Kryptonesticus is a genus of European scaffold web spiders first described by Pavlek & Ribera in 2017, based around the newly described type species Kryptonesticus deelemanae and seven species transferred from genus Nesticus.[2] In 2018, an additional species, K. georgescuae, was described from two female specimens from Romania.[3]
With the exception of K. eremita, individual species have very restricted ranges.[2]
Species
Kryptonesticus comprises the following species, per the World Spider Catalog:[4]
- Kryptonesticus arenstorffi (Kulczyński, 1914) — Bosnia-Hercegovina
- Kryptonesticus beroni (Deltshev, 1977) — Bulgaria
- Kryptonesticus beshkovi (Deltshev, 1979) — Crete
- Kryptonesticus deelemanae Pavlek & Ribera, 2017 — Croatia
- Kryptonesticus dimensis (López-Pancorbo, Kunt & Ribera, 2013) — Turkey
- Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1879) — Europe; introduced in New Zealand
- Kryptonesticus fagei (Kratochvíl, 1933) — Italy, Montenegro
- Kryptonesticus georgescuae Nae et. al, 2018 — Romania
- Kryptonesticus henderickxi (Bosselaers, 1998) — Crete
References
- ^ a b "Gen. Kryptonesticus". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ a b 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. hdl:2445/108050. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
- ^ Nae, Augustin; Sarbu, Serban M.; Weiss, Ingmar (2018). "Kryptonesticus georgescuae spec. nov. from Movile Cave, Romania (Araneae: Nesticidae)". Arachnologische Mitteilungen. 55 (1): 22–24. doi:10.30963/aramit5503. Retrieved 12 January 2023.
- ^ "Species list for Kryptonesticus". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2 February 2017.
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