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Linyphiidae Neriene

Neriene macella (Thorell, 1898)

Common Southeast Asian Neriene

In both sexes, the abdomen is broadly rounded posteriorly, and protrudes towards the rear and slopes steeply towards the spinnerets, giving it an excavated or caved-in look when viewed from the side. The male dorsum has a large median brownish girdle. The abdomen of the female is black with a pair of lateral streaks made of white blotches around the middle, and two pairs of shorter and indistinct white lateral bands nearer the spinnerets.

Length♀ 3–4 mm; ♂ 4 mm
Type LocalityManmaw, Kachin, Myanmar
DistributionSingapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak), Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Philippines, China, India.
HabitatWasteland and forest fringes.

Taxonomy

Taxonomic references*

  1. Linyphia multidens (Original description ♀)

    Thorell, 1898 Viaggio di Leonardo Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine: 321

  2. Linyphia passercula (Original description ♂)

    Simon, 1901k On the Arachnida collected during the Skeat expedition to the Malay Peninsula: 54 doi:10.1111/j.1469-7998.1901.tb08164.x

  3. Neriene macella (mf, Transferred from Linyphia, Synonym of Linyphia multidens and L. passercula)

    van Helsdingen, 1969 A reclassification of the species of Linyphia Latreille based on the functioning of the genitalia (Araneida, Linyphiidae), I: 186, f. 257-262

  4. Neriene macella (♂♀)

    Locket, 1982 Some linyphiid spiders from western Malaysia: 383, f. 106-111

  5. Neriene macella (♂♀)

    Chen, Li & Zhao, 1995 A new record of spider of the genus Neriene from China (Araneae: Linyphiidae): 137, f. 1-10

  6. Neriene macella (♂♀)

    Song, Zhu & Chen, 1999 The spiders of China: 194, f. 111C-D, K-L

  7. Neriene macella (♂♀)

    Tanasevitch, 2014b New species and records of linyphiid spiders from Laos (Araneae, Linyphiidae): 85, f. 66-74 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3841.1.3

  8. Neriene macella (♂♀)

    Li, Liu & Chen, 2018 A review of some Neriene spiders (Araneae, Linyphiidae) from China: 57, f. 44A-H, 45A-F, 46A-F doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4513.1.1

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Neriene macella (Thorell, 1898)

Singapore, Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak), Brunei, Thailand, Myanmar, Laos, Philippines, China, India.

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