Henriksenia nepenthicola

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Henriksenia nepenthicola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Thomisidae
Genus: Henriksenia
Species:
H. nepenthicola
Binomial name
Henriksenia nepenthicola
(Fage, 1928) [1]
Synonyms [1]
  • Misumenops nepenthicolaFage, 1928; not Bristowe, 1930

Henriksenia nepenthicola, synonym Misumenops nepenthicola, is a species of crab spider. It is native to Singapore. [1] It lives inside the pitchers of a number of lowland Nepenthes pitcher plants. As such, it is classified as a nepenthephile. They are slow-moving spiders which do not actively hunt. Males and females both reach a length of 6 mm.[ citation needed ]

Taxonomy

The species was first described by Louis Fage in 1928 as Misumenops nepenthicola. It was transferred to the genus Henriksenia in 2009. [1] A complication is that in 1930, W. S. Bristowe used the name Misumenops nepenthicola for a different species. An application to preserve Bristowe's name over Fage's was rejected in 2007, and in 2009, Henriksenia labuanica was published as a replacement name for Bristowe's name. [2]

In 2006, Pekka T. Lehtinen wrote that the name "Misumenops nepenthicola" had been used for at least five different species, possibly because of a mistaken belief that there was only one species of spider belonging to the tribe Misumenini living in Nepenthes pitchers. [3]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Taxon details Henriksenia nepenthicola (Fage, 1928)", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2023-10-21
  2. "Taxon details Henriksenia labuanica Striffler & Rembold, 2009", World Spider Catalog, Natural History Museum Bern, retrieved 2023-10-21
  3. Lehtinen, Pekka T. (2006), "Case 3346 Misumena nepenthicola (currently Heinksenia nepenthicola; Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae): proposed attribution of authorship to Pocock (1898)", The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 63 (2): 102–105, retrieved 2023-10-22