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]
| Nipisa | |
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Scientific classification 
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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 (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986)
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| Species | |
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10, see text | |
Species edit
As of April 2022[update] 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 edit
References edit
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
Further reading edit
- Huber, B. A. (2017). "Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Zootaxa. 4219 (1): 1–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1.
- Huber, B. A. (2011). "Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae)". Bonner Zoologische Monographien. 58: 1–509.
- Huber, B. A. (2000). "New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 254: 1–348. doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2. S2CID 83685875.
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