Aituaria pontica (Spassky, 1932)
Description
Male
Colouration yellowish. Opisthosoma with dark lateral markings.
Body length male: 4.0 mmFemale
Prosoma light yellow, cephalic part with long setae and 3 blackish lines on the sides. Prosoma length: 1.36-2.5 mm. Chelicerae: promargin with 3 teeth. Sternum yellow, with black markings. Legs yellow, ventral side partly black. Opisthosoma: anterior part of dorsum ash-grey, posterior part weakly pointed.
Additional information
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Pedipalp
(Mcheidze 1979)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Fomichev et al. 2022)
Embolus
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Paracymbium
(Mcheidze 1979)
Paracymbium
(Mcheidze 1979)
Habitus, lateral view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Habitus
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Epigyne, dorsal view
(Esyunin & Efimik 1998)
Epigyne/vulva
(Mcheidze 1979)
Epigyne, caudal view
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Epigyne
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Vulva
(Marusik et al. 2017b)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Zamani & Marusik 2021a)
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.
References
Esyunin S L (2017) New data on Aituaria pontica (Spassky, 1932) (Aranei: Nesticidae). Arthropoda Selecta 26: 241-243 
Esyunin S L, Efimik V E (1998) Remarks on the Ural spider fauna, 8. New and unidentified species from steppe landscapes of the south Urals (Arachnida: Aranei). Arthropoda Selecta 7: 145-152
Fomichev A A, Ballarin F, Marusik Y M (2022) A new genus of the family Nesticidae (Arachnida: Aranei) from the Caucasus. Arthropoda Selecta 31: 99-110
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
Marusik Y M, Fedoriak M M, Koponen S, Prokopenko E V, Voloshyn V L (2017b) Taxonomic notes on two species of Nesticidae (Arachnida: Araneae) in the Ukraine, with the first description of the male of Carpathonesticus eriashvilii. Arachnology 17: 302-308
Mcheidze T S (1979) New species of spiders of the genus Dysdera Latr. (Dysderidae) occurring in Georgia. Soobshcheniia Akademii Nauk Gruzinskoi SSR 94: 465-468
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Zamani A, Marusik Y M (2021a) New taxa of six families of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Iran. Zoology in the Middle East 67: 81-91