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Genus: Heptathela Kishida, 1923 | Family: Liphistiidae Thorell, 1869

Heptathela higoensis Haupt, 1983

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Described:

Distribution: Japan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA m - (Xu et al., 2019b)
Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan f of Heptathela nishikawai - (Xu et al., 2019b)
Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan f of Heptathela yaginumai - (Xu et al., 2019b)

Taxonomic References

Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 1983: 283, f. 12a, 13a (Dmf) Original description

Heptathela higoensis Ono, 1998: 16, f. 5-10 (mf, elevated from subspecies)

Heptathela nishikawai Ono, 1998: 19, f. 17-18 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000018]

Heptathela yaginumai Ono, 1998: 20, f. 19-20 (Df) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:000027]

Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 2003: 69, f. 43G (f)

Heptathela kimurai higoensis Haupt, 2003: 69, f. 50C-D, 52O, 54I-L, 62K (mf)

Heptathela higoensis Ono, 2009a: 80, f. 60-65 (mf)

Heptathela nishikawai Ono, 2009a: 83, f. 81-84 (f, Dm)

Heptathela yaginumai Ono, 2009a: 81, f. 66-67 (f)

Heptathela higoensis Xu et al., 2015a: 133, f. 15-19 (m)

Heptathela higoensis Xu et al., 2019b: 9, f. 2E, 4A-K, 5A-D (mf, S of Heptathela nishikawai and H. yaginumai)

References

Haupt, J. (1983). Vergleichende Morphologie der Genitalorgane und Phylogenie der liphistiomorphen Webspinnen (Araneae: Mesothelae). I. Revision der bisher bekannten Arten. Zeitschrift für Zoologische Systematik und Evolutionsforschung 21(4): 275-293. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0469.1983.tb00296.x -- Show included taxa

Haupt, J. (2003). The Mesothelae -- a monograph of an exceptional group of spiders (Aaneae: Mesothelae): (Morphology, behaviour, ecology, taxonomy, distribution and phylogeny). Zoologica 154: 1-102. -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (1998). Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum Tokyo 30: 13-27. -- Show included taxa

Ono, H. (2009a). The spiders of Japan with keys to the families and genera and illustrations of the species. Tokai University Press, Kanagawa, 739 pp. -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Liu, F. X., Chen, J., Ono, H., Li, D. Q. & Kuntner, M. (2015a). A genus-level taxonomic review of primitively segmented spiders (Mesothelae, Liphistiidae). ZooKeys 488: 121-151. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.488.8726 -- Show included taxa

Xu, X., Ono, H., Kuntner, M., Liu, F. X. & Li, D. Q. (2019b). A taxonomic monograph of the liphistiid spider genus Heptathela, endemic to Japanese islands. ZooKeys 888: 1-50. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.888.34494 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2019-11-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Xu et al., 2019b
2019-11-14	Species synonymy	Xu et al., 2019b	Heptathela yaginumai synonymized with Heptathela higoensis
2019-11-14	Species synonymy	Xu et al., 2019b	Heptathela nishikawai synonymized with Heptathela higoensis
2015-05-04	New taxonomic reference entry	Xu et al., 2015a