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Ecology and courtship behaviour of the wolf spider genus Alopecosa (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Just, Pavel ; Dolejš, Petr (advisor) ; Žďárek, Jan (referee)
In my bachelor thesis, Czech members of the wolf spider genus Alopecosa are discussed. Literature review summarizes our knowledge in ecology of wolf spiders, their life histories, phenology and habitat preference. I concentrated on reproduction of wolf spiders of the genus Alopecosa, especially on their courtship behavior. Recently, spider courtship is studied with focus on multimodal signalling. The review also contains remarks about spiders life cycles, copulation and parental care. Research of courtship of the genus Alopecosa is sligthly neglected, especially when we consider achievements gained by study of the American wolf spiders of the genus Schizocosa. It is necessary to know the taxonomy of the genus Alopecosa, thus some taxonomical remarks about current systematics and phylogeny of family Lycosidae are outlined
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Reproductive behaviour of wolf spiders of the genus Alopecosa (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Just, Pavel ; Dolejš, Petr (advisor) ; Hajer, Jaromír (referee)
In my master's thesis, I deal with reproduction of central European wolf spiders of the genus Alopecosa. Here I present patterns and duration of courtship behaviour and copulation of 15 members of the genus Alopecosa. Such information were never published before. I recognized 17 courtship elements, six of them are described here for the first time. Duration of copulation, number of palpal insertions and number of hematodochal expansions of 15 species were examined. The obtained data were analyzed, courtship and copulations among species and species groups are discussed. Courtship behaviour of two sibling species, A. striatipes and A. mariae, is compared, as well as differences in reproduction of Czech and Italian populations of A. accentuata. Based on courtship behaviour, I propose placing Alopecosa psammophila in a striatipes group. Stridulatory apparatus on male pedipalps was not detected, however, some pegs on vetral side of the abdomen in males of Alopecosa pinteroum were found. These pegs could serve as a source of vibratory signals. The thesis provides some new remarks on ecology of members of the genus Alopecosa and contains faunistical information, including those on the recent occurrence of some of the rarest Czech spiders.
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Ecology and courtship behaviour of the wolf spider genus Alopecosa (Araneae: Lycosidae)
Just, Pavel ; Dolejš, Petr (advisor) ; Žďárek, Jan (referee)
In my bachelor thesis, Czech members of the wolf spider genus Alopecosa are discussed. Literature review summarizes our knowledge in ecology of wolf spiders, their life histories, phenology and habitat preference. I concentrated on reproduction of wolf spiders of the genus Alopecosa, especially on their courtship behavior. Recently, spider courtship is studied with focus on multimodal signalling. The review also contains remarks about spiders life cycles, copulation and parental care. Research of courtship of the genus Alopecosa is sligthly neglected, especially when we consider achievements gained by study of the American wolf spiders of the genus Schizocosa. It is necessary to know the taxonomy of the genus Alopecosa, thus some taxonomical remarks about current systematics and phylogeny of family Lycosidae are outlined
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