Nipisa Huber

Huber, Bernhard A., Eberle, Jonas & Dimitrov, Dimitar, 2018, The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae), ZooKeys 789, pp. 51-101 : 82

Nipisa Huber gen. n.

Calapnita phyllicola group: Deeleman-Reinhold 1986b: 212. Huber 2011a: 43. Huber 2017: 7.

Type species.

Calapnita phyllicola Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986.

Etymology.

The name is derived from the Malay word nipis (thin), and refers to the long and thin abdomen. Gender feminine.

Diagnosis

(adapted from Huber 2017). Leaf-dwelling, pale whitish, long-legged pholcids with six eyes and long cylindrical abdomen ( Huber 2017: figs 3-19). Distinguished from Calapnita by (1) tibia 2/ tibia 4 length>1.05 (vs. <0.95 in Calapnita ); (2) ALS with eight spigots each (vs. two in Calapnita ) ( Huber 2017: figs 31, 41, 78); (3) proximal lateral processes on male chelicerae in ‘usual’ proximal position (vs. distal in Calapnita ) ( Huber 2017: figs 23, 35); (4) simple apophysis on male palpal trochanter (vs. hooked and sclerotized in Calapnita ) ( Huber 2017: figs 21, 34); (5) male palpal femur barely modified (vs. with series of three ventral sclerotized processes in Calapnita ) ( Huber 2017: figs 21, 34); (6) epigynum roughly rectangular or trapezoidal with folded cuticle and posterior ‘knob’ (vs. triangular with anterior ‘knob’ in Calapnita ) ( Huber 2017: figs 24, 32, 36, 43). For characters distinguishing Nipisa from similar species in other genera see Diagnosis of Calapnita in Huber (2017).

Distribution.

Southeast Asia ( Huber 2017: figs 281 and 282).

Composition.

Ten species, all newly transferred from Calapnita : N. anai (Huber, 2017); N. bankirai (Huber, 2017); N. bidayuh (Huber, 2017); N. deelemanae (Huber, 2011); N. kubah (Huber, 2017); N. lehi (Huber, 2017); N. phasmoides (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986); N. phyllicola (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986); N. semengoh (Huber, 2017); N. subphyllicola (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986).