''Nesticella'' is a

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of spiders of the family

Nesticidae Scaffold web spiders or cave cobweb spiders (Nesticidae) are a family of araneomorph spiders closely allied with tangle-web spiders (Theridiidae). Like the Theridiidae, these spiders have a comb of serrated bristles on the hind tarsi that are u ...

. Most of its species are found in Asia—from

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, down to

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and several other islands, including

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—though some species from Africa and South-America are also known. It includes a blind spider, '' Nesticella marapu''.

Species

''Nesticella'' comprises the following species: * '' Nesticella aelleni'' (Brignoli, 1972) – Sri Lanka * '' Nesticella africana'' (Hubert, 1970) – Congo * '' Nesticella apiculata'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella arcuata'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella baiseensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella baobab'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella beccus'' Grall & Jäger, 2016 * '' Nesticella benoiti'' (Hubert, 1970) – Zimbabwe * '' Nesticella brevipes'' (Yaginuma, 1970) – Russia, China, Korea, Japan * '' Nesticella buicongchieni'' (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Vietnam * '' Nesticella caeca'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella chillagoensis'' Wunderlich, 1995 – Queensland * '' Nesticella chongqing'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella connectens'' Wunderlich, 1995 – Malaysia * '' Nesticella dazhuangensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella ducke'' Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil * '' Nesticella falcata'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella foelixi'' Grall & Jäger, 2016 * '' Nesticella fuliangensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella gazuida'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella gongshanensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella gracilenta'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella griswoldi'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella helenensis'' (Hubert, 1977) – St. Helena * '' Nesticella hongheensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella huomachongensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella jingpo'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella kaohsiungensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella kerzhneri'' (Marusik, 1987) – Russia * '' Nesticella laotica'' Grall & Jäger, 2016 * '' Nesticella lisu'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella liuzhaiensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella machadoi'' (Hubert, 1971) – Angola * '' Nesticella marapu'' Benjamin, 2004 – Indonesia * '' Nesticella michaliki'' Grall & Jäger, 2016 * '' Nesticella mogera'' (Yaginuma, 1972) – Azerbaijan, China, Korea, Japan, Hawaii, Fiji; introduced to Germany * '' Nesticella mollicula'' (Thorell, 1898) * '' Nesticella murici'' Rodrigues & Buckup, 2007 – Brazil * '' Nesticella nandanensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella nepalensis'' (Hubert, 1973) – Nepal – type species. * '' Nesticella odonta'' (Chen, 1984) – China * '' Nesticella okinawaensis'' (Yaginuma, 1979) – Japan * '' Nesticella phami'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella potala'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella proszynskii'' (Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980) – Java * '' Nesticella qiaoqiensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella qiongensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella quelpartensis'' (Paik & Namkung, 1969) – Korea * '' Nesticella renata'' (Bourne, 1980) – New Ireland * '' Nesticella robinsoni'' Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea * '' Nesticella robusta'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella rongtangensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella sanchaheensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella sechellana'' (Simon, 1898) – Seychelles * '' Nesticella semicircularis'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella shanlinensis'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella sogi'' Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea * '' Nesticella songi'' Chen & Zhu, 2004 – China * '' Nesticella sulawesi'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella sumatrana'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella taurama'' Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980 – New Guinea * '' Nesticella tibetana'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella utuensis'' (Bourne, 1980) – New Ireland * '' Nesticella vanlang'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella verticalis'' Liu & Li, 2013 – China * '' Nesticella wanzaiensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella xiongmao'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella xixia'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella yanbeiensis'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella yao'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016 * '' Nesticella yui'' Wunderlich & Song, 1995 – China * '' Nesticella zhiyuani'' Lin, Ballarin & Li, 2016

References

* (2009)
The world spider catalog
version 10.5. ''American Museum of Natural History''. {{Taxonbar, from=Q2270188 Nesticidae Spiders of Asia Spiders of Africa Spiders of South America Araneomorphae genera Taxa named by Pekka T. Lehtinen