A style for ants: potential obligate myrmecophagy in Lasaeola (Araneae: Theridiidae)
Summary
Ant predation (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by the genus Lasaeola Simon, 1881 is a behaviour sporadically reported within the scientific literature and regularly noticed in photographs uploaded to varied on-line platforms. Whereas these scattered observations affirm the
existence of this predator-prey interplay, a scientific evaluation of those observations has by no means been undertaken. Right here, we current the
first formal evaluation and compilation of documented instances of myrmecophagy in Lasaeola, offering proof that obligate ant predation
is a probable foraging technique for this genus.
A style for ants: potential obligate myrmecophagy in Lasaeola (Araneae: Theridiidae),
Dentici A & Bianco VFL (2025), Eine Vorliebe für Ameisen: Potentielle obligate Myrmekophagie durch die Gattung Lasaeola (Araneae: Theridiidae), Heft 70, 24-28 10.30963/aramit7005
