Nesticus

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Classis: Arachnida
Ordo: Araneae
Subordo: Opisthothelae
Infraordo: Araneomorphae
Taxon: Neocribellatae
Series: Entelegynae
Superfamilia: Araneoidea

Familia: Nesticidae
Genus: Nesticus
Species: N. abukumanus – N. afghanus – N. akamai – N. akiensis – N. akiyoshiensis – N. ambiguus – N. anagamianus – N. antillanus – N. archeri – N. arenstorffi – N. arganoi – N. asuwanus – N. bacchus – N. baeticus – N. balacescui – N. barri – N. barrowsi – N. beroni – N. beshkovi – N. binfordae – N. bishopi – N. bondi – N. brasiliensis – N. breviscapus – N. brignolii – N. brimleyi – N. bungonus – N. calilegua – N. campus – N. canei – N. carolinensis – N. carpaticus – N. carteri – N. caverna – N. cellulanus – N. cernensis – N. cherokeensis – N. chikunii – N. citrinus – N. concolor – N. constantinescui – N. cooperi – N. coreanus – N. cressleri – N. crosbyi – N. delfini – N. dellingeri – N. diaconui – N. dilutus – N. dimensis – N. dykemanae – N. echigonus – N. eremita – N. fagei – N. flavidus – N. furenensis – N. furtivus – N. georgia – N. gertschi – N. globosus – N. gondai – N. gujoensis – N. henderickxi – N. higoensis – N. hoffmanni – N. holsingeri – N. idriacus – N. inconcinnus – N. ionescui – N. iriei – N. iwatensis – N. jamesoni – N. jemisinae – N. jonesi – N. kaiensis – N. karyuensis – N. kataokai – N. kosodensis – N. kunisakiensis – N. kuriko – N. kyongkeomsanensis – N. latiscapus – N. libo – N. lindbergi – N. longiscapus – N. lowderi – N. lula – N. luquei – N. lusitanicus – N. maculatus – N. masudai – N. mikawanus – N. mimus – N. mogera – N. monticola – N. morisii – N. murgis – N. nahuanus – N. nasicus – N. navicellatus – N. nishikawai – N. noroensis – N. obcaecatus – N. orghidani – N. paynei – N. pecki – N. plesai – N. potreiro – N. potterius – N. rainesi – N. rakanus – N. ramirezi – N. reclusus – N. reddelli – N. roanensis – N. salta – N. sbordonii – N. secretus – N. sedatus – N. sheari – N. shinkaii – N. shureiensis – N. silvanus – N. silvestrii – N. sodanus – N. sonei – N. speluncarum – N. stupkai – N. stygius – N. suzuka – N. taim – N. takachiho – N. tarumii – N. templetoni – N. tennesseensis – N. tosa – N. uenoi – N. unicolor – N. valentinei – N. vazquezae – N. wiehlei – N. yaginumai – N. yamagatensis – N. yamato – N. yesoensis – N. zenjoensis
Name

Nesticus Thorell, 1869

Type species: Nesticus cellulanus Clerck, 1757
Synonyms

Ivesia (Petrunkevitch) Petrunkevitch, 1925
Tuganobia Chamberlin, 1933

References

Thorell, T. 1869. On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis (3)7: 1–108. BHL Reference page.
Estol, N. & Rodrigues, E.N.L. 2017. A new species and a new record of the spider genus Nesticus (Araneae, Nesticidae) from southern Brazil. Zootaxa 4231(4): 564–566. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4231.4.4. Reference page.

Additional references

Hedin, M. & Milne, M.A. 2023. New species in old mountains: integrative taxonomy reveals ten new species and extensive short-range endemism in Nesticus spiders (Araneae, Nesticidae) from the southern Appalachian Mountains. Zookeys 1145ː 1–130. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1145.96724 Open access Reference page.
Liu, J. & Li, S.Q. 2013a. New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China. Zootaxa 3613(6): 501–547. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1 Reference page.
López-Pancorbo, A.; Ribera, C. 2011: Nesticus baeticus sp. n., a new troglobitic spider species from south-west Europe (Araneae, Nesticidae). ZooKeys, 89: 1–13. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.89.921
López-Pancorbo, A., Kunt, K.B., Blagoev, G., Deltshev, C. & Ribera, C. 2013. Nesticus dimensis new species, a new troglobitic spider from Turkey (Araneae, Nesticidae), with comments on its phylogenetic relationships. Zootaxa 3721(2): 183–192. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3721.2.5 Reference page.
Marusik, Yu.M., Omelko, M.M. & Koponen, S. 2015. Redescription of “Nesticus” citrinus (Taczanowski, 1874) (Araneae, Araneoidea) from French Guyana. Zookeys 537: 97–101. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.537.6818 Full article. Reference page.
Yaginuma, T. 1979. A study of the Japanese species of nesticid spiders. Faculty of Letters Revue, Otemon Gakuin University 13: 255–287. Reference page.
Zigler, K.S. & Milne, M.A. 2022. Two new Nesticus Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Nesticidae) from caves in northwest Georgia, USA. Journal of Arachnology 50(3): 292-300. DOI: 10.1636/JoA-S-21-035. Paywall. Reference page.

