Heptathela kimurai

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Mesothelae
Main Page Superregnum: Eukaryota Regnum: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Subphylum: Chelicerata Classis: Arachnida Ordo: Araneae Subordo: Mesothelae

Familia: Liphistiidae
Genus: Heptathela
Species: Heptathela kimurai

Name

Heptathela kimurai (Kishida, 1920)

Type locality: Shiroyama, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan

Holotype ♀: Lost in TIU (X-1920, A. Kimura leg.)

Neotype ♂: In ZSZMH (from the type locality, 21-III-1982, adult in VIII-1982, J. Haupt leg.)

Synonyms

• Liphistius kimurai Kishida, 1920
• Heptathela kimurai — Kishida, 1923

References

• Kishida, K. 1920. [Occurrence of a liphistiid spider in Japan]. Zoological Magazine Tokyo 32: 360-363. (In Japanese) [362 f. 1]
• Ono, H. 1998. Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 30: 13-27. [14, f. 1-4] PDF

selected references

• 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. [publication date: 'décembre 2011', sourced from first page of article] abstract ZooBank
  • find all Wikispecies pages which cite this reference [see p. 614]

Vernacular names

English: Kimura-gumo
日本語: キムラグモ
русский: Паук погребной японский

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