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THE GUACHARO TARANTULA PSALMOPOEUS LANGENBUCHERI SCHMIDT ET AL. 2006 - ANOTHER SUBSOCIAL TARANTULA SPIDER (ARANEAE, THERAPHOSIDAE)? Rodriguez-Manzanilla, C.J.1 & B.F. Striffler2 1. Museo del Instituto de Zoología Agrícola, Francisco Fernández Yépez (MIZA), Facultad de Agronomía, Universidad Central de Venezuela, Apartado 4579, Maracay 2101, Aragua, Venezuela; 2. Nees-Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, University of Bonn, Germany Social behavior within the order Araneae, involving nest building, prey capture, feeding and brood care, has mostly been observed in araneomorph spiders. Reports on mygalomorph spiders are only scarce and referring to aggregations of members of the families Ctenizidae and Dipluridae (one species now recognized as a Theraphosidae). Within recent years certain stages of social behavior has been also been described for the family Theraphosidae, with the arboreal Poecilotheria from India and Sri Lanka showing the highest level of sociality. In the Neotropics until now only representatives of the fossorial genera (e.g. Holothele, Xenesthis and Pamphobeteus) are known to present a high tolerance exceeding the first three post embryonic instars. In the arboreal Avicularia or Psalmopoeus tolerance generally ends at least with the third stage. Observations of Psalmopoeus langenbucheri in the Venezuelan cloud forest already showed females tolerating older offspring, as well as specimens living relatively close to each other, with several spiders living on the same tree and even adults building the retreats within the same cracks. Under laboratory conditions it could be shown that females and their offspring live communally and feed together on large prey. Contrasting the generally low tolerance of other Psalmopoeus species the Venezuelan species P. langenbucheri shows a very high tolerance, no aggression among each other, very strong interattraction, as well as cooperation in hunting.
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Interactivity kérdés: melyik az a madárpók, amelyik szubszociális, és eredetileg a Dipluridae családban volt? Az abstractban félkövérrel kiemelve).