Domitius speluncarum (Pavesi, 1873)
Description
Male
Characters as in female.
Body length male: 6.4 mmFemale
Close to N. eremita. Prosoma 1.6-1.9 mm long. Prosoma, sternum and legs uniformly coloured. Eyes very small, AME absent.
Body length female: 8 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1971d)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ribera 2018)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera 2018)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin 2020)
Cymbium, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1971d)
Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1971d)
Epigyne
(Brignoli 1971d)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1915)
Epigyne
(Ballarin 2020)
Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971d)
Chelicera, frontal view
(Brignoli 1971d)
Cheliceral seta
(Brignoli 1971d)
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
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 
Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229
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
Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91
Kulczyński W (1915) Fragmenta arachnologica, XVIII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1915: 897-942
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
Ribera C (2018) A new genus of nesticid spiders from western European Peninsulas (Araneae, Nesticidae). Zootaxa 4407: 229-240
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 19-09-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 19-09-2025 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 03-05-2024 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 03-05-2024 | Distribution insert | Detail |
| 28-06-2020 | Image insert | |
| 10-04-2018 | Image insert | |
| 23-01-2017 | Datasheet update | Detail |
| 23-01-2017 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 03-06-2014 | Image insert | |
| 21-05-2013 | Image insert |