Nesticus

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Nesticus
Male Nesticus sp. (Marshal Hedin).jpg
male Nesticus sp.
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nesticidae
Genus: Nesticus
Thorell, 1869
Type species
Nesticus cellulanus
Clerck, 1757
Species

125, see text

Synonyms

Nesticus is a genus of American and Eurasian scaffold web spiders first described by Tamerlan Thorell in 1869. [3]

Contents

Species

As of March 2022 it contains the following species: [4]

See also

References

  1. Kaston, B. J. (1945). "New Micryphantidae and Dictynidae with notes on other spiders". American Museum Novitates (1292).
  2. 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.
  3. Thorell, T. (1869). "On European spiders. Part I. Review of the European genera of spiders, preceded by some observations on zoological nomenclature". Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis. 3 (7).
  4. "Gen. Nesticus Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 29 March 2022.