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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Domitius  Ribera, 2018   8 species

Domitius sbordonii (Brignoli, 1979)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006711

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.8 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 4.4 mm
Female

Prosoma whitish, 1.6 mm long. Eyes not ringed with blak, AME very reduced, PME 2 diameters apart. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin, and behind with numerous teeth. Legs yellowish.

Body length female: 4.1 mm
Additional information

Only one male and one female known. In cave.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera 2018)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Paracymbium
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

male Cheliceral teeth
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

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female Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Epigyne
(Ribera 2018)

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female Epigyne
(Ballarin 2020)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Vulva
(Ribera 2018)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Ballarin F (2020) Domitius culsu sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new troglobiont spider from Italy with notes on Italian nesticids of the genus Domitius Ribera, 2018. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 82-94 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979h) Ragni d'Italia XXXI. Specie cavernicole nuove o interessanti (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 5(10): 1-48 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

Ribera C (2018) A new genus of nesticid spiders from western European Peninsulas (Araneae, Nesticidae). Zootaxa 4407: 229-240 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
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