Nentwig Wolfgang
Fachbereich Biologie, Universität/Lahnberge, D-3550, Marburg, Federal Republic of Germany.
Oecologia. 1985 Jan;65(2):284-288. doi: 10.1007/BF00379231.
Feeding experiments and prey collections in Panama have shown the tropical spitting spider Scytodes longipes to be a specialized feeder on soft-chitinized arthropods (Diptera, Lepidoptera, Hemiptera, Orthopteroidea, and Araneae); hard-chitinized insects (Hymenoptera, Coleoptera, and Heteroptera) are refused. There is a considerable specialisation on spiders as prey. The unique prey-catching behaviour in which a gummy secretion is spat onto prey items is considered as an important characteristic of this specialisation. Pholcus phalangioides, a pholcid with convergent morphology and a different specialised prey-catching behaviour, is discussed as an ecological equivalent to Scytodes longipes.
在巴拿马进行的喂食实验和猎物采集表明，热带喷液蜘蛛长脚妖面蛛是一种专门捕食软甲化节肢动物（双翅目、鳞翅目、半翅目、直翅总目和蜘蛛目）的捕食者；硬甲化昆虫（膜翅目、鞘翅目和异翅亚目）则被拒食。该蜘蛛对蜘蛛作为猎物具有相当程度的偏好。其独特的捕食行为是将粘性分泌物吐到猎物身上，这被认为是这种偏好的一个重要特征。幽灵蛛，一种形态趋同且具有不同独特捕食行为的幽灵蛛科蜘蛛，被作为长脚妖面蛛的生态等效物种进行了讨论。
