Nesticella mogera

Nesticella mogera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Nesticidae
Genus:	Nesticella
Species:	N. mogera
Binomial name
	Nesticella mogera; (Yaginuma, 1972)
Synonyms
	Nesticus terrestris (misid.); Nesticus mogera; Howaia mogera

Nesticella mogera is a spider from the family Nesticidae. It is the type species of the genus Nesticella.

Distribution[]

Discovered in Japan, it is found in Hawaii, Fiji, Azerbaijan, China, Korea and in 2009 in German greenhouses.^[1]

The name is derived from mogura (土竜(もぐら) the Japanese word for mole. N. mogera has been found in Japan in burrows of moles (Yaginuma 1970).^[1]

Kielhorn, K.-H. (2009) "First records of , Nesticella mogera and on the European Mainland (Araneae: Pholcidae, Nesticidae, Anapidae)" Arachnol. Mitt. 37: 31-34. PDF
Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 10.5. American Museum of Natural History, New York.

This article related to araneomorph spiders is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .