Nesticella inthanoni ( Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 )

Ballarin, Francesco, Koponen, Seppo & Blick, Theo, 2024, Nesticella inthanoni (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) is the correct name for the spider Nesticella mollicula (Thorell, 1898) (Araneae, Nesticidae), Zootaxa 5405 (3), pp. 447-450 : 449

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.5405.3.8

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10603612

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Nesticella inthanoni ( Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 )
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Nesticella inthanoni ( Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) View in CoL

Figs. 1–7 View FIGURES 1–7

Erigone mollicula Thorell, 1898: p. 318 (description ♂ ♀).

E. mollicula Roewer, 1955: p. 1499 (nomen dubium).

Howaia inthanoni Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980: p. 55 , f. 13 (description ♀).

Nesticella mollicula Tanasevitch, 2010: p. 107 View in CoL (transferred from Erigone View in CoL , revalidated).

N. mollicula Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016: p. 49 View in CoL View Cited Treatment .

Material examined. THAILAND: 1♀ (holotype of Howaia inthanoni ), Lampang Province, Doi Inthanon National Park, (~ 18°35’N, 98°29’E), cloud forest at 2000 m, in pitfall traps, 15. Nov.–27. Dec. 1976, P.T. Lehtinen & R. Laine leg. ( ZMUT: AA 8.500 ); GoogleMaps MYANMAR: 1♀ (lectotype of Nesticella mollicula = Erigone mollicula ) Karen hills (~ 18°49’N, 97°2’E), (original label: Burma, Mt. Carin , Asciuii Chebà , Fig. 4 View FIGURES 1–7 ), 1886-1887 (month and day unknown), L. Fea leg. ( NHMG). GoogleMaps

Diagnosis. Females of Nesticella inthanoni can be distinguished from females of other congeners of the brevipes - group by the following combination of characters: scapus short and wide (vs. usually longer and/or narrower in other congeners, e.g. in N. brevipes (Yaginuma, 1970) , N. nandanensi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 , or N. qiaoqiensis Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 ), copulatory ducts comma-like, long and curved, (vs. usually straighter or with a different shape in other congeners, e.g. in N. terrestris (Yaginuma, 1970) , N. songi Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 , or N. odonta Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 ); spermathecae approximately as wide as the copulatory ducts (vs. wider than copulatory ducts in some other congeners, e.g. in N. jingpo Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 ) (see Figs. 3, 5, 7 View FIGURES 1–7 vs. figs. 18E, 23F, 25F, 26F, 34F in Lin et al. 2016 and figs. 5E e 6E in Ballarin & Eguchi 2023). Diagnosis of the male is unavailable due to a lack of information on its diagnostic morphological characters, see also the remarks.

Description. See Thorell (1898) and Lehtinen and Saaritsto (1980: 55) for a complete description. Epigyne as in Figs. 3, 5, 7 View FIGURES 1–7 . Habitus as in Figs. 1, 2, 6 View FIGURES 1–7 . Scapus short and wide, laterally elongated, ~ 4–5 times wider than long, ending with slightly curved posterior margin. Copulatory opening at the inner-lateral sides of scapus. Internal ducts visible through transparent tegument, long and curved, comma-like, headed laterally. Spermathecae small and rounded, ~ as wide as copulatory ducts, separated from each other by ~ 2.5 their diameter.

Remarks. Thorell (1898) described the new species based on three individuals, one male and two females. No drawings were provided by the author. The two original female syntypes are preserved in the Natural History Museum of Genoa, Italy, one designed as lectotype by Tanasevitch (2010) ( Figs. 1–4 View FIGURES 1–7 ). The male syntype is absent in the collections and it is probably lost (Maria Tavano, in litteris). Nesticella inthanoni was described by Lehtinen and Saaristo (1980) based on a single female currently preserved in the Zoological Museum of the University of Turku, Finland ( Figs. 5–7 View FIGURES 1–7 ). At present, no known individuals or illustrations of the male of N. inthanoni exist. The original description of the male by Thorell (1898, in Latin) does not allow a proper comparison with other congeners.

Distribution. Known only from 2 localities: the Karen Hills in Myanmar and the Doi Inthanon National Park in Thailand.

ZMUT

University of Tokyo, Department of Zoology

NHMG

Goteborgs Naturhistoriska Museet

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Nesticidae

Genus

Nesticella

Loc

Nesticella inthanoni ( Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 )

Ballarin, Francesco, Koponen, Seppo & Blick, Theo 2024
2024
Loc

Nesticella mollicula

Tanasevitch, A. 2010: 107
2010
Loc

Howaia inthanoni

Lehtinen, P. T. & Saaristo, M. I. 1980: 55
1980
Loc

E. mollicula

Roewer, C. F. 1955: 1499
1955
Loc

Erigone mollicula

Thorell, T. 1898: 318
1898
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