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Nipisa

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Nipisa
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Pholcidae
Genus: Nipisa
Huber, 2018[1]
Type species
Calapnita phyllicola
Species

10, see text

Nipisa is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders erected in 2018 after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae. It consists of ten Calapnita species, previously the phyllicola group of Pholcidae, now elevated to genus rank.[2] They are pale whitish in color, with a cylindrical abdomen and relatively long legs.[3] The name is derived from the Malay "nipis", meaning "thin", in reference to the long, thin abdomen.[2]

Calapnita‑Panjange clade

Species

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As of April 2022 it contains ten species:[1]

  • N. anai (Huber, 2017) – Thailand, Malaysia (mainland), Singapore, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java?)
  • N. bankirai (Huber, 2017) – Malaysia, Indonesia (Borneo)
  • N. bidayuh (Huber, 2017) – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • N. deelemanae (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • N. kubah (Huber, 2017) – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • N. lehi (Huber, 2017) – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • N. phasmoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986) – Indonesia (Java, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • N. phyllicola (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986) (type) – Thailand, Malaysia (mainland, Borneo), Indonesia (Sumatra, Borneo), Singapore
  • N. semengoh (Huber, 2011) – Malaysia (Borneo)
  • N. subphyllicola (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986) – Philippines

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "Gen. Nipisa Huber, 2018". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2022. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2022-04-14.
  2. ^ a b Huber, B. A.; Eberle, J.; Dimitrov, D. (2018). "The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae)". ZooKeys (789): 51–101. doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781. PMC 6193417. PMID 30344435.
  3. ^ Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1986). "Studies on tropical Pholcidae II: Redescription of Micromerys gracilis Bradley and Calapnita vermiformis Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae) and description of some related new species". Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 22: 205–224.

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