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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Aituaria  Esyunin & Efimik, 1998   3 species

Aituaria borutzkyi (Reimoser, 1930)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006556

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Prosoma, chelicera, legs, opisthosoma and spinnerets yellow.

Body length male: 4.5 mm
Female

Prosoma 1.6 mm lang. Legs: tibia I, II and IV with 2 strong bristles, one basal and one apical, tarsus IV with 9 ventral small spines, as in the genus Theridion.

Body length female: 4.8 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Ukraine (Crimea), Turkey, Georgia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fomichev et al. 2022)

species

male Pedipalp with tibia and patella, ventral view
(Nadolny & Turbanov 2025)

species

male Bulbus, anterior view
(Fomichev et al. 2022)

species

male Bulbus, ventro-apical view
(Fomichev et al. 2022)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Nadolny & Kovblyuk 2007)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Nadolny & Turbanov 2025)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Nadolny & Turbanov 2025)

Distribution List
Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2025a) ||| Ukraine   (Nadolny & Kovblyuk, 2007) |||
References

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2025a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2025 [last updated 01 December 2025], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Fomichev A A, Ballarin F, Marusik Y M (2022) A new genus of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 31: 99-110 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, Kovblyuk M M (2007) Carpathonesticus borutzkyi, the first record of Nesticidae from the Crimea (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 15: 291-294 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.

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
28-04-2025 Image insert
31-03-2022 Image insert
02-07-2020 Distribution update Detail