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

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- about KSN
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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

REFERENCES
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2. Barnes, RD 1958. North American jumping spiders of the subfamily Marpissinae (Araneae, Salticidae). American Mus. Novitates 1867: 1-50.
3. Brignoli, P.M. 1983. A Catalogue of the Araneae Described Between 1940 and 1981. (Ed.) P. Merrett. Manchester Univ. Press, Manchester. 755 pp.
4. Cokendolpher, J.C. and N.V. Horner. 1978. The spider genus Poultonella. (Araneae: Salticidae). J. Arachnol. 6(2): 133-139.
5. Cragin, F.W. 1886. First contribution to a knowledge of the Arachnida of Kansas. Washburn Coll. Lab. Nat. Hist. Bull. 1(4): 145-146.
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10. Edwards, G.B. 1999. The genus Attidops (Araneae: Salticidae) J. Arachnol. 27(1): 7-15.
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