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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Domitius  Ribera, 2018   8 species

Domitius menozzii (Caporiacco, 1934)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006566

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Description
Male

Prosoma 2.2 mm long.

Body length male: 5.2 mm
Female

Prosoma 2.3 mm long. Colouration uniform pale brownish. Eyes: AME very reduced.

Body length female: 6.5 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera 2018)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Epigyne
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Epigyne
(Ribera 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Ballarin 2020)

species

female Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Vulva
(Ribera 2018)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

Chelicera, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

Chelicera, frontal view
(Brignoli 1971d)

Distribution List

"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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Ballarin F (2020) Domitius culsu sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new troglobiont spider from Italy with notes on Italian nesticids of the genus Domitius Ribera, 2018. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 82-94 pdf

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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 pdf

Ribera C (2018) A new genus of nesticid spiders from western European Peninsulas (Araneae, Nesticidae). Zootaxa 4407: 229-240 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-06-2020 Image insert
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