Common Matchstick Spider
This species name "phyllicola" means "leaf" (in Greek) and "inhabitant" (in Latin), but such characterisation is shared by all Nipisa, and other pholcids such as Cantikus and Leptopholcus.
The colour may range from yellowish to earthy-yellow. The male is distinguished from N. anai by the structure of its male palps. The female differs from N. anai by the shape of its egg sac. Consisting of 8–12 eggs, it is arranged in an elongated cluster, not in a single row.
| Length | ♀ 4–5 mm; ♂ 4–5 mm. |
| Habitat | Underside of leaves in primary and secondary forests. |
| Type Locality | East Kalimantan, Indonesia. |
| Distribution | Indonesia (North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Aceh), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak), Singapore, Thailand. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Suborder Araneomorphae (Typical Spiders)
Calapnita phyllicola (Original description ♂♀)
Calapnita phyllicola
Huber, 2000 New World pholcid spiders (Araneae: Pholcidae): A revision at generic level: 42, f doi:10.1206/0003-0090(2000)254<0001:NWPSAP>2.0.CO;2
Calapnita phyllicola (♂♀ & ♀ of P. phasmoides, f. 70-71, 196-197, after Huber, 2017: 17)
Huber, 2011b Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae): 51, f. 46, 64, 66, 170-188
Calapnita phyllicola (♂♀)
Huber, 2017 Revision and cladistic analysis of the Southeast Asian leaf-dwelling spider genus Calapnita Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae): 17, f. 13-15, 45-54 doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4219.1.1
Nipisa phyllicola (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
Indonesia (North Sumatra, East Kalimantan, South Kalimantan, Aceh), Malaysia (Peninsular Malaysia, Sarawak), Singapore, Thailand.