References

Arnqvist, G., Henriksson, S., Sexual cannibalism in the fishing spider and a model for the evolution of sexual cannibalism based on genetic constraints, Evolutionary Ecology, Volume 11, Issue 3, 1997-05-01, Pages 255-273, ISSN 0269-7653, 10.1023/A:1018412302621. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1023/A:1018412302621)

Barry, K.L., Holwell, G.I., Herberstein, M.E. Female praying mantids use sexual cannibalism as a foraging strategy to increase fecundity. Behavioral Ecology, 19 (2008), pp. 710–715

Birkhead, T R; Lee, K.E.; Young, P. (1988). "Sexual Cannibalism in the Praying Mantis Hierodula Membranacea". Behaviour 106. doi:10.1163/156853988X00115

Buskirk, R.E., Frohlich, C. and Ross, K.G. The American Naturalist , Vol. 123, No. 5 (May, 1984), pp. 612-625. (http://www.jstor.org/stable/2461241)

Campbell, N. A. (1996) Biology (4th edition), Chapter 50. Benjamin Cummings, New York ISBN 0-8053-1957-3

Elgar, M.A., Nash, D.R., Sexual cannibalism in the garden spider Araneus diadematus, Animal Behaviour, Volume 36, Issue 5, September–October 1988, Pages 1511-1517, ISSN 0003-3472, 10.1016/S0003-3472(88)80221-5.

Jensen D., Svenson G.J., Song H., Whiting M.F. (2009) Phylogeny and evolution of male genitalia within the praying mantis genus Tenodera (Mantodea : Mantidae). Invertebrate Systematics 23, 409–421. (http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/IS09004)

Lee, Qi Qi, et al. "Emasculation: gloves-off strategy enhances eunuch spider endurance." Biology Letters 8.5 (2012): 733-735.

Li D.,Oh J.,Kralj-Fišer S.,Kuntner M. 2012 Remote copulation: male adaptation to female cannibalism. Biol. Lett. 1, 1–3. doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.1202 (doi:10.1098/rsbl.2011.1202)

Persons MH, Uetz GW. 2005. Sexual cannibalism and mate choice decisions in wolf spiders: influences of male size and secondary sexual characters. Anim. Behav. 69:83–94

Polis, G . A . and R . D . Farley, 1979 . Behavior and ecology of mating in the cannibalistic scorpion ,
Paruroctonus mesaensis Stahnke (Seorpionida : Vaejovidae) . J . Arachnol . 7 :33-46 .

“scorpion."  Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Online Academic Edition. Encyclopædia Britannica Inc., 2012. Web. 24 Oct. 2012.

Tinbergen, Niko (1963) "On Aims and Methods in Ethology," Zeitschrift für Tierpsychologie, 20: 410–433.

Welke and Schneider, 2012. K.W. Welke, J.M. Schneider. Sexual cannibalism benefits offspring survival. Animal Behaviour, 83 (2012), pp. 201–207

Wilder SM, Rypstra AL, Elgar MA (2009) The importance of ecological and phylogenetic conditions for the occurrence and frequency of sexual cannibalism. Ann Rev Ecol Evol Syst 40:21–39