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.

Nesticella
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Arachnida
Order:
Araneae
Suborder:
Araneomorphae
Family:
Nesticidae
Genus:
Nesticella

Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980
Species

See text.

Diversity
72 species

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
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References
  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.
  1. 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.
  2. "Nesticella species list | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. "Genus Nesticella details | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
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