Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Nesticus  Thorell, 1869   3 species

Nesticus birsteini Charitonov, 1947

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 1.98 mm, prosoma width: 1.93 mm.

Female

Prosomalänge: 1.65 mm, prosoma width: 1.5 mm.

Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia)
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Charitonov D E (1947) Spiders and harvestspiders from the caves of the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. Byulleten Moskovskogo Obshchestva Ispytatelei Prirody (N.S., Biol.) 52: 15-28 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

Mikhailov K G (2013) The spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Russia and adjacent countries: a non-annotated checklist. Arthropoda Selecta, Supplement 3: 1-262 pdf

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

Pichka V E (1965) On the spider fauna of the caves in the west Transcaucasia. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 44: 1190-1196 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
08-02-2019 Distribution update Detail
01-12-2013 Distribution update Detail
29-10-2013 Image insert