Argiope savignyi

Taxobox
name = "Argiope savignyi"


image_caption = yellow form from Costa Rica (female)
image_width = 250px
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
subordo = Araneomorphae
familia = Araneidae
subfamilia =
genus = "Argiope"
species = "A. savignyi"
binomial = "Argiope savignyi"
binomial_authority = Levi, 1968
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range_map_width = 250px

"Argiope savignyi" is a species of orb-weaving spider that occurs from Mexico to BoliviaPlatnick 2008] .It was observed to capture and feed on the proboscis bat "Rhynchonycteris naso" in Costa Rica, totally encasing the bat in silk during the course of a day.Timm & Losilla 2007]

"A. savignyi" sometimes spins a silk disc, sometimes a cruciate pattern, and sometimes combines both types [Herberstein "et al." 2000] .

The species is named after French zoologist Marie Jules César Savigny, in whose volumes the name "Argiope" was first published in 1825.

Footnotes

References

* (2000): The functional significance of silk decorations of orb-web spiders: a critical review of the empirical evidence. "Biological Reviews" 75: 649-669. [http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?aid=76415 Abstract]
* (2007): Orb-weaving Spider, "Argiope savignyi" (Araneidae), Predation on the Proboscis Bat "Rhynchonycteris naso" (Emballonuridae). "Caribbean Journal of Science" 43(2): 282-284. [http://caribjsci.org/dec07/43_273d-284d.pdf PDF]
* (2008): [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog/index.html The world spider catalog] , version 8.5. "American Museum of Natural History".

Further reading

* (1968): The spider genera "Gea" and "Argiope" in America (Araneae: Araneidae). "Bull. Mus. comp. Zool. Harv." 136: 319-352.
* (1977): Associations Between Flies and Spiders: Bibiocommensalism and Dipsoparasitism? "Psyche" 84: 150-157. [http://www.hindawi.com/Getpdf.aspx?doi=10.1155/1977/26019 PDF]
* (1985): Prey analysis of four species of tropical orb-weaving spiders (Araneae: Araneidae) and a comparison with araneids of the temperate zone. "Oecologia" 66(4): 580-594. DOI|10.1007/BF00379353
* (1989): Submersion survival in aerial web-weaving spiders from a tropical wet forest. "Journal of Arachnology" 17: 242-245. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v17_n2/JoA_v17_p242.pdf PDF]