The diet of the dull-mantled antbird is composed of insects and other arthropods; recorded prey items are spiders ( Araneae ), cockroaches ( Blattaria ), beetles ( Coleoptera ), crickets ( Gryllidae ), woodlice ( Oniscidea ) and indeterminate insect larvae.
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In what is seen as the likeliest ancestral arrangement of the eyes of the Araneae, there are two roughly parallel, horizontal, symmetrical, transverse rows of eyes, each containing two symmetrically placed pairs, respectively called : anterior and posterior lateral eyes ( ALE ) and ( PLE ); and anterior and posterior median eyes ( AME ) and ( PME ).
