Kryptonesticus

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Kryptonesticus
Nesticus eremita 1.jpg
K. eremita
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Nesticidae
Genus: Kryptonesticus
Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1]
Type species

Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1]
Species

Eight, see text for list.

Kryptonesticus is a genus of European scaffold web spiders first described by Pavlek & Ribera in 2017. All but the type species were transferred from Nesticus. With the exception of K. eremita, individual species have very restricted ranges.[2]

Species[]

Kryptonesticus comprises the following species, per the World Spider Catalog:[3]

  • (Kulczyński, 1914) — Bosnia-Hercegovina
  • (Deltshev, 1977) — Bulgaria
  • (Deltshev, 1979) — Crete
  • Pavlek & Ribera, 2017 — Croatia
  • (López-Pancorbo, Kunt & Ribera, 2013) — Turkey
  • (Simon, 1879) — Europe; introduced in New Zealand
  • (Kratochvíl, 1933) — Italy, Montenegro
  • (Bosselaers, 1998) — Crete

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Gen. Kryptonesticus". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  2. ^ Pavlek, Martina; Ribera, Carles (20 January 2017). "Kryptonesticus deelemanae gen. et sp. nov. (Araneae, Nesticidae), with notes on the Mediterranean cave species". European Journal of Taxonomy (262). doi:10.5852/ejt.2017.262. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
  3. ^ "Species list for Kryptonesticus". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2 February 2017.


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