Meaning of arachnophagic | Babel Free

Definitions

Spider-eating.

not-comparable

Examples

“Though ordinarily arachnophagic (Jackson & Brassington 1987; Jackson & Rowe 1987) a female P. phalangioides will feed⟳ her young, (Bonizzi 1869; pers. obs.) so the mother was maintained with her brood until a further cocoon was laid.”

“In the alternative predator defence hypothesis, the signal receivers are the spiders’ predators such as wasps, parasitic flies, praying mantises, arachnophagic jumping spiders that have⟳ acute visual senses or birds (Wise 1993).”

“At present⟳, they are mainly divided into two types: kleptoparasitic (Plokiophilidae, the genus Ranzovius Distant, 1893 of Miridae, Arachnocoris) and arachnophagic (Emesinae) (Soley et al. 2011; Mercado and Santiago-Blay 2015; Schuh and Weirauch 2020).”

CEFR level