Kryptonesticus
Genus of spiders
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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]
| Kryptonesticus | |
|---|---|
| |
| K. eremita | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Nesticidae |
| Genus: | Kryptonesticus Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1] |
| Type species | |
| Kryptonesticus deelemanae Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1] | |
| Species | |
|
Nine, see text for list. | |
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
