| Nipisa | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Pholcidae |
| Genus: | Nipisa Huber, 2018 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Calapnita phyllicola (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986) | |
| Species | |
10, see text | |
Nipisa is a genus of southeast Asian cellar spiders erected in 2018 after a molecular phylogenetic study of Pholcidae. It consists of ten Calapnita species, previously the phyllicola group of Pholcidae, now elevated to genus rank. [2] They are pale whitish in color, with a cylindrical abdomen and relatively long legs. [3] The name is derived from the Malay "nipis", meaning "thin", in reference to the long, thin abdomen. [2]
