Taxon details


Heptathela kimurai (Kishida, 1920)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2019-11-14
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000015]
  • Distribution: Japan
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Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Science College Museum of the Tokyo Imperial University, Tokyo, Japan; f (lost) (Xu et al., 2019b)
  • Neotype: Zoologisches Museum Hamburg (ZMH), Hamburg, Germany (data base search of type material, 11.02.2019); mf (A0003076) and paratype - lost per Xu et al., 2019b: 15 (Haupt, 1983)
Taxonomic references
Liphistius kimurai Kishida, 1920b: 362, f. 1 (Dmf).
Heptathela kimurai Kishida, 1923: 236, f. 1-7 (f).
Heptathela kimurai Bristowe, 1933a: 1030, f. 8g, 9b.
Heptathela kimurai Sawaguti & Ozi, 1937: 116, f. 1-5 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1954b: 15, pl. I (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1955b: 35, f. 2.1-3 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1960: 19, f. 12 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1971: 19, f. 12 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Gertsch & Platnick, 1979: 5, f. 13-14.
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1979c: 1, f. 1 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1980c: 44, f. 1 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Haupt, 1983: 283, f. 1b, 7a-b, 9a, 11a, 12c, 13b-c (mf).
Heptathela kimurai Yoshikura, 1983: 63, f. 1-7 (mf).
Heptathela kimurai Haupt, 1984: 163, f. 2a (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yaginuma, 1986a: 1, f. 1.1 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yoshikura, 1987: 148, f. 20.3A, 20.14, 35.2A (mf).
Heptathela kimurai Chikuni, 1989b: 18, f. 1 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Ono, 1998: 14, f. 1-4 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Yoo & Kim, 2002a: 27, f. 46 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Haupt, 2003: 69, f. 50A-B, 52M-N, 54A-H, 62L (mf).
Heptathela kimurai Ono, 2009a: 81, f. 4, 68-74 (mf).
Heptathela kimurai Schwendinger & Ono, 2011: 614, f. 46-47 (m).
Heptathela kimurai Xu et al., 2015a: 133, f. 20-21 (f).
Heptathela kimurai Xu et al., 2019b: 15, f. 1A-B, 2D, 7A-D (f; N.B.: m presumably unknown, but not all published and figured males are discussed).
References

Bristowe, W. S. (1933a). The liphistiid spiders. With an appendix on their internal anatomy by J. Millot. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 102(4, 1932): 1015-1057, pl. 1-6. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1932.tb01575.x download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chikuni, Y. (1989b). Pictorial encyclopedia of spiders in Japan. Kaisei-sha Publishing Co., Tokyo, 310 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. & Platnick, N. I. (1979). A revision of the spider family Mecicobothriidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). American Museum Novitates 2687: 1-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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. (1984). Comportement sexuel, morphologie génitale et phylogenèse des araignées liphistiomorphes. Revue Arachnologique 5: 161-168. 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

Kishida, K. (1920b). [no English title]. Zoological Magazine,Tokyo 32: 362. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kishida, K. (1923). Heptathela, a new genus of liphistiid spiders. Annotationes Zoologicae Japonenses 10: 235-242. 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

Sawaguti, Y. & Ozi, Y. (1937). On Heptathela kimurai (Kishida, 1920). Acta Arachnologica 2: 115-123. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Schwendinger, P. J. & Ono, H. (2011). On two Heptathela species from southern Vietnam, with a discussion of copulatory organs and systematics of the Liphistiidae (Araneae: Mesothelae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 118(4): 599-637. doi:10.5962/bhl.part.117818 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

Yaginuma, T. (1954b). Synopsis of Japanese spiders (1). Atypus 5: 13-24. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1955b). The development of araneology in Japan. Annual Report of the Otemon Gakuin University 1: 25-41. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1960). Spiders of Japan in colour. Hoikusha, Osaka, 186 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1971). Spiders of Japan in colour (enlarged and revised edition). Hoikusha, Osaka (for 1969), 197 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1979c). Heptathela nishihirai Haupt, 1979 from Okinawa. Atypus 75: 1-2. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1980c). A supplementary note on "Heptathela nishihirai" (Araneae: Heptathelidae). Atypus 76: 44-45. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1986a). Spiders of Japan in color (new ed.). Hoikusha Publishing Co., Osaka, 305 pp., 64 pls. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoo, J. C. & Kim, J. P. (2002a). Studies on basic pattern and evolution of male palpal organ (Arachnida: Araneae). Korean Arachnology 18: 13-31. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshikura, M. (1983). Sexual characters in a liphistiid spider, Heptathela kimurai (Araneae: Heptathelidae). Heptathela 2: 63-73. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yoshikura, M. (1987). The biology of spiders. Japan Scientific Societies Press, Tokyo, 613 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2019-11-14 New taxonomic reference entry Xu et al., 2019b n/a
2015-05-04 New taxonomic reference entry Xu et al., 2015a n/a