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Clubionidae Nusatidia

Nusatidia camouflata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001

Camouflage Green Sac Spider

This common yellow-green species resembles N. borneensis but is smaller in size. It can be identified only from its genitalia and pigmentation of its venter. The female venter has three blue-green spots. The male venter shows a series of three indistinct irregularly-shaped blue-green patches along its longitudinal axis. There is a pair of tiny blue-green spots just in front of the spinnerets. (The blue-green pigmentation is discoloured in preserved specimens. )

Length♀4 –5 mm; ♂ 4–5 mm
Type LocalityKanchanaburi, Thailand
DistributionSingapore, Thailand (Kanchanaburi).
HabitatCanopy and understorey of primary and secondary rainforests

Taxonomy

Type Deposits*

  1. Holotype

    Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands; ♂ (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001)

  2. Paratype

    Naturalis, National Museum of Natural History (RMNH), Leiden, Netherlands; 1♂ 3♀ (Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001)

Taxonomic references*

  1. Nusatidia camouflata (Original description ♂♀)

    Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001 Forest spiders of South East Asia: with a revision of the sac and ground spiders (Araneae: Clubionidae, Corinnidae, Liocranidae, Gnaphosidae, Prodidomidae and Trochanterriidae [sic]): 176, f. 169-174

  2. Nusatidia camouflata (♂)

    Zhang, Yu & Li, 2021c On the clubionid spiders (Araneae, Clubionidae) from Xishuangbanna, China, with descriptions of two new genera and seven new species: 93, f. 9A-E, 10A-C doi:10.3897/zookeys.1062.66845

* Retrieved from the World Spider Catalog.

Distribution Map for Nusatidia camouflata Deeleman-Reinhold, 2001

Singapore, Thailand (Kanchanaburi).

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