Henriksenia nepenthicola
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Henriksenia nepenthicola, synonym Misumenops nepenthicola, is a species of crab spider. It is native to Singapore. It lives inside the pitchers of a number of lowland Nepenthes pitcher plants. As such, it is classified as a nepenthephile. They are slow-moving spiders which do not actively hunt. Males and females both reach a length of 6 mm.{{citation needed|date=October 2023}}
Taxonomy
The species was first described by Louis Fage in 1928 as Misumenops nepenthicola. It was transferred to the genus Henriksenia in 2009.{{citation |title=Taxon details Henriksenia nepenthicola (Fage, 1928) |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/61378 |access-date=2023-10-21 }} A complication is that in 1930, W. S. Bristowe used the name Misumenops nepenthicola for a different species. An application to preserve Bristowe's name over Fage's was rejected in 2007, and in 2009, Henriksenia labuanica was published as a replacement name for Bristowe's name.{{citation |title=Taxon details Henriksenia labuanica Striffler & Rembold, 2009 |work=World Spider Catalog |publisher=Natural History Museum Bern |url=https://www.wsc.nmbe.ch/species/61377 |access-date=2023-10-21 }}
In 2006, Pekka T. Lehtinen wrote that the name "Misumenops nepenthicola" had been used for at least five different species, possibly because of a mistaken belief that there was only one species of spider belonging to the tribe Misumenini living in Nepenthes pitchers.{{Citation |last1=Lehtinen |first1=Pekka T. |date=2006 |title=Case 3346 Misumena nepenthicola (currently Heinksenia nepenthicola; Arachnida, Araneae, Thomisidae): proposed attribution of authorship to Pocock (1898) |journal=The Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature |volume=63 |issue=2 |pages=102–105 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34352990 |access-date=2023-10-22 }}
References
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- Clarke, C. 1997. Nepenthes of Borneo. Natural History Publications (Borneo), Kota Kinabalu, p. 39.
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