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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Domitius  Ribera, 2018   8 species

Domitius luquei (Ribera & Guerao, 1995)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.8 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 3.9 mm
Female

Prosoma whitish, sometimes with a thin grey borderline. Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Eyes well developed, ringed with brown, PME more than one diameter apart. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Legs whitish or pale yellowish. Opisthosoma whitish or greyish, sometimes with 2 pairs of dorsal faint patches.

Body length female: 3.5 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Ribera C, Guerao G (1995) Nesticus luquei n. sp. (Arachnida, Araneae) une nouvelle espece cavernicole du nord de l'espagne. Mémoires de Biospéologie 22: 121-124 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-04-2018 Image insert
08-07-2014 Image insert