Singapore Midget Cobweb Spider
Nescina kohi can be recognised by the characters discussed above, together with its small size (slightly over 1 mm in both sexes), its habitat preference (leaf litter), the number of eyes (eight), the lack of armour plating on the body, and the fine details of both the male and female genitalia.
Length | ♀ < 2 mm; ♂ < 2 mm |
Type Locality | Singapore |
Distribution | Singapore. |
Habitat | Secondary forest leaf litter. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Nescina kohi (Original description ♂♀)
Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 A survey of the spider family Nesticidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in Asia and Madagascar, with the description of forty-three new species: 20, f. 6A-D, 7A-G doi:10.3897/zookeys.627.8629
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore.