A wolf spider cosidae is feeding on a June Bug Phyllophaga and a Dragonf Anisoptera, at the Nakum archeological site, in the jungles of Petén, Guatemala. Wolf spiders are members of the fami cosidae. They are robust and agile hunters with excellent eyesight. They live most in solitude and hunt alone, and do not spin webs. Some are opportunistic hunters pouncing upon prey as they find it or even chasing it over short distances. Some wait for passing prey in or near the mouth of a burrow. Wolf spiders resemble nursery web spiders fami Pisauridae, but wolf spiders carry their egg sacs by attaching them to their spinnerets, while the others carry their egg sacs with their chelicerae and pedipalps. Two of the wolf spider`s eight eyes are large and prominent, which distinguishes them from the nursery web spiders whose eyes are all of rough equal size. Phyllophaga is a very large genus more than 900 species of New World scarab beetles in the subfami Melolonthinae. Common names for this genus and many other related genera in the subfami are May beetles, June bugs, and June beetles and are blackish or reddish-brown in color, without prominent markings, and often rather hairy ventral. These beetles are nocturnal, coming to lights in great numbers. A dragonf is an insect belonging to the order Odonata. Many dragonflies have brilliant iridescent or metallic colours produced by structural coloration, making them conspicuous in flight.
|
