Taxon details


Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972)

  • Rank: Species (Genus type)
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2023-08-12
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006603]
  • Distribution: China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena, Europe, Azerbaijan, Pacific islands
Type deposit provide information
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; f (Ara.129084) of Nesticus helenensis (Sherwood et al., 2023b)
  • Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan; m (73) (Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023)
  • Paratype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; 5f 1jm (Ara.129084, 129171, 129183, 129205, 129425, 135896) of Nesticus helenensis (Sherwood et al., 2023b)
  • Paratype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan; 1f (74) (Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023)
  • Allotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium; m (Ara.133336) of Nesticus helenensis (Sherwood et al., 2023b)
Taxonomic references
Nesticus terrestris Yaginuma, 1970b: 390, f. 7 (m; misidentified per Yaginuma, 1972f: 621).
Nesticus mogera Yaginuma, 1972f: 621, f. 1 (Dmf).
Nesticus mogera Gertsch, 1973b: 168, f. 4-7 (mf).
Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977: 153, f. 67a-h (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006599].
Nesticus mogera Yaginuma, 1977a: 315, pl. 2, f. 17 (m).
Nesticus mogera Shimojana, 1977a: 353, f. 6 (m).
Nesticus mogera Yaginuma, 1979a: 275, pl. 6, f. 11-12 (mf).
Howaia helenensis Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980: 53 (T from Nesticus, probable S of H. mogera).
Howaia mogera Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980: 53, f. 7-9, 22-23, 29b (mf, T from Nesticus).
Nesticus mogera Gong & Zhu, 1982: 62, f. a-f (mf).
Nesticus mogera Hu, 1984: 175, f. 184.1-6 (mf).
Nesticus mogera Gertsch, 1984: 44, f. 185, 195-197 (mf).
Nesticus mogera Yaginuma, 1986a: 55, f. 29.8 (mf).
Nesticus mogera Chikuni, 1989b: 45, f. 2 (mf).
Nesticus mogera Chen & Zhang, 1991: 157, f. 155.1-5 (mf).
Nesticus brevipes Paik, 1996f: 72, f. 1-10 (f; misidentified per Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023: 231).
Nesticella mogera Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 86, f. 37B-C, H (mf).
Nesticella mogera Kim, Yoo & Lee, 1999: 183, f. 1-7 (mf).
Howaia mogera Marusik & Guseinov, 2003: 38, f. 17-21 (mf; genus not explicitly revalidated).
Nesticella mogera Kamura & Irie, 2009: 353, f. 108-110 (mf).
Nesticella mogera Kielhorn, 2009: 32, f. 2-3 (m).
Nesticella mogera Zhu & Zhang, 2011: 67, f. 34A-E (mf).
Nesticella mogera Bielak-Bielecki & Rozwałka, 2011: 137, f. 1a-c (f).
Nesticella mogera Yin et al., 2012: 235, f. 74a-d (mf).
Nesticella mogera Liu & Li, 2013a: 521, f. 17A-D, 18A-D (mf).
Nesticella mogera Pfliegler, 2014: 146, f. 1o, 2b, 3b (f).
Nesticella mogera Suzuki et al., 2018: 32, f. c (m).
Nesticella mogera Kim & Lee, 2018c: 27, f. 12A-C (mf).
Nesticella mogera Suzuki, 2019c: 83, f. 11c-d (mf).
Nesticella mogera Pantini, Bonelli & Bonacci, 2020: 29, f. 5 (m).
Nesticella mogera Hänggi et al., 2021: 68, f. 3a-c (f).
Howaia mogera Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023: 231, f. 1A-J, 4A-D, 15A (mf).
Howaia mogera Sherwood et al., 2023b: 399, f. 1-6 (mf, S of Nesticella helenensis).
References

