Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Howaia  Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980   1 species

Howaia mogera  (Yaginuma, 1972)

Description
Male

Prosoma brown, cephalic part with grey pattern consisting of 3 converging lines. Legs yellow-brown. Opisthosoma dark grey, dorsum with broad, light median band reaching mid part of abdomen, venter with lateral row of lights spots, originating from epigastric furrow and reaching the spinnerets.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 2.7 mm
Additional information

This species of Asian origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Primarily found in buildings

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): China, Korea, Japan. Introduced to St. Helena, Europe, Azerbaijan, Pacific islands
Phenology
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Czechia   (Růžička, 2016; Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Finland   (Koponen et al., 2016) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016; Kielhorn, 2009) ||| Hungary   (Pfliegler, 2014) ||| Italy   (Pantini et al., 2020a) ||| Netherlands   (Bloem & Noordijk, 2021) ||| Poland   (Rozwałka et al., 2013) ||| Russia, Eastern   (Esyunin et al., 2019) ||| Switzerland   (Hänggi et al., 2021) ||| United Kingdom   (Snazell & Smithers, 2007; Lavery, 2019) |||
References

Ballarin F, Eguchi K (2023) Integrative taxonomic revision of the genera Nesticella and Howaia in Japan with the description of five new species (Araneae, Nesticidae, Nesticellini). ZooKeys 1174: 219-272 pdf

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 pdf

Bloem G J, Noordijk J (2021) Arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Mesostigmata, Pseudoscorpiones) from tropical greenhouses at Rotterdam Zoo (the Netherlands), including a pholcid spider new to Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 61: 36-44 pdf

Esyunin S L, Agafonova O V, Bykova A A (2019) The first record of the introduced spider species Nesticella mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) from Russia (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 28: 131-134 pdf

Hänggi A, Bobbitt I, Kranz-Baltensperger Y, Bolzern A, Gilgado J D (2021) Spiders (Araneae) from Swiss hothouses, with records of four species new for Switzerland. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 67-74 pdf

Kielhorn K-H (2009) First records of Spermophora kerinci, Nesticella mogera and Pseudanapis aloha on the European Mainland (Araneae: Pholcidae, Nesticidae, Anapidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 37: 31-34 pdf

Koponen S, Fritzén N R, Pajunen T (2016) Checklist of spiders in Finland (Araneae). 6th version, December 2016, online at http://biolcoll.utu.fi/arach/checklist_of_spiders_in_Finland.htm pdf

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F (2003) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 1. New family and genus records. Arthropoda Selecta 12: 29-46 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Bonelli D, Bonacci T (2020a) I ragni epigei (Arachnida, Araneae) di un ambiente litoraneo della Calabria. Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "E. Caffi", Bergamo 32: 25-32 pdf

Pfliegler W P (2014) Records of some rare and interesting spider (Araneae) species from anthropogenic habitats in Debrecen, Hungary. e-Acta Naturalia Pannonica 7: 143-156 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Rozwałka R, Rutkowski T, Bielak-Bielecki P (2013) New data on introduced and rare synanthropic spider species (Arachnida: Araneae) in Poland. Annales Universitatis Mariae Curie-Skłodowska, Lublin-Polonia 68: 127-150 pdf

Růžička V (2016) Pavouci České republiky [Spiders of the Czech Republic]. Pavouk 40: 2-4 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html pdf

Sherwood D, Jocqué R, Henrard A, Fowler L (2023a) The scaffold web spider Nesticus helenensis Hubert, 1977, a junior synonym of Howaia mogera (Yaginuma, 1972) rest. comb., with revalidation of Howaia Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 (Araneae: Nesticidae). Zootaxa 5306: 397-400 pdf

Snazell R, Smithers P (2007) Pseudanapis aloha Forster (Araneae, Anapidae) from the Eden Project in Cornwall, England. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 14: 74-76 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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