Nesticella
| Nesticella | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Nesticidae |
| Genus: | Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 |
| Species | |
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See text | |
| Diversity | |
| 70 species | |
Nesticella is a genus of spiders of the family Nesticidae.[1] Most of its species are found in Asia—from Russia to Japan, down to Indonesia and several other islands, including New Guinea—though some species from Africa and South-America are also known. It includes a blind spider, Nesticella marapu.
Species
As of October 2025, this genus includes seventy species:[2]
- Nesticella aelleni (Brignoli, 1972) – Sri Lanka
- Nesticella africana (Hubert, 1970) – DR Congo
- Nesticella arcuata Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella baiseensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella baobab Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Madagascar
- Nesticella beccus Grall & Jäger, 2016 – China, Laos, Thailand
- Nesticella benoiti (Hubert, 1970) – Zimbabwe
- Nesticella brevipes (Yaginuma, 1970) – Japan, Russia, (Far East), China? Korea?
- Nesticella buicongchieni (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Vietnam
- Nesticella caeca Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella chillagoensis Wunderlich, 1995 – Australia (Queensland)
- Nesticella chongqing Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella connectens Wunderlich, 1995 – Malaysia, Thailand
- Nesticella dazhuangensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella ducke Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil
- Nesticella falcata Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella foelixi Grall & Jäger, 2016 – Laos
- Nesticella ganlong Wang, Zheng & Zhang, 2022 – China
- Nesticella gazuida Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella gongshanensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella gracilenta Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella griswoldi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Madagascar
- Nesticella hongheensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella insulana Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
- Nesticella inthanoni (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Myanmar, Thailand
- Nesticella jingpo Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella kaohsiungensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella kerzhneri (Marusik, 1987) – Russia (Far East), Korea
- Nesticella laotica Grall & Jäger, 2016 – Laos
- Nesticella lisu Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella liuzhaiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella machadoi (Hubert, 1971) – Angola
- Nesticella marapu Benjamin, 2004 – Indonesia
- Nesticella michaliki Grall & Jäger, 2016 – Myanmar
- Nesticella murici Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil
- Nesticella nandanensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella nepalensis (Hubert, 1973) – India, Nepal, China (type species)
- Nesticella occulta Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
- Nesticella odonta (Chen, 1984) – China
- Nesticella okinawaensis (Yaginuma, 1979) – Japan
- Nesticella phami Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Vietnam
- Nesticella potala Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella proszynskii (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Indonesia (Java)
- Nesticella qiaoqiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella qiongensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella quelpartensis (Paik & Namkung, 1969) – Korea
- Nesticella renata (Bourne, 1980) – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
- Nesticella robinsoni Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
- Nesticella robusta Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella sanchaheensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella sechellana (Simon, 1898) – Seychelles
- Nesticella semicircularis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella shanlinensis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella silvicola Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023 – Japan (Ryukyu Is.)
- Nesticella sogi Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
- Nesticella songi Chen & Zhu, 2004 – China
- Nesticella sulawesi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Indonesia (Sulawesi)
- Nesticella sumatrana Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
- Nesticella taurama Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea
- Nesticella terrestris (Yaginuma, 1970) – Russia (Sakhalin), Japan, Korea?
- Nesticella tibetana Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella utuensis (Bourne, 1980) – Papua New Guinea (New Ireland)
- Nesticella vanlang Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Vietnam
- Nesticella verticalis Liu & Li, 2013 – China
- Nesticella wuxi Wang, Zheng & Zhang, 2022 – China
- Nesticella xiongmao Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella xixia Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella yao Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – China
- Nesticella yui Wunderlich & Song, 1995 – China, Laos
- Nesticella zhiyuani Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 – Indonesia (Sumatra)
References
- ^ Liu, Jie; Li, Shuqiang (2013). "New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 501–547. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1. PMID 24698836. S2CID 33788520.
- ^ "Gen. Nesticella Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-17.