Ballarin, F. & Eguchi, K. (2023). Integrative taxonomic revision of the genera Nesticella and Howaia in Japan with the description of five new species (Araneae, Nesticidae, Nesticellini). ZooKeys 1174: 219-272. doi:10.3897/zookeys.1174.101251 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Bielak-Bielecki, P & Rozwałka, R. (2011). Nesticella mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) (Araneae: Nesticidae) in Poland. Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego, Acta Biologica 676 18: 137-141. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Chen, Z. F. & Zhang, Z. H. (1991). Fauna of Zhejiang: Araneida. Zhejiang Science and Technology Publishing House, Hangzhou, 356 pp. 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. (1973b). The cavernicolous fauna of Hawaiian lava tubes, 3. Araneae (spiders). Pacific Insects 15: 163-180. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gertsch, W. J. (1984). The spider family Nesticidae (Araneae) in North America, Central America, and the West Indies. Bulletin of the Texas Memorial Museum 31: 1-91. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Gong, M. X. & Zhu, C. D. (1982). [Description of Nesticus mogera Yaginuma (Araneae: Nesticidae) from China]. Journal of the Bethune Medical University 8: 62. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hänggi, A., Bobbitt, I., Kranz-Baltensperger, Y., Bolzern, A. & Gilgado, J. D. (2021). Spiders (Araneae) from Swiss hothouses, with records of four species new for Switzerland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 67-74. doi:10.30963/aramit6207 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hu, J. L. (1984). The Chinese spiders collected from the fields and the forests. Tianjin Science and Technology Press, 482 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Hubert, M. (1977). Fam. Nesticidae. In: La faune terrestre de l'île de Sainte-Hélène IV. Annales, Musée Royal de l'Afrique Centrale, Sciences zoologiques (Zool.-Ser. 8°) 220: 153-156. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kamura, T. & Irie, T. (2009). Nesticidae. In: Ono, H. (ed.) The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, pp. 345-355. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kielhorn, K.-H. (2009). First records of Spermophora kerinci, Nesticella mogera and Pseudanapis aloha on the European mainland (Araneae: Pholcidae, Nesticidae, Anapidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 31-34. doi:10.5431/aramit3706 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kim, J. P., Yoo, Y. S. & Lee, Y. B. (1999). A newly recorded species of the genus Nesticella (Aranea, Nesticidae) in Korea. Korean Journal of Systematic Zoology 15: 183-187. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Kim, S. T. & Lee, S. Y. (2018c). Spiders IV. Arthropoda: Arachnida: Araneae: Atypidae, Scytodidae, Nesticidae, Anapidae, Ctenidae, Hahniidae, Miturgidae, Liocranidae, Trochanteriidae. Invertebrate Fauna of Korea 21(45): 1-79. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lehtinen, P. T. & Saaristo, M. I. (1980). Spiders of the Oriental-Australian region. II. Nesticidae. Annales Zoologici Fennici 17: 47-66. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Liu, J. & Li, S. Q. (2013a). New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China. Zootaxa 3613: 501-547. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Marusik, Y. M. & Guseinov, E. (2003). Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 1. New family and genus records. Arthropoda Selecta 12(1): 29-46. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Paik, K. Y. (1996f). A newly record species of the genus Nesticus Thorell, 1869 (Araneae: Nesticidae) from Korea. Korean Arachnology 12(2): 71-75. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pantini, P., Bonelli, D. & Bonacci, T. (2020). I ragni epigei (Arachnida, Araneae) di un ambiente litoraneo della Calabria. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 32: 25-32. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Pfliegler, W. P. (2014). Records of some rare and interesting spider (Araneae) species from anthropogenic habitats in Debrecen, Hungary. e-Acta Naturalia Pannonica 7: 143-156. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Sherwood, D., Jocqué, R., Henrard, A. & Fowler, L. (2023b). The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306(3): 397-400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5306.3.8 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Shimojana, M. (1977a). Preliminary report on the cave spider fauna of the Ryukyu Archipelago. Acta Arachnologica 27(Spec. No.): 337-365. doi:10.2476/asjaa.27.Specialnumber_337 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House, Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y., Iida, K., Sawahata, T. & Hayasaka, D. (2018). [Spiders collected with pitfalls trap at Kuchinoerabu Island]. Kishidaia 113: 32-34. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Suzuki, Y. (2019c). [Michinoku spider trip 2018]. Kishidaia 115: 74-86. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1970b). Two new species of small nesticid spiders of Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 13: 385-394. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1972f). Revision of the short-legged nesticid spiders of Japan. Bulletin of the National Museum of Nature and Science Tokyo 15: 619-622. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1977a). Some problems in cave spiders of Japan (including a description of a new species). Faculty of Letters Revue, Otemon Gakuin University 11: 305-316. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Yaginuma, T. (1979a). A study of the Japanese species of nesticid spiders. Faculty of Letters Revue, Otemon Gakuin University 13: 255-287. 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

Yin, C. M., Peng, X. J., Yan, H. M., Bao, Y. H., Xu, X., Tang, G., Zhou, Q. S. & Liu, P. (2012). Fauna Hunan: Araneae in Hunan, China. Hunan Science and Technology Press, Changsha, 1590 pp. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Zhu, M. S. & Zhang, B. S. (2011). Spider Fauna of Henan: Arachnida: Araneae. Science Press, Beijing, 558 pp. download pdf -- Show included taxa

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Date Type Reference Detail
2023-08-12 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon n/a (Old value)
2023-08-12 New taxonomic reference entry Ballarin & Eguchi, 2023 n/a
2023-06-21 Species synonymy Sherwood et al., 2023b Howaia helenensis synonymized with Howaia mogera
2023-06-21 New taxonomic reference entry Sherwood et al., 2023b n/a
2023-06-21 Species transferred to new genus Sherwood et al., 2023b Species transferred from Nesticella to Howaia
2023-06-21 Species distribution update Sherwood et al., 2023b n/a (Old value)
2021-10-13 New taxonomic reference entry Hänggi et al., 2021 n/a
2021-04-25 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki, 2019c n/a
2021-04-24 New taxonomic reference entry Suzuki et al., 2018 n/a
2020-08-03 New taxonomic reference entry Kim & Lee, 2018c n/a
2020-04-28 New taxonomic reference entry Pantini, Bonelli & Bonacci, 2020 n/a
2014-07-17 New taxonomic reference entry Pfliegler, 2014 n/a
2014-07-17 Species distribution update Pfliegler, 2014 n/a (Old value)
2014-05-28 New taxonomic reference entry Bielak-Bielecki & Rozwałka, 2011 n/a