arachnophagic

From arachno- +‎ -phagic. Piecewise doublet of araneophagic.

arachnophagic (not comparable)

1. Spider-eating.

   Synonyms: arachnophagous, araneophagic, araneophagous

   • 1996 September, Paul James Yoward, “Rearing Methods”, in Spider Sperm Competition: The Conduit / Cul-De-Sac Hypothesis - A Route to Understanding or a Dead End?‎^[1], York, North Yorkshire: University of York, Department of Biology, →OCLC, archived from the original on 3 January 2026, chapter 2 (Sperm Precedence Measurements in Pholcus phalangioides (Fuesslin) (Araneae, Pholcidae)), page 67:

     Though ordinarily arachnophagic (Jackson & Brassington 1987; Jackson & Rowe 1987) a female P. phalangioides will feed her young, (Bonizzi 1869; pers. obs.) so the mother was maintained with her brood until a further cocoon was laid.

   • 2009 August 7, Kensuke Nakata, “To be or not to be conspicuous: the effects of prey availability and predator risk on spider’s web decoration building”, in Animal Behaviour, volume 78, number 5, Amsterdam: Elsevier, published November 2009, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 1256, column 1:

     In the alternative predator defence hypothesis, the signal receivers are the spiders’ predators such as wasps, parasitic flies, praying mantises, arachnophagic jumping spiders that have acute visual senses or birds (Wise 1993).

   • 2024 June 20, Yannan Ma, Sile Du, Dong Ren, Yunzhi Yao, “A new species of Nabidae (Hemiptera, Heteroptera, Cimicomorpha) from Dominican amber”, in Historical Biology […], volume 37, number 7, Abingdon, Oxfordshire: Taylor & Francis, published 2025, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC, pages 1630–1631:

     At present, they are mainly divided into two types: kleptoparasitic (Plokiophilidae, the genus Ranzovius Distant, 1893 of Miridae, Arachnocoris) and arachnophagic (Emesinae) (Soley et al. 2011; Mercado and Santiago-Blay 2015; Schuh and Weirauch 2020).