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Portia labiata, the Glossary

Portia labiata is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in Sri Lanka, India, southern China, Burma (Myanmar), Malaysia, Singapore, Java, Sumatra and the Philippines.^[1]

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Spiders described in 1887

Abseiling

Abseiling, also known as rappelling, is the controlled descent of a steep slope, such as a rock face, by moving down a rope.

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Adrian Tchaikovsky

Adrian Czajkowski (spelt as Adrian Tchaikovsky for his books; born June 1972) is a British fantasy and science fiction author.

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Amaurobiidae

Amaurobiidae is a family of three-clawed cribellate or ecribellate spiders found in crevices and hollows or under stones where they build retreats, and are often collected in pitfall traps.

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Amino acid

Amino acids are organic compounds that contain both amino and carboxylic acid functional groups.

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Ant

Ants are eusocial insects of the family Formicidae and, along with the related wasps and bees, belong to the order Hymenoptera.

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Antenna (biology)

Antennae (antenna), sometimes referred to as "feelers", are paired appendages used for sensing in arthropods.

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Arthropod

Arthropods are invertebrates in the phylum Arthropoda.

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Bagheera kiplingi

Bagheera kiplingi is a species of jumping spider found in Central America, including Mexico, Costa Rica, and Guatemala.

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Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweight skeleton.

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Brettus

Brettus is a genus of jumping spiders.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food.

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Cat

The cat (Felis catus), commonly referred to as the domestic cat or house cat, is a small domesticated carnivorous mammal.

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Children of Time (novel)

Children of Time is a 2015 science fiction novel by author Adrian Tchaikovsky.

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China

China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia.

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Clade

In biological phylogenetics, a clade, also known as a monophyletic group or natural group, is a grouping of organisms that are monophyletic – that is, composed of a common ancestor and all its lineal descendants – on a phylogenetic tree.

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Courtship

Courtship is the period wherein some couples get to know each other prior to a possible marriage or committed romantic, de facto relationship.

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Cribellum

Cribellum literally means "little sieve", and in biology the term generally applies to anatomical structures in the form of tiny perforated plates.

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Cuticle

A cuticle, or cuticula, is any of a variety of tough but flexible, non-mineral outer coverings of an organism, or parts of an organism, that provide protection.

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Cyrba

Cyrba is a genus of spiders in the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

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Diacamma

Diacamma is a genus of queenless ants belonging to the subfamily Ponerinae.

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Digital object identifier

A digital object identifier (DOI) is a persistent identifier or handle used to uniquely identify various objects, standardized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).

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DNA

Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is a polymer composed of two polynucleotide chains that coil around each other to form a double helix.

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Dragonfly

A dragonfly is a flying insect belonging to the infraorder Anisoptera below the order Odonata.

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Egg

An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches.

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Ejaculation

Ejaculation is the discharge of semen (the ejaculate; normally containing sperm) through the urethra in men.

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Enzyme

Enzymes are proteins that act as biological catalysts by accelerating chemical reactions.

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Family (biology)

Family (familia,: familiae) is one of the nine major hierarchical taxonomic ranks in Linnaean taxonomy.

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Frog

A frog is any member of a diverse and largely carnivorous group of short-bodied, tailless amphibians composing the order Anura (coming from the Ancient Greek ἀνούρα, literally 'without tail').

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Genus

Genus (genera) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family as used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses.

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Herbivore

A herbivore is an animal anatomically and physiologically adapted to eating plant material, for example foliage or marine algae, for the main component of its diet.

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Holcolaetis

Holcolaetis is a genus of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

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Holocnemus pluchei

Holocnemus pluchei, commonly known as the marbled cellar spider, is a species of Pholcidae, a family commonly referred to as "cellar spiders" or "daddy long-legs". This species is distributed across the North Pacific region of the United States, as well as in parts of North Africa, Europe, and the Mediterranean.

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong is a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China.

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Housefly

The housefly (Musca domestica) is a fly of the suborder Cyclorrhapha.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Insect

Insects (from Latin insectum) are hexapod invertebrates of the class Insecta.

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Instar

An instar (from the Latin īnstar 'form, likeness') is a developmental stage of arthropods, such as insects, which occurs between each moult (ecdysis) until sexual maturity is reached.

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Irene Pepperberg

Irene Maxine Pepperberg (born April 1, 1949) is an American scientist noted for her studies in animal cognition, particularly in relation to parrots.

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Java

Java is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia.

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Jumping spider

Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae.

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Lion

The lion (Panthera leo) is a large cat of the genus Panthera, native to Africa and India.

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Lipid

Lipids are a broad group of organic compounds which include fats, waxes, sterols, fat-soluble vitamins (such as vitamins A, D, E and K), monoglycerides, diglycerides, phospholipids, and others.

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Los Baños, Laguna

Los Baños (IPA: lɔs bɐˈɲɔs), officially the Municipality of Los Baños (Bayan ng Los Baños), colloquialy 'elbi' or simply LB, is a 1st class municipality in the province of Laguna, Philippines.

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Lyssomaninae

Lyssomaninae is a subfamily of jumping spiders.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a country in Southeast Asia.

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Mantis

Mantises are an order (Mantodea) of insects that contains over 2,400 species in about 460 genera in 33 families.

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Molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is the branch of phylogeny that analyzes genetic, hereditary molecular differences, predominantly in DNA sequences, to gain information on an organism's evolutionary relationships.

