Do ladybird spiders really mimic ladybird beetles?

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Authors	RAŠKA Jan PEKÁR Stanislav
Year of publication	2019
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Science
Citation
Web	https://academic.oup.com/biolinnean/article-abstract/126/1/168/5210438?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/bly152
Keywords	aposematism; Araneae; Batesian mimicry; Coccinellidae; Eresus
Description	We therefore aimed to identify potential models of two ladybird spider species, the spring-breeding Eresus moravicus and the autumn-breeding Eresus kollari, by assessing the co-occurence and similarity of the spiders and their putative models.