Tegenaria parietina (Fourcroy, 1785)

Nadolny, Anton A. & Turbanov, Ilya S., 2025, A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species, ZooKeys 1230, pp. 37-80 : 37-80

publication ID

https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1230.137029

publication LSID

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976085

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scientific name

Tegenaria parietina (Fourcroy, 1785)
status

 

Tegenaria parietina (Fourcroy, 1785) View in CoL

Material examined.

1 ♀ ( TNU 10190/1 ), Crimea, nr Sevastopol, Khomutovaya Gorge, nr Maksimovа Datsha , abandoned aqueduct carved into an unnamed cave-spring, 23. V. 2015, A. A. Nadolny leg.

Distribution.

Cosmopolite ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A View Figure 17 – blue circle). Abandoned aqueduct carved into an unnamed cave-spring nr Maksimova Datsha, Sevastopol (present data).

Ecology.

A troglophile and synanthropic species ( Mammola et al. 2018; Nentwig et al. 2024). In Crimea, T. parietina inhabits mountainous and foothill areas ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015), and has not been previously recorded from the Crimean caves. However, during our surveys of subterranean the Crimean biotopes, we have once found this species in the abandoned aqueduct of Maksimova Datsha – the site of intensive agricultural and other economic activities in the second half of the 19 th and early 20 th centuries ( Chikin 2005). For this reason, we believe that T. parietina is not a permanent member of the Crimean cave fauna. This species is likely to be a facultative synanthrope that can inhabit underground biotopes as a subtroglophile.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Agelenidae

Genus

Tegenaria