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Moulting

In biology, moulting (British English), or molting (American English), also known as sloughing, shedding, or in many invertebrates, ecdysis, is a process by which an animal casts off parts of its body to serve some beneficial purpose, either at specific times of the year, or at specific points in its life cycle.

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Myanmar

Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar and also known as Burma (the official name until 1989), is a country in Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and has a population of about 55 million. It is bordered by Bangladesh and India to its northwest, China to its northeast, Laos and Thailand to its east and southeast, and the Andaman Sea and the Bay of Bengal to its south and southwest.

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Nectar

Nectar is a viscous, sugar-rich liquid produced by plants in glands called nectaries, either within the flowers with which it attracts pollinating animals, or by extrafloral nectaries, which provide a nutrient source to animal mutualists, which in turn provide herbivore protection.

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Odontomachus

Odontomachus is a genus of ants commonly called trap-jaw ants found in the tropics and subtropics throughout the world.

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Oecophylla smaragdina

Oecophylla smaragdina (common names include Asian weaver ant, weaver ant, green ant, green tree ant, semut rangrang, semut kerangga, and orange gaster) is a species of arboreal ant found in tropical Asia and Australia.

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Pedipalp

Pedipalps (commonly shortened to palps or palpi) are the secondary pair of forward appendages among chelicerates – a group of arthropods including spiders, scorpions, horseshoe crabs, and sea spiders.

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Phaeacius

Phaeacius is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders), found in sub-tropical China and between India and the Malay Peninsula, including Sri Lanka, Sumatra and the Philippines.

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Pheromone

A pheromone is a secreted or excreted chemical factor that triggers a social response in members of the same species.

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Philippines

The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.

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Philoponella

Philoponella is a genus of uloborid spiders.

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Pholcus

Pholcus is a genus of spiders of long-bodied cellar spider and allies in the family Pholcidae, with 375 described species as of January 2023.

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Pollen

Pollen is a powdery substance produced by most types of flowers of seed plants for the purpose of sexual reproduction.

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Portia (spider)

Portia is a genus of jumping spider that feeds on other spiders (i.e., they are araneophagic or arachnophagic).

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Portia africana

Portia africana is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in Angola, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Gabon, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone, Zaire and Zambia.

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Portia fimbriata

Portia fimbriata, sometimes called the fringed jumping spider, is a jumping spider (family Salticidae) found in Australia and Southeast Asia.

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Portia schultzi

Portia schultzi is a species of jumping spider which ranges from South Africa in the south to Kenya in the north, and also is found in West Africa and Madagascar.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Primitive (phylogenetics)

In phylogenetics, a primitive (or ancestral) character, trait, or feature of a lineage or taxon is one that is inherited from the common ancestor of a clade (or clade group) and has undergone little change since.

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Queensland

Queensland (commonly abbreviated as Qld) is a state in northeastern Australia, the second-largest and third-most populous of the Australian states.

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Rainforest

Rainforests are forests characterized by a closed and continuous tree canopy, moisture-dependent vegetation, the presence of epiphytes and lianas and the absence of wildfire.

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Sagada

Sagada, officially the Municipality of Sagada is a 5th class municipality in the province of Mountain Province, Philippines.

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Salticinae

Salticinae is a subfamily of jumping spiders (family Salticidae).

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Scavenger

Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.

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Scytodes

Scytodes is a genus of spitting spiders that occur all around the world.

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Seta

In biology, setae (seta; from the Latin word for "bristle") are any of a number of different bristle- or hair-like structures on living organisms.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.

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Spartaeinae

The Spartaeinae are a subfamily of the spider family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

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Spartaeus

Spartaeus is a genus of Asian jumping spiders that was first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1891.

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Spider silk

Spider silk is a protein fibre or silk spun by spiders.

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Spider web

A spider web, spiderweb, spider's web, or cobweb (from the archaic word coppe, meaning "spider") is a structure created by a spider out of proteinaceous spider silk extruded from its spinnerets, generally meant to catch its prey.

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Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka, historically known as Ceylon, and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia.

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Sumatra

Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia.

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Tamerlan Thorell

Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist.

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Territory (animal)

In ethology, territory is the sociographical area that an animal consistently defends against conspecific competition (or, occasionally, against animals of other species) using agonistic behaviors or (less commonly) real physical aggression.

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Theridiidae

Theridiidae, also known as the tangle-web spiders, cobweb spiders and comb-footed spiders, is a large family of araneomorph spiders first described by Carl Jakob Sundevall in 1833.

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Tree of life (biology)

The tree of life or universal tree of life is a metaphor, conceptual model, and research tool used to explore the evolution of life and describe the relationships between organisms, both living and extinct, as described in a famous passage in Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species (1859).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portia_labiata

Also known as Erasinus labiatus, Linus dentipalpis, Linus labiatus, Portia dentipalpis, White mustached portia.

, Odontomachus, Oecophylla smaragdina, Pedipalp, Phaeacius, Pheromone, Philippines, Philoponella, Pholcus, Pollen, Portia (spider), Portia africana, Portia fimbriata, Portia schultzi, Predation, Primitive (phylogenetics), Queensland, Rainforest, Sagada, Salticinae, Scavenger, Scytodes, Seta, Singapore, Spartaeinae, Spartaeus, Spider silk, Spider web, Sri Lanka, Sumatra, Tamerlan Thorell, Territory (animal), Theridiidae, Tree of life (biology), Trial and error, Tropics, Ultraviolet, Vitamin, Warsaw.

Portia labiata, the Glossary

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Spiders described in 1887

References