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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Typhlonesticus  Kulczyński, 1914   8 species

Typhlonesticus morisii (Brignoli, 1975)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.5 mm long.

Body length male: 3.6 mm
Female

Prosoma whitish, sternum yellowish. Prosoma 1.6 mm long. Eyes scarcely visible. Legs yellowish.

Body length female: 4.4 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Alps)
Figures
Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1975a) Ragni d'Italia XXV. Su alcuni ragni cavernicoli dell'Italia settentrionale (Araneae). Notiziario del Circolo Speleologico Romano 20: 7-39 pdf

Isaia M, Lana E, Paschetta M, Pantini P, Schönhofer A L, Christian E, Badino G (2011) Aracnidi sotterranei delle Alpi Occidentali italiane (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones)/ Subterranean Arachnids of the Western Italian Alps (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpiones). Monografie Del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali Torino 47: 1-325 pdf

Isaia M, Nicolosi G, Infuso A, Ribera C (2023b) Two new subterranean Typhlonesticus (Araneae: Nesticidae) from the Alps with notes on their ecology, distribution and conservation. Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny 81: 801-818 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

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
07-11-2023 Image insert
07-12-2015 Distribution update Detail
07-01-2014 Distribution update Detail