Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Kryptonesticus  Pavlek & Ribera, 2017   9 species

Kryptonesticus henderickxi  (Bosselaers, 1998)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 2.1 mm
Female

Prosoma whitish, cephalic part with some dark grey hairs. Prosoma 1.2 mm long. Sternum white, covered with sparse, dark grey hairs. Eyes absent. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin, 3 comb-shaped setae on a bulge near base of fang. Opisthosoma pale yellowish grey, covered with sparse, greyish hairs.

Body length female: 3 mm
Additional information

In limestone cave.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
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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.

Greece / Crete   (no references) |||
References

Bosselaers J (1998) Nesticus henderickxi (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new blind troglobitic spider from Crete. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 9-14 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