Kingdom Animalia Class Arachnida Suborder Araneomorphae Scientific name Nesticella mogera | Phylum Arthropoda Order Araneae Family Nesticidae Rank Species | |
Similar Scaffold web spider, Linyphiidae, Theridiidae | ||
Nesticella mogera is a spider from the Nesticidae family. It is the type species of the genus Nesticella.
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Distribution
Discovered in Japan, it is found in Hawaii, Fiji, Azerbaijan, China, Korea and in 2009 in German greenhouses.
Name
The name is derived from mogura (土竜(もぐら) the Japanese word for mole. N. mogera has been found in Japan in burrows of moles (Yaginuma 1970).
References
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