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Achaearanea mundula

Minibeast photographs and field observations.

Tropical rainforest vegetation at Singapore Botanic Gardens
Photo: Daniel Case, CC BY-SA 4.0

Species notes

About Achaearanea mundula

Achaearanea mundula is treated by the GBIF Backbone as a synonym of Nihonhimea mundula (also recorded as Comb-footed platform spider), an accepted species in the family Theridiidae, within the order Araneae. Checklist records aggregated by GBIF list it from Indonesia (New Guinea), Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi), and Seychelles, India to New Caledonia. Spiders are arachnids rather than insects: adults have eight legs, no antennae and a body divided into two main regions.

Common name
Comb-footed platform spider
Family
Theridiidae
Order
Araneae
Identification rank
Species
Recorded distribution
Indonesia (New Guinea), Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi), Seychelles, India to New Caledonia

Taxonomy source: GBIF Backbone Taxonomy