Howaia apiculata

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Araneoidea

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: Howaia
Species: Howaia apiculata

Name

Howaia apiculata (Liu & Li, 2013)

Type locality: CHINA: Henan Province, Zhengzhou City, Gongyi County, Xinzhong Town, Fuxi Mt., Xuehua Cave (34º41.4 ́N, 113º12.85 ́E, Altitude: 214 m.

Holotype: IZCAS. male ♂. 27.IV.2007. legit Yucheng Lin & Jie Liu.

Synonymy

• Nesticella apiculata Liu & Li, 2013: 502 (original combination)
• Howaia apiculata (Liu & Li): Sherwood et al., 2023: 399

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Synonymy

• Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Henrard, A. & Fowler, L. 2023. The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306(3): 397–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.8. . Reference page.