Aituaria pontica (Spassky, 1932)
Description
Male
Colouration yellowish. Opisthosoma with dark lateral markings.
Body length male: 4.0 mmFemale
Prosoma light yellow, cephalic part with long setae and 3 blackish lines on the sides. Prosoma length: 1.36-2.5 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Sternum yellow, with black markings. Legs yellow, ventral side partly black. Opisthosoma: anterior part of dorsum ash-grey, posterior part weakly pointed.
Additional information
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp
(Mcheidze 1979)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fomichev et al. 2022)
Embolus
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Paracymbium
(Mcheidze 1979)
Paracymbium
(Mcheidze 1979)
Habitus, lateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Habitus
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Epigyne/vulva
(Mcheidze 1979)
Epigyne, caudal view
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani & Marusik 2021a)
Distribution List
References
Esyunin S L (2017) New data on Aituaria pontica (Spassky, 1932) (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26: 241-243 
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1998) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 8. New and unidentified species from steppe landscapes of the south Urals (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 145-152
Fomichev A A, Ballarin F, Marusik Y M (2022) A new genus of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 31: 99-110
Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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
Marusik Y M, Fedoriak M M, Koponen S, Prokopenko E V, Voloshyn V L (2017b) Taxonomic notes on two species of Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Ukraine, with the first description of the male of Carpathonesticus eriashvilii. Arachnology 17: 302-308
Mcheidze T S (1979) New species of spiders of the genus Dysdera Latr. (Dysderidae) occurring in Georgia. Soobshcheniia Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR 94: 465-468
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Marusik Y M (2021a) New taxa of six families of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 67: 81-91