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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Carpathonesticus  Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980   25 species

Carpathonesticus carpaticus (Dumitrescu, 1979)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.4 mm long. Characters as in female, but pattern more distinct.

Female

Close to N. diaconui. Prosoma pale yellowish, with faint pattern and dark thin borderline. Prosoma 2.3 mm long. Sternum and appendages reddish yellow. Eyes well developed, ringed with brown. Opisthosoma with faint pattern.

Additional information

In caves. Altitude 1220 m.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Romania
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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.

Romania   (Weiss & Petrișor, 1999) |||
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 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

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 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
22-09-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-05-2015 Image insert