Gustatorial courtship, which is so far only known from two entelegyne families among spiders, is for the first time documented in a haplogyne spider, Hedypsilus culicinus Simon, 1893 (Pholcidae). The convergence to entelegynes is explained by (1) comparable mating position, and (2) body proportions.
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Bernhard A. Huber (1996) studied this question.