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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Domitius  Ribera, 2018   8 species

Domitius speluncarum (Pavesi, 1873)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006721

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Description
Male

Characters as in female.

Body length male: 6.4 mm
Female

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 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Restricted to northern Italy (Pavlek & Ribera, 2017)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ribera 2018)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ribera 2018)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Epigyne
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Epigyne, ventral view
(Kulczyński 1915)

species

female Epigyne
(Ballarin 2020)

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female Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Ballarin 2020)

species

Chelicera, ventral view
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

Chelicera, frontal view
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

Cheliceral seta
(Brignoli 1971d)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Montenegro  Removed (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Slovenia  Removed (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015; Pavlek & Ribera, 2017) |||
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 (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 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

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kulczyński W (1915) Fragmenta arachnologica, XVIII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1915: 897-942 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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

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 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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