Volume 47, Number 1,
February 2001:
Checklist of Kansas Jumping Spiders

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ABOUT THIS ISSUE
- about KSN
- about the authors

IN THIS ISSUE
- introduction
- life cycle
- annotated list of Kansas jumping spiders
- salticid spider bite
- mimicry
- enemies: predators and parasites
- care and maintenance of jumping spiders in the lab
- references

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Checklist of Kansas Jumping Spiders
by Hank Guarisco, Bruce Cutler, and Kenneth E. Kinman

AUTHORS:

Hank Guarisco, P.O. Box 3171, Lawrence Kansas 66046 is a free-lance biologist and research associate of the Kansas Biological Survey who has studied the natural history of Kansas spiders for over 25 years.

Bruce Cutler, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Haworth Hall, University of Kansas, 1200 Sunnyside Avenue, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-7534 is the director of the Microscopy and Electronic Imaging Lab and a courtesy professor in EEB.

Kenneth E. Kinman, 2010 Patio Drive, Hays, Kansas 67601.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:
We thank the Kansas Biological Survey for providing research equipment, the University of Kansas Department of Entomology for providing laboratory space, the K.U. Herbarium for the use of a microscope and camera, and Henry S. Fitch of the University of Kansas for critically reviewing the manuscript.