TY - JOUR T1 - Three new species of the genus Neophyllomyza Melander (Diptera, Milichiidae) from China, with a revised key to the Chinese species Y1 - 2019 DO - https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.867.36247 A1 - Xi, Yuqiang A1 - Yang, Ding A1 - Yin, Xin-Ming KW - Diptera KW - key to chinese species KW - Milichiidae KW - morphology KW - Neophyllomyza KW - taxonomy AB -

Three new species of the genus Neophyllomyza, N. clavipalpis sp. nov., N. motuoensis sp. nov., and N. obtusa sp. nov., are described from China. A revised key to the six Chinese species of Neophyllomyza is also presented.

ER - TY - JOUR T1 - Web gigantism in Darwin's bark spider, a new species from Madagascar JF - Journal of Arachnology Y1 - 2010 DO - http://dx.doi.org/10.1636/B09-113.1 A1 - Kuntner, M A1 - Agnarsson, I SP - 346 EP - 356 KW - Diversity KW - DNA barcode KW - genital mutilation KW - kleptoparasitism KW - morphology KW - orb web architecture KW - sexual behavior KW - sexual size dimorphism AB -

The remarkable bark spiders (genus Caerostris: Araneidae) are poorly known Old World tropical orb-weavers, those diversity, currently at 11 species, is grossly underestimated. Most species build large webs at forest edges, clearings, and gardens, but in Madagascar, probably the hot spot of Caerostris diversity, at least one species occupies a unique ecological niche: casting its web across streams, rivers and lakes, so that the orb is suspended above water and attached to substrate on each riverbank via bridgelines up to 25 m. Here, we summarize current knowledge on Caerostris natural history, and specifically focus on the remarkable web architecture and biology of the newly described Caerostris darwini n. sp. Darwin’s bark spider builds its web, a regular orb suspended above water, and maintains it with daily reinforcing of bridgelines and renewal of orb for many days. Web size ranged from 900–28,000 cm2, with the largest measured web of about 2.8 m2 being the largest orb ever measured, to our knowledge. With anchor lines capable of bridging over 25 m, it also builds the longest webs among all spiders—a unique form of web gigantism. We report on mass capture of ephemeropteran prey items in C. darwini n. sp. webs during a single day. Webs contained up to 32 mayflies that were subsequently wrapped en masse before the spider fed on them. We also provide the first evidence of kleptoparasitism in these webs both by other spiders (Argyrodinae) and by newly documented, undescribed symbiotic flies. Caerostris display extreme sexual size dimorphism with large females and small males, which is manifested in enigmatic sexual behaviors such as mate guarding, male-male aggressiveness, genital mutilation, mate plugging, and self castration. Caerostris is thus a promising candidate for evolutionary studies, and its diversity, biology, and phylogenetic relationships all deserve a closer scrutiny.

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