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Comb-footed Platform Spiders
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Comb-footed Platform Spiders

Nihonhimea

Nihonhimea is a genus of spiders in the family Theridiidae. It was first described in 2016 by Yoshida.

The genus name is a combination of Japanese 日本 nihon "Japan", and "-himea", possible from Japanese

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6 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Comb-footed platform spider

speciesNihonhimea mundula

Nihonhimea japonica

speciesNihonhimea japonica

Nihonhimea tesselata

speciesNihonhimea tesselata

Nihonhimea tikaderi

speciesNihonhimea tikaderi

Nihonhimea indica

speciesNihonhimea indica

Nihonhimea brookesiana

speciesNihonhimea brookesiana

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Recorded sightings

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 713068.