{"title":"Do pholcid spiders balloon?","authors":"Bernhard A. Huber","doi":"10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.885","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In a review from 2005 on ballooning in spiders and other animals, Pholcidae are marked as a “family in which ballooning has been observed”. Here I review the evidence for this, and conclude that there is no reliable data showing that Pholcidae have a behaviour that evolved to function specifically for getting airborne. Ballooning may in fact be absent in a large clade of spiders including Pholcidae (i.e. Haplogynae, or Synspermiata). Other behaviours that share certain characteristics with ballooning and that may accidentally result in airborne specimens occur in Pholcidae: bridging and dropping on a line.","PeriodicalId":38197,"journal":{"name":"Arachnology","volume":" 37","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Arachnology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13156/arac.2023.19.6.885","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"Agricultural and Biological Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In a review from 2005 on ballooning in spiders and other animals, Pholcidae are marked as a “family in which ballooning has been observed”. Here I review the evidence for this, and conclude that there is no reliable data showing that Pholcidae have a behaviour that evolved to function specifically for getting airborne. Ballooning may in fact be absent in a large clade of spiders including Pholcidae (i.e. Haplogynae, or Synspermiata). Other behaviours that share certain characteristics with ballooning and that may accidentally result in airborne specimens occur in Pholcidae: bridging and dropping on a line.
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