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The links to articles posted here are very interesting. I don't know if they have been posted before, but I was not able to find them with the search function (if they have been posted before, please delete this thread).
The first article (Cooke et. al., 1972) is pretty old, so almost all taxonomic info is already obsolete. With some research you can find the current genera which possess different types of urticating hairs. There are also some mistakes in other article (Incorporation of Urticating Hairs Into Silk).
There are six types of urticating hairs described nowadays:
-Urticating hairs of types I, III, IV and VI occur in members of subfamily Theraphosinae.
-Urticating hairs of types II and V occur in members of subfamily Aviculariinae (the later only in Ephebopus genus).
I hope you enjoy this thread and learn a lot from it, as I did.
These are the links:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspac...05/1/N2498.pdf
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...A_v26_p120.pdf
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...A_v18_p143.pdf
Sorry about next one (is not already available)
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...-37-03-292.pdf
I've got the article, but I won't attach it here, because I don't want any copyright trouble. It will probably be available later on this year or so. But this is the link to the abstract http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1636/sh08-106.1
P.S. Sorry for my english; any mistake in spelling or grammar, please let me know so I can correct it. If anyone have got more articles, of course they are welcome.
Alonso Tolentino.
The first article (Cooke et. al., 1972) is pretty old, so almost all taxonomic info is already obsolete. With some research you can find the current genera which possess different types of urticating hairs. There are also some mistakes in other article (Incorporation of Urticating Hairs Into Silk).
There are six types of urticating hairs described nowadays:
-Urticating hairs of types I, III, IV and VI occur in members of subfamily Theraphosinae.
-Urticating hairs of types II and V occur in members of subfamily Aviculariinae (the later only in Ephebopus genus).
I hope you enjoy this thread and learn a lot from it, as I did.
These are the links:
http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspac...05/1/N2498.pdf
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...A_v26_p120.pdf
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...A_v18_p143.pdf
Sorry about next one (is not already available)
http://www.americanarachnology.org/J...-37-03-292.pdf
I've got the article, but I won't attach it here, because I don't want any copyright trouble. It will probably be available later on this year or so. But this is the link to the abstract http://www.bioone.org/doi/abs/10.1636/sh08-106.1
P.S. Sorry for my english; any mistake in spelling or grammar, please let me know so I can correct it. If anyone have got more articles, of course they are welcome.
Alonso Tolentino.
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