Howaia rongtangensis

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 rongtangensis

Name

Howaia rongtangensis (Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016)

Type locality: China, Jiangxi Province, Fuliang County, Shouan Town, Zhuxian Cave, 29.21353°N, 117.30285°E, 191 m.

Holotype: IZCAS. male ♂. 22.V.2013. legit Y. Luo & J. Liu.

Synonymy

• Nesticella rongtangensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016: 85 (original combination)
• Howaia rongtangensis (Lin, Ballarin & Li): Sherwood et al., 2023: 399

References

Primary references

• Lin, Y-C., Ballarin, F. & Li, S-Q. 2016. A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species. ZooKeys 627: 1–168. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.627.8629. Reference page. 

Additional references

• 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.