Heptathela kimurai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mesothelae
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: Mesothelae

Familia: Liphistiidae
Genus: Heptathela
Species: Heptathela kimurai

Name

Heptathela kimurai (Kishida, 1920)

Type locality: Shiroyama, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan

Holotype ♀: Lost in TI (X-1920, A. Kimura leg.)

Neotype ♂: In ZSZMH (from the type locality, 21-III-1982, adult in VIII-1982, J. Haupt leg., but the neotype may be lost according to Dunlop et al. 2014)

Synonyms

Liphistius kimurai Kishida, 1920 (original combination)
Heptathela kimurai (Kishida): Kishida, 1923

References

Kishida, K. 1920. [Occurrence of a liphistiid spider in Japan]. Zoological Magazine Tokyo 32: 360–363. (In Japanese) [362 f. 1]
Ono, H. 1998. Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 30: 13–27. [14, f. 1-4] PDF
Schwendinger, P.J & Ono, H. 2011. On two Heptathela species from southern Vietnam, with a discussion of copulatory organs and systematics of the Liphistiidae (Araneae: Mesothelae). Revue suisse de zoologie 118(4): 599–637. BHL Reference page. [see p. 614]

Vernacular names

English: Kimura-gumo
日本語: キムラグモ
русский: Паук погребной японский

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