Nesticella

Life-forms

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: Nesticella
Species: N. aelleni – N. africana – N. apiculata – N. arcuata – N. baiseensis – N. baobab – N. beccus – N. benoiti – N. brevipes – N. buicongchieni – N. caeca – N. chillagoensis – N. chongqing – N. connectens – N. dazhuangensis – N. ducke – N. falcata – N. foelixi – N. fuliangensis – N. ganlong – N. gracilenta – N. gazuida – N. gongshanensis – N. griswoldi – N. helenensis – N. hongheensis – N. huomachongensis – N. inthanoni – N. jingpo – N. kaohsiungensis – N. kerzhneri – N. laotica – N. lisu – N. liuzhaiensis – N. machadoi – N. marapu – N. michaliki – N. mogera – N. mollicula – N. murici – N. nandanensis – N. nepalensis – N. odonta – N. okinawaensis – N. phami – N. potala – N. proszynskii – N. qiaoqiensis – N. qiongensis – N. quelpartensis – N. renata – N. robinsoni – N. robusta – N. rongtangensis – N. sanchaheensis – N. sechellana – N. semicircularis – N. shanlinensis – N. sogi – N. songi – N. sulawesi – N. sumatrana – N. taiwan – N. taurama – N. tibetana – N. utuensis – N. vanlang – N. verticalis – N. wanzaiensis – N. wuxi – N. xiongmao – N. xixia – N. yanbeiensis – N. yao – N. yintiaoling – N. yui – N. zhiyuani
Name

Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980

Type species: Nesticella nepalensis Hubert, 1973
Synonyms

Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980

References

Grall, E. & Jäger, P. 2016. Four new species of the spider genus Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 from Laos, Thailand and Myanmar and the first description of the male of Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 with a proposed new diagnostic character for the family Nesticidae Simon, 1894 (Arachnida, Araneae). Zootaxa 4085(2): 248–264. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4085.2.5.Reference page.
Lin, Y-C., Ballarin, F. & Li, S-Q. 2016. A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species. ZooKeys 627: 1–168. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.627.8629. 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.

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Wang, L.Y., Zheng, C.B. & Zhang, Z.S. 2022. Three new species of Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 from Chongqing (Araneae: Nesticidae). Acta Arachnologica Sinica 31(1): 11-16. DOI: 10.3969/j.issn.1005-9628.2022.01.002. Paywall. Reference page.

Links

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

Vernacular names
English: Nesticella

Nesticella is a genus of spiders of the family Nesticidae.[1] Most of its species are found in Asia—from Russia to Japan, down to Indonesia and several other islands, including New Guinea—though some species from Africa and South-America are also known. It includes a blind spider, Nesticella marapu.
Species

Nesticella comprises the following species:[2]

Nesticella aelleni (Brignoli, 1972) – Sri Lanka
Nesticella africana (Hubert, 1970) – Congo
Nesticella apiculata Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella arcuata Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella baiseensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella baobab Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella beccus Grall & Jäger, 2016
Nesticella benoiti (Hubert, 1970) – Zimbabwe
Nesticella brevipes (Yaginuma, 1970) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan
Nesticella buicongchieni (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Vietnam
Nesticella caeca Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella chillagoensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Queensland
Nesticella chongqing Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella connectens Wunderlich, 1995 – Malaysia
Nesticella dazhuangensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella ducke Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil
Nesticella falcata Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella foelixi Grall & Jäger, 2016
Nesticella fuliangensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella gazuida Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella gongshanensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella gracilenta Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella griswoldi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella helenensis (Hubert, 1977) – St. Helena
Nesticella hongheensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella huomachongensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella jingpo Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella kaohsiungensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella kerzhneri (Marusik, 1987) – Russia
Nesticella laotica Grall & Jäger, 2016
Nesticella lisu Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella liuzhaiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella machadoi (Hubert, 1971) – Angola
Nesticella marapu Benjamin, 2004 – Indonesia
Nesticella michaliki Grall & Jäger, 2016
Nesticella mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) – Azerbaijan, China, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Fiji; introduced to Germany
Nesticella mollicula (Thorell, 1898)
Nesticella murici Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil
Nesticella nandanensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella nepalensis (Hubert, 1973) – Nepal – type species.[3]
Nesticella odonta (Chen, 1984) – China
Nesticella okinawaensis (Yaginuma, 1979) – Japan
Nesticella phami Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella potala Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella proszynskii (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Java
Nesticella qiaoqiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella qiongensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella quelpartensis (Paik & Namkung, 1969) – Korea
Nesticella renata (Bourne, 1980) – New Ireland
Nesticella robinsoni Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
Nesticella robusta Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella rongtangensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella sanchaheensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella sechellana (Simon, 1898) – Seychelles
Nesticella semicircularis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella shanlinensis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella sogi Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
Nesticella songi Chen & Zhu, 2004 – China
Nesticella sulawesi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella sumatrana Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella taurama Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
Nesticella tibetana Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella utuensis (Bourne, 1980) – New Ireland
Nesticella vanlang Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella verticalis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
Nesticella wanzaiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella xiongmao Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella xixia Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella yanbeiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella yao Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016
Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 – China
Nesticella zhiyuani Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016

References

Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.

Liu, Jie; Li, Shuqiang (2013). "New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 501–547. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1. PMID 24698836.
"Nesticella species list | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
"Genus Nesticella details | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.