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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Carpathonesticus  Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980   20 species

Carpathonesticus zaitzevi  (Charitonov, 1939)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006573

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Description
Male

Colouration as in females, except opisthosomal markings more pronounced. Prosoma length: 1.8-2.3 mm.

Female

Prosoma orange-yellow, cephalic part shining. Prosoma length: 1.9-2.55 mm. Sternum orange-yellow, sparsely covered with short and long setae. Opisthosoma covered with grey setae, dorsum with 2 triangular marks, sometimes with 5 pairs of marks, or marks completely absent.

Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Georgia
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Mcheidze 1997)

species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Charitonov 1947)

References

Charitonov D E (1947) Spiders and harvestspiders from the caves of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Byull Mosk Obshch Ispyt Prir (N.S., Biol.) 52: 15-28

Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316 pdf

Mcheidze T S (1997) Spiders of Georgia: Systematics, Ecology, Zoogeographic Review. Tbilisi Univ, 390 pp

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.01.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Updates
29-12-2015 Image insert
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