Abstract: A Behavioral and evolutionary strategy adapted by female spiders in the form of parental care to raise their young ones in few rare species of spiders were studied over a period of one year (August 2015 to August 2016). While going through the field work and study of biodiversity of Dakshina Kannada spiders, the parental care exhibited by the female spiders 1) Thelcticopis species of family Sparassidae 2) Acantheis species of Cteneidae family and 3) Brettus cingulatus species of Salticidae family were observed and studied. The results revealed that, all these species showed the parental investment of efforts to take care of their young ones was very prominent and evident even though the behavioral pattern varied from species to species.
Keywords: Ctenidae, Dakshina Kannada, Parental Care, Salticidae, Sparrassidae, Spiders.
Title: Study of Parental care in Spider species of Sparrassidae, Ctencidae and Salticidae family in Dakshina Kannada District of Karnataka State
Author: Jnaneshwari.S.Joshi, M.Venkateswarlu
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-313X (Print), ISSN 2348-3148 (online)
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