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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Typhlonesticus  Kulczyński, 1914   8 species

Typhlonesticus obcaecatus  (Simon, 1907)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006702

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.4 mm long. Characters as in female.

Body length male: 3.7 mm
Female

Prosoma and appendages pale yellowish. Prosoma 1.4 mm long. Eyes very small, AME absent. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin. Opisthosoma uniform greyish.

Body length female: 5-6 mm
Additional information

In caves. Altitude 1200 m.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Ribera 1979)

species

male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Ribera 1979)

species

male Prosoma
(Ribera 1979)

species

female Pedipalp
(Ribera 1979)

species

female Epigyne
(Ribera 1979)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Ribera 1979)

species

female Prosoma
(Ribera 1979)

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.

Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Ribera C (1979) Distribution des Nesticidae cavernicoles de la Péninsule Ibérique. Revue Arachnologique 2: 291-300 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