Coelotes terrestris

Coelotes terrestris S Males exhibit courtship on empty female webs Krafft, 1978 Roland, 1984... 

The social spider Mallos gregalis is arrested by ether-soluble components of silk of conspecifics (Jackson, 1982). However, courtship behavior is not released by female silk (Jackson, 1978), in contrast to the behavior seen with silk of female Mallos trivittata (as trivittatus) silk. Male silk is inactive (Jackson, 1978). Coelotes terrestris males recognized female silk or a substratum on which females had been running (Roland, 1984) and males also exhibited courtship on empty female webs (Krafft, 1978). Courtship behavior, mainly vibratory signals in empty female webs, has also been observed in Amaurobius similis and Amaurobius fenestralis. This behavior is only performed on conspecific webs. A third species, Amaurobius ferox, exhibited no responses to silk cues (Krafft, 1978). 

Coelotes terrestris (Wider) silk and cuticle Krafft, 1978 Roland, 1984 Trabalon and Assi-Bessekon, 2008... 

Assi-Bessekon, D. (1997). Intraspecific identification and tolerance in the social maternal behaviour of Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae). Behav. Process., 39, 231-239. 

Gundermann, J.L., Horel, A. and Krafft, B. (1993). Experimental manipulation of social tendencies in subsocial spider Coelotes terrestris. Insectes Soc., 40, 219-229. 

Krafft, B., Horel, A. and Julita, J.M. (1986). Influence of food supply on the duration of the gregarious phase of a maternal-social spider, Coelotes terrestris (Araneae, Agelenidae)../. Arachnol., 14, 219-226. 

Trabalon, M. and Assi-Bessekon, D. (2008). Effects of web chemical signatures on intraspecific recognition in a subsocial spider, Coelotes terrestris (Araneae). Anim. Behav., 76,1571-1578. 

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