Neat Comb-footed Spider Nihonhimea mundula (L. Koch, 1872)
Fauna Portal species: 9306
Nihonhimea mundula female, lateral (HBI N35270-6; Wallingat River Camp, Wallingat National Park, New South Wales)
Image: V.W. Framenau (2025)
Fauna Portal Image No. 11690Diagnosis
Nihonhimea mundula is easily distinguished from other comb-footed spiders by the distinct abdominal colouration.
Nihonhimea tesselata has been reported from Australia, but these may be misidentifications of N. mundula. Illustrations of N. tesselata by Levi (1959) do not the posterior broad rim of the female epigyne. Nihonhimea mundula has here been identified based on Chrysanthus (1963) who studied the holotype of N. mundula; curiously, he considered N. mundula and N. tesselata the same species in which case N. mundula has priority.
Status
- native
Linnean Holotype
Australia
- New South Wales
- Queensland
Neighbouring Countries
- Papua New Guinea
Fauna Portal Records
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Publications
(1963): Spiders from south New Guinea V. Nova Guinea, Zoology. 24: 727 - 750
(1959): The spider genera Achaearanea, Theridion and Sphyrotinus from Mexico, Central America and the West Indies (Araneae, Theridiidae). Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 121: 57 - 163