Nesticella brevipes (Yaginuma, 1970)

Lin, Yucheng, Ballarin, Francesco & Li, Shuqiang, 2016, A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species, ZooKeys 627, pp. 1-168 : 16-17

Taxon classification Animalia Araneae Nesticidae

Nesticella brevipes (Yaginuma, 1970)

Nesticus brevipes Yaginuma, 1970: 386 figs 1-2, 9-10 (♂♀).

Howaia brevipes : Lehtinen and Saaristo 1980: 54 (transfer from Nesticus ).

Nesticella brevipes : Song et al. 1999: 85, fig. 37G (♂).

Nesticella brevipes : Kamura and Irie 2009: 353, figs 103-107 (♂♀).

Howaia brevipes : Marusik and Kovblyuk 2011: 199, figs 25.1-2, 4-5 (♂♀). See the World Spider Catalog (2016) for the full list of references.

Diagnosis.

Males of Nesticella brevipes are distinguished from those of all the other species belonging to the brevipes -group by the well-developed and protruding dorsal apophysis (missing or only slightly protruding in the other species) and by the single, thin and sharp distal process of the paracymbium (usually bifurcated or, if single, thinner or blunt in the other species of the brevipes -group) (see Yaginuma 1970: 386 figs 1-2 and Kamura and Irie 2009: 353, figs 103-105). Females are recognized by the squared but usually well protruding scape and by the short and straight V-shaped copulatory ducts lacking undulations as in the other members of the group (see Kamura and Irie 2009: 353, figs 106-107).

Description.

See Yaginuma (1970).

Habitat.

Forest leaf litter, cave.

Distribution.

China (Zhejiang), Japan, Korea, Russia (Sakhalin, South Kuril Islands).