Carpathonesticus simoni (Fage, 1931)
Description
Male
Prosoma 2.1 mm long.
Female
Prosoma 2.4 mm long. Prosoma and appendages pale reddish yellow, prosoma and opisthosoma with very faint pattern, opisthosoma with 3 pairs of blotches.
Additional information
In caves.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Fage 1931)
Pedipalp
(Dumitrescu 1979)
Tip of embolus
(Dumitrescu 1979)
Embolic division
(Dumitrescu 1979)
Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Fage 1931)
Paracymbium
(Dumitrescu 1979)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Dumitrescu 1979)
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.
References
Dumitrescu M (1979) La monographie des représentants du genre Nesticus des grottes de Roumania. I note. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 18: 53-84 
Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291
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
Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 22-09-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 29-05-2015 | Image insert | |
| 08-07-2014 | Image insert |