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Nesticidae  Simon, 1894 / Domitius  Ribera, 2018   8 species

Domitius speluncarum  (Pavesi, 1873)

Description
Male

Characters as in female.

Body length male: 6.4 mm
Female

Close to N. eremita. Prosoma 1.6-1.9 mm long. Prosoma, sternum and legs uniformly coloured. Eyes very small, AME absent.

Body length female: 8 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Restricted to northern Italy (Pavlek & Ribera 2017)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Italy
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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.

Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Montenegro  Removed (Naumova et al., 2019a) |||
References

Ballarin F (2020) Domitius culsu sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), a new troglobiont spider from Italy with notes on Italian nesticids of the genus Domitius Ribera, 2018. Journal of Cave and Karst Studies 82: 82-94 pdf

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Kulczyński W (1915) Fragmenta arachnologica, XVIII. Bulletin International de l'Academie des Sciences de Cracovie 1915: 897-942 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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pavlek M, Ribera C (2017) Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species. European Journal of Taxonomy 262: 1-27 pdf

Ribera C (2018) A new genus of nesticid spiders from western European Peninsulas (Araneae, Nesticidae). Zootaxa 4407: 229-240 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
03-05-2024 Distribution update Detail
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28-06-2020 Image insert
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23-01-2017 Datasheet update Detail
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