- Arachnological Society of Japan
- 雑誌
- Acta Arachnologica (ISSN:00015202)
- 巻号頁・発行日
- vol.67, no.1, pp.31-33, 2018-08-31 (Released:2018-09-05)
- 参考文献数
- 22
- 被引用文献数
- 1
Although laboratory trials suggest that stick insects (Phasmatodea) are a highly palatable prey group for spiders, field observations confirming this hypothesis are very rare. We report on a predatory event involving a huntsman spider of the genus Damastes (Araneae: Sparassidae) on a stick insect of the genus Antongilia (Bacillidae: Antongiliinae) from Madagascar. Despite the anti-predator adaptations that characterise this insect group (e.g. the cryptic camouflage) the stick insect was recognized and overwhelmed by the sparassid spider.