Gelanor siquirres

Gelanor siquirres
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Mimetidae
Genus:	Gelanor
Species:	G. siquirres
Binomial name
	Gelanor siquirres; Benavides & Hormiga, 2016

Gelanor siquirres is a species of neotropical spiders from Costa Rica in the family Mimetidae.^[1]^[2] It hunts by intercepting the lines orb weavers use to start their webs with its own silk lines, pursuing the captured weavers.^[3]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b "Taxon details Gelanor siquirres Benavides & Hormiga, 2016". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-08-26.
^ Benavides, Ligia R.; Hormiga, Gustavo (2016). "Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species<". Zootaxa. 4064 (1): 1–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27395525.
^ Brown, Elizabeth (21 October 2023). "A pirate spider's hunting trick revealed". ScienceNews. Retrieved 9 November 2023.

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[WSC_s54597-1] "Taxon details Gelanor siquirres Benavides & Hormiga, 2016". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2016-08-26.

[BenavidesHormiga2016-2] Benavides, Ligia R.; Hormiga, Gustavo (2016). "Taxonomic revision of the Neotropical pirate spiders of the genus Gelanor Thorell, 1869 (Araneae, Mimetidae) with the description of five new species<". Zootaxa. 4064 (1): 1–72. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4064.1.1. ISSN 1175-5334. PMID 27395525.

[SciNews1021202311-3] Brown, Elizabeth (21 October 2023). "A pirate spider's hunting trick revealed". ScienceNews. Retrieved 9 November 2023.

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