Kryptonesticus arenstorffi (Kulczyński, 1914)
Description
Male
Characters as in female.
Female
Epigyne a little wider than long. Prosoma 2.1 mm long. Colouration pale reddish brown. Eyes well developed, median ocular quadrangle. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth, behind with 5 teeth.
Additional information
In caves.
Locus typicus in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Kulczyński, 1914), but the exact location is unknown (see Pavlek & Ribera 2017).
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Chelicera, frontal view
(Kratochvíl 1933)
Pedipalp
(Kratochvíl 1933)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Pedipalp, apical view
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Paracymbium, retrolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1933)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1914)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kratochvíl 1933)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Epigyne
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Epigyne
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Vulva
(Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
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
Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1974) The cave spider fauna of Montenegro (Araneae). Glasnik Republickog Zavoda za Zastitu Prirode i Prirodnjackog Muzeja Titogradu 6: 9-33 
Komnenov M (2010) Checklist of spiders (Araneae) of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Uzizaž i Biospeld 5(2009): 52-69
Kratochvíl J (1933) Evropské druhy celedi Nesticidae Dahl [Les espèces européenes de la famille Nesticidae Dahl]. Práce Moravské Přírodovědecké Společnosti 8 (10): 1-69
Kulczyński W (1914) Aranearum species novae minusve cognitae, in montibus Kras dictis a Dre C. Absolon aliisque collectae. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1914: 353-387
Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316
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
Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89
Pavlek M, Ribera C (2017) Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species. European Journal of Taxonomy 262: 1-27
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2