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

Carpathonesticus ionescui  (Dumitrescu, 1979)

Description
Male

Prosoma 2.2 mm long. Characters as in female, but pattern on prosoma and opisthosoma more distinct.

Female

Prosoma and appendages light reddish yellow. Prosoma 1.9 mm long. Prosoma and opisthosoma with very faint pattern, sometimes pattern absent. Eyes well developed, ringed with reddish brown, PME 1.2 diameters apart. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin, and behind with a row of serrated bristles.

Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Romania
Egg sacs in July.
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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

Dumitrescu M (1979) La monographie des représentants du genre Nesticus des grottes de Roumania. I note. Travaux de l’Institut de Spéologie “Émile Racovitza” 18: 53-84 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
29-05-2015 Image insert