Links

Platnick, N. I. 2008. The World Spider Catalog, version 9.0. American Museum of Natural History. [1]

Vernacular names
English: Nesticus

Nesticus is a genus of American and Eurasian scaffold web spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869.[3]
Species

As of March 2022 it contains the following species:[4]

Nesticus abukumanus Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus acrituberculum Kim, Yoo, Lee, Lee, Choi & Lim, 2014 — Korea
Nesticus afghanus Roewer, 1962 — Afghanistan
Nesticus akamai Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus akiensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus akiyoshiensis (Uyemura, 1941) — Japan
Nesticus akiyoshiensis ofuku Yaginuma, 1977 — Japan
Nesticus ambiguus Denis, 1950 — Tanzania
Nesticus anagamianus Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus antillanus Bryant, 1940 — Cuba
Nesticus archeri Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus arganoi Brignoli, 1972 — Mexico
Nesticus asuwanus Nishikawa, 1986 — Japan
Nesticus bacchus Estol & Rodrigues, 2017 — Brazil
Nesticus balacescui Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus barri Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus barrowsi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus bishopi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus brasiliensis Brignoli, 1979 — Brazil
Nesticus breviscapus Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus brignolii Ott & Lise, 2002 — Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina
Nesticus brimleyi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus bungonus Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus calilegua Ott & Lise, 2002 — Brazil, Argentina
Nesticus campus Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus carolinensis (Bishop, 1950) — USA
Nesticus carpaticus Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus carteri Emerton, 1875 — USA
Nesticus caverna Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus cellulanus (Clerck, 1757) — Holarctic
Nesticus cellulanus affinis Kulczynski, 1894 — Slovakia, Romania
Nesticus cernensis Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus chikunii Yaginuma, 1980 — Japan
Nesticus citrinus (Taczanowski, 1874) — Guyana
Nesticus concolor Roewer, 1962 — Afghanistan
Nesticus constantinescui Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus cooperi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus coreanus Paik & Namkung, 1969 — Korea
Nesticus crosbyi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus delfini (Simon, 1904) — Chile
Nesticus diaconui Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus dilutus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus echigonus Yaginuma, 1986 — Japan
Nesticus flavidus Paik, 1978 — Korea
Nesticus furenensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus furtivus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus gastropodus Kim & Ye, 2014 — Korea
Nesticus georgia Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus gertschi Coyle & McGarity, 1992 — USA
Nesticus gondai Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus gujoensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus higoensis Yaginuma, 1977 — Japan
Nesticus hoffmanni Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
Nesticus holsingeri Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus inconcinnus Simon, 1907 — São Tomé
Nesticus ionescui Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus iriei Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus ivone Faleiro & Santos, 2011 — Brazil
Nesticus iwatensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus jamesoni Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus jonesi Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus kaiensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus karyuensis Yaginuma, 1980 — Japan
Nesticus kataokai Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus kunisakiensis Irie, 1999 — Japan
Nesticus kuriko Yaginuma, 1972 — Japan
Nesticus kyongkeomsanensis Namkung, 2002 — Korea
Nesticus latiscapus Yaginuma, 1972 — Japan
Nesticus latiscapus kosodensis Yaginuma, 1972 — Japan
Nesticus lindbergi Roewer, 1962 — Afghanistan
Nesticus longiscapus Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus longiscapus awa Yaginuma, 1978 — Japan
Nesticus longiscapus draco Yaginuma, 1978 — Japan
Nesticus longiscapus kiuchii Yaginuma, 1978 — Japan
Nesticus maculatus Bryant, 1948 — Hispaniola
Nesticus masudai Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus mikawanus Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus mimus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus monticola Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus nahuanus Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
Nesticus nasicus Coyle & McGarity, 1992 — USA
Nesticus nishikawai Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus noroensis Mashibara, 1993 — Japan
Nesticus orghidani Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus paynei Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus pecki Hedin & Dellinger, 2005 — USA
Nesticus plesai Dumitrescu, 1980 — Romania
Nesticus potreiro Ott & Lise, 2002 — Brazil
Nesticus potterius (Chamberlin, 1933) — USA
Nesticus rainesi Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus rakanus Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus ramirezi Ott & Lise, 2002 — Argentina
Nesticus reclusus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus reddelli Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus salta Torres, Pardo, González-Reyes, Rodríguez Artigas & Corronca, 2016 — Argentina
Nesticus secretus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus sedatus Gertsch, 1984 — Mexico
Nesticus sheari Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus shinkaii Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus shureiensis Yaginuma, 1980 — Japan
Nesticus silvanus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus silvestrii Fage, 1929 — USA
Nesticus sodanus Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus sonei Yaginuma, 1981 — Japan
Nesticus stupkai Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus stygius Gertsch, 1984 — USA
Nesticus suzuka Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus taim Ott & Lise, 2002 — Brazil
Nesticus takachiho Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus tarumii Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus tennesseensis (Petrunkevitch, 1925) — USA
Nesticus tosa Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus tosa iwaya Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus tosa niyodo Yaginuma, 1976 — Japan
Nesticus unicolor Simon, 1895 — Venezuela
Nesticus utatsuensis Tanikawa & Yawata, 2013 — Japan
Nesticus vazquezae Gertsch, 1971 — Mexico
Nesticus wiehlei Dumitrescu, 1979 — Romania
Nesticus yaginumai Irie, 1987 — Japan
Nesticus yamagatensis Yoshida, 1989 — Japan
Nesticus yamato Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus yeongchigulensis Kim, Ye & Kim, 2016 — Korea
Nesticus yesoensis Yaginuma, 1979 — Japan
Nesticus zenjoensis Yaginuma, 1978 — Japan