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Foraging and Trophic Ecology |
 | | One widely-foraging species, Nucras tessellata, specializes on scorpions (by day, these large arachnids are non-mobile and exceedingly patchily-distributed prey items). |
| | Nucras forages widely to capture these large arachnids by day in their diurnal retreats, whereas the nocturnal Pygopus sits and waits for scorpions at night above ground during the latter's normal period of activity. |
| | Biologically significant variation between species in utilization of certain relatively minor food categories is evident: for example, in the diets of climbing lizard species, hemiptera-homoptera and mantids-phasmids as well as various flying insects (wasps, Diptera, and Lepidoptera) tend to be better represented than they are among terrestrial species. |
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