Beaded Egg Sac Matchstick Spider
With a colour varying from whitish to yellowish green, this species can be identified with certainty only through microscopic examination of its sexual organs. Nevertheless, the egg sac offers a clue to distinguish it from N. phyllicola. the other Nipisa species found in Singapore. In this species, the egg sac is like a string of beads, comprising 9-12 eggs arranged in a single row.
Huber
| Length | ♀ 5–6 mm; ♂ 5–6 mm |
| Distribution | Singapore, Malaysia (Pahang), Indonesia (West Sumatra). |
| Habitat | Under leaves in secondary forest. Sometimes under banana leaves along forest edges. |
| Biology | The web is made of a dense sheet, close to the leaf surface, visible only when the leaf is seen from the side against the light. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Holotype
Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig (ZFMK), Bonn, Germany (data base search of type material, 18.01.2019); ♂ (Ar16016)
Calapnita anai (Original description ♂♀)
Huber, 2017 Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae): 29, f. 11-12, 107-119 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1
Nipisa anai (Transferred from Calapnita)
Huber, Eberle & Dimitrov, 2018 The phylogeny of pholcid spiders: a critical evaluation of relationships suggested by molecular data (Araneae, Pholcidae): 84 doi:10.3897/zookeys.789.22781
* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.
Singapore, Malaysia (Pahang), Indonesia (West Sumatra).