Taxonavigation

Familia: Liphistiidae
Genus: Heptathela
Species: Heptathela kimurai

Name

Heptathela kimurai (Kishida, 1920)

Type locality: Shiroyama, Kagoshima, Kyushu, Japan

Holotype ♀: Lost in TI (X-1920, A. Kimura leg.)

Neotype ♂: In ZSZMH (from the type locality, 21-III-1982, adult in VIII-1982, J. Haupt leg., but the neotype may be lost according to Dunlop et al. 2014)

References

• Kishida, K. 1920. [Occurrence of a liphistiid spider in Japan]. Zoological Magazine Tokyo 32: 360–363. (In Japanese) [362 f. 1]
• Ono, H. 1998. Spiders of the genus Heptathela (Araneae, Liphistiidae) from Kyushu, Japan. Memoirs of the National Science Museum 30: 13–27. [14, f. 1-4] PDF
• Schwendinger, P.J & Ono, H. 2011. On two Heptathela species from southern Vietnam, with a discussion of copulatory organs and systematics of the Liphistiidae (Araneae: Mesothelae). Revue suisse de zoologie 118(4): 599–637. BHL Reference page.  [see p. 614]

Vernacular names

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