Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Caviphantes  Oi, 1960   2 species

Caviphantes dobrogicus (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962)

Description
Additional information

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2026): Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan
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Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Romania   (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962) ||| Russia, Southern   (Ponomarev et al., 2021b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Ukraine   (Polchaninova & Prokopenko, 2019) |||
References

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Dumitrescu M, Miller F (1962) Lessertiella dobrogica n gen. n. sp. araignée endémique de la grotte "Peștera Liliecilor dela Gura Dobrogei" (Aranea). Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické 59: 165-173 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

Nadolny A A, Turbanov I S (2025) A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1230: 37-80 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Ponomarev A V, Alekseev S K, Komarov Y E, Shmatko V Y (2021b) Spiders (Aranei) of the Terek River valley in Mozdok District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia. Caucasian Entomological Bulletin 17: 351-374 pdf

Tanasevitch A V (1990) The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: Striganova B R (ed.), Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Moscow, Akaedemia Nauk, pp. 5-114 pdf

Turbanov I S, Nadolny A A, Turbanova A A (2021) To the study of arthropods of Tavrida Cave, Crimea. Invertebrate Zoology 18: 177-185 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

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