Taxon details

Family: Liphistiidae / Genus: Heptathela

Heptathela higoensis Haupt, 1983

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-11-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000008]
  • Distribution: Japan
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA; m (Xu et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan; f of Heptathela nishikawai (Xu et al., 2019b)
  • Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan; f of Heptathela yaginumai (Xu et al., 2019b)
Taxonomic references
Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 1983: 283, f. 12a, 13a (Dmf).
Heptathela higoensis Ono, 1998: 16, f. 5-10 (mf, elevated from subspecies).
Heptathela nishikawai Ono, 1998: 19, f. 17-18 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000018].
Heptathela yaginumai Ono, 1998: 20, f. 19-20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000027].
Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 2003: 69, f. 43G (f).
Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 2003: 69, f. 50C-D, 52O, 54I-L, 62K (mf).
Heptathela higoensis Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 60-65 (mf).
Heptathela nishikawai Ono, 2009a: 83, f. 81-84 (f, Dm).
Heptathela yaginumai Ono, 2009a: 81, f. 66-67 (f).
Heptathela higoensis Xu et al., 2015a: 133, f. 15-19 (m).
Heptathela higoensis Xu et al., 2019b: 9, f. 2E, 4A-K, 5A-D (mf, S of Heptathela nishikawai and H. yaginumai).
References

Haupt, J. (1983). Vergleichende Morphologie der Genitalorgane und Phylogenie der liphistiomorphen Webspinnen (Araneae: Mesothelae). I. Revision der bisher bekannten Arten. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21(4): 275-293. doi:10.1111/j.1439-0469.1983.tb00296.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Haupt, J. (2003). The Mesothelae -- a monograph of an exceptional group of spiders (Aaneae: Mesothelae): (Morphology, behaviour, ecology, taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny). Zoologica 154: 1-102. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (1998). Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo 30: 13-27. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (2009a). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. doi:10.3897/zookeys.488.8726 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Ono, H., Kuntner, M., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2019b). A taxonomic monograph of the liphistiid spider genus Heptathela, endemic to Japanese islands. ZooKeys 888: 1-50. doi:10.3897/zookeys.888.34494 download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Edit history
Date Type Reference Detail
2019-11-14 New taxonomic reference entry Xu et al., 2019b n/a
2019-11-14 Species synonymy Xu et al., 2019b Heptathela yaginumai synonymized with Heptathela higoensis
2019-11-14 Species synonymy Xu et al., 2019b Heptathela nishikawai synonymized with Heptathela higoensis
2015-05-04 New taxonomic reference entry Xu et al., 2015a n/a