Cattleya alaorii Cattleya alaorii Cattleya alaorii, commonly known as the Laelia alaorii, is a species of orchid endemic to Brazil (Bahia). The species was named after Mr. Alaor Oliveira, former employee at the University of São Paulo at Piracicaba, who first collected this species in a field excursion in the late 1960s. It was discovered in the 1970s in an isolated mountain chain near Itabuna, Bahia state. It grows in the very wet Bahia coastal forests ecoregion of the Atlantic Forest biome ("Mata Atlantica Brasileira"). It is found in rainforests at about above sea level. The plants are epiphytes in tall trees
Portia labiata specimens. The following table shows the hunting performance of adult females. In addition to "P. labiata", the table shows for comparison the hunting performances of "P. africana", "P. schultzi" and three regional variants of "P. fimbriata". A female "P. labiata" often hangs a capture web from pliant stems and leaves of shrubs and lower branches of trees, rather than from rocks and tree trunks. Males of "Portia" do not build capture webs. A female "P. labiata" more often pursues small jumping spiders and web spiders than larger prey. While it more often catches small jumping spiders than larger ones, it