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

Heptathela helios Tanikawa & Miyashita, 2014

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:047369

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Described:

Distribution: Japan (Ryukyu Is.)

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Holotype: Department of Zoology of the National Museum of Nature and Science (NSMT-Ar), Tokyo, Japan m (12851) - (Xu et al., 2019b)

Taxonomic References

Heptathela helios Tanikawa & Miyashita, 2014: 68, f. 4A-G (Dmf) Original description

Heptathela helios Xu et al., 2019b: 44, f. 24A-M (mf)

References

Tanikawa, A. & Miyashita, T. (2014). Discovery of a cryptic species of Heptathela from the northernmost part of Okinawajima Is., Southwest Japan, as revealed by mitochondrial and nuclear DNA. Acta Arachnologica 63(2): 65-72. doi: 10.2476/asjaa.63.65 -- 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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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference
2019-11-14	New taxonomic reference entry	Xu et al., 2019b
2015-02-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Tanikawa & Miyashita, 2014
2015-02-18	New species inserted	Tanikawa & Miyashita, 2014