Howaia mogera

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 mogera

Name

Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972)

Type locality: Tamagawa, Tokyo, Japan.

Holotype: NSMT. male ♂. 03.XI.1969. legit H. Kobayashi.

Synonymy

• Nesticus mogera Yaginuma, 1972: 621 (original combination)
• Howaia mogera (Yaginuma}: Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980: 53
• Nesticella mogera (Yaginuma): Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 86
• Howaia mogera (Yaginuma): Sherwood et al., 2023b: 399,
• Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977
  • Type locality: SAINTE-Hèlène Est: Basse Fisher's Valley, alt. 1000 ft.
    • MRAC. female ♀. MRAC 129084
• Howaia helenensis (Hubert): Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980: 53

References

Primary references

• Yaginuma, T. 1972c. Revision of the short-legged nesticid spiders of Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 15(4): 619-622. Reference page. 

Additional references

• Hubert, M. 1977. Fam. Nesticidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 153-156. Reference page. 
• 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.