Palp: bulb nearly as wide as long, embolus shorter than the bulb, its tip curved. Prosoma 2.9-5.3 mm long.
Prosoma 3.9-4.2 mm long. Eyes absent, or small pale eyes. Chelicerae: promargin and retromargin each with 2 teeth. Legs: anterior tibia with 0 to 10 ventral spines, metatarsus with 0 to 8 ventral spines.
Body length female: 6.5-12 mmIn caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
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Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1993) The genus Rhode and the harpacteine genera Stalagtia, Folkia, Minotauria, and Kaemis (Araneae, Dysderidae) of Yugoslavia and Crete, with remarks on the genus Harpactea. Revue Arachnologique 10: 105-135
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
Özkütük R S, Yağmur E A, Kunt K B, Karaduman N (2019d) Redescription of Harpactea christodeltshevi Bayram, Kunt & Yağmur, 2009 (Araneae, Dysderidae) from Turkey. Commagene Journal of Biology 3: 75-78
Varol M İ (2016b) Stalagtia hercegovinensis (Nosek, 1905), a new record from Turkey (Araneae: Dysderidae). Serket 15: 44-46
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2