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Genus: Nippononeta Eskov, 1992 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Nippononeta alpina (Li & Zhu, 1993)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:011482

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Described:

Distribution: China

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Holotype: Jilin University (JLU) [= Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences], Changchun, China m - (Li & Zhu, 1995)
Allotype: Jilin University (JLU) [= Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences], Changchun, China f - (Li & Zhu, 1995)
Paratype: Jilin University (JLU) [= Norman Bethune University of Medical Sciences], Changchun, China 8m 22f - (Li & Zhu, 1995)

Taxonomic References

Macrargus alpinus Li & Zhu in Song, Zhu & Li, 1993: 863, f. 21A-I (Dmf) Original description

Macrargus alpinus Li, Song & Zhu, 1994: 81, f. 31-33 (f)

Macrargus alpinus Li & Zhu, 1995: 41, f. 2a-i (mf)

Macrargus alpinus Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999: 186, f. 104D, G, J (mf)

Nippononeta alpina Bao, Bai & Tu, 2017: 137, f. 2A-K, 3A-H, 4A-H, 5A-H (mf, T from Macrargus)

Nippononeta alpina Irfan et al., 2025a: 120, f. 156A-D, 157A-B, 158A-D (mf)

References

Bao, M. D., Bai, Z. S. & Tu, L. H. (2017). On a desmitracheate “micronetine” Nippononeta alpina (Li & Zhu, 1993), comb. n. (Araneae, Linyphiidae). ZooKeys 645: 133-146. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.645.10685 -- Show included taxa

Irfan, M., Zhou, G. C., Peng, X. J. & Zhang, Z. S. (2025a). Survey of Linyphiidae spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from some oriental regions of China. Megataxa 15(1): 1-248. doi: 10.11646/megataxa.15.1.1 -- Show included taxa

Li, S. Q., Song, D. X. & Zhu, C. D. (1994). On the classification of spiders of subfamily Linyphiinae, Linyphiidae. Sinozoologia 11: 77-82. -- Show included taxa

Li, S. Q. & Zhu, C. D. (1995). Five new species of linyphiid spiders from China (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 20: 39-48. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Li, S. Q. (1993). Arachnida: Araneae. In: Huang, C. M. (ed.) Animals of Longqi Mountain. China Forestry Publishing House, Beijing, pp. 852-890. -- Show included taxa

Song, D. X., Zhu, M. S. & Chen, J. (1999). The spiders of China. Hebei Science and Technology Publishing House Shijiazhuang, 640 pp. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Comment
2025-01-18	New taxonomic reference entry	Irfan et al., 2025a
2017-01-15	New taxonomic reference entry	Bao, Bai & Tu, 2017
2017-01-15	Species transferred to new genus	Bao, Bai & Tu, 2017	Species transferred from Macrargus to Nippononeta