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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Carpathonesticus  Lehtinen & Saaristo, 1980   25 species

Carpathonesticus spelaeus  (Szombathy, 1917)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.4 mm long.

Female

Prosoma pale yellowish, 2.4 mm long. Prosoma and opisthosoma with very faint pattern. Sternum and appendages pale reddish yellow. Eyes ringed with light brownish.

Additional information

In caves, also outdoors, under calcareous blocks.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Romania
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Romania   (no references) |||
References

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, 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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
08-07-2014 Image insert