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.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Nesticidae |
| Genus: | Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 |
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| Diversity | |
| 72 species | |
Species
editNesticella 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
edit- 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. S2CID 33788520.
- ^ "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.