Nesticella is a genus of spiders of the family Nesticidae.[1] Most of its species are found in Asia—from Russia to Japan, down to Indonesia and several other islands, including New Guinea—though some species from Africa and South-America are also known. It includes a blind spider, Nesticella marapu.

Nesticella
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nesticidae
Genus: Nesticella
Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980
Species

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Diversity
72 species

Species

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Nesticella comprises the following species:[2]

References

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  • Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History.
  1. ^ Liu, Jie; Li, Shuqiang (2013). "New cave-dwelling spiders of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) from China". Zootaxa. 3613 (6): 501–547. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3613.6.1. PMID 24698836. S2CID 33788520.
  2. ^ "Nesticella species list | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Genus Nesticella details | NMBE - World Spider Catalog". www.wsc.nmbe.ch. Retrieved 1 February 2017.