Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890)

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
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DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14976103
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scientific name	Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890)
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? Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890) View in CoL

? Lepthyphantes zimmermanni Bertkau, 1890 : Evtushenko 2004: 67–68; Zagorodniuk and Vargovitsh 2004: 207.

? Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (Bertkau, 1890) View in CoL : Mikhailov 2013: 93; Kovblyuk 2014: 44; Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015: 34.

Distribution.

West Palearctic polyzonal: from Portugal to the European part of Russia and from Scandinavia to Turkey ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 B View Figure 17 – pink circle). Troizkogo (= Kharkovskaya, ZUG) Cave in E part of Ai-Petri Yaila and Tisovaya Cave in central part of Karabi Yaila ( Evtushenko 2004).

Ecology.

A troglophile ( Mammola et al. 2018). Mentioned from Crimea as a probable trogloxene ( Evtushenko 2004).

Remarks.

According to some publications ( Mikhailov 2013; Kovblyuk 2014; Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015), the record of T. zimmermanni from Crimea is questionable and not supported by the collected material.

Figure 17. Distributions of cave-dwelling spiders in Crimea (including data from references and this work): A Tegenaria lapicidinarum (purple circle), T. parietina (blue circle), T. taurica (orange circle), Amaurobius erberi (yellow circle), Alopecosa farinosa (grey circle), Pholcus phalangioides (pink circle), Meta bourneti (red circle), Metellina segmentata (pale blue circle), M. merianae (green circle), Steatoda triangulosa (white circle) B Bisetifer gruzin (blue circle), B. tactus sp. nov. (purple circle), Caviphantes dobrogicus (green circle), Lepthyphantes leprosus (red circle), Megalepthyphantes nebulosus (pale blue circle), M. pseudocollinus (white circle), Palliduphantes khobarum (orange circle), ? Tenuiphantes zimmermanni (pink circle), Troglohyphantes exspectatus sp. nov. (yellow circle), Aituaria pontica (grey circle), A. borutzkyi (black circle). The numbering of the caves is common for both maps: 1 – in unnamed cave near the city of Bakhchisarai; 2 – Mangupskaya I (= MK- 1) Cave; 3 – abandoned aqueduct carved into an unnamed cave-spring in area of the Maksimova Datsha; 4 – Asketi I Cave; 5 – Kay-Kobasy Cave; 6 – Izumrudnaya Сave; 7 – Gekkonovaya Cave; 8 – Gnomov Cave; 9 – Tshernoretshenskaya Cave; 10 – Azis-Koba (= Kara-Koba) Cave; 11 – Mamut-Tshokrak Cave; 12 – Baidar-Tshokrak Cave; 13 – unnamed cave on northeastern slope of Mt. Kilse-Burun; 14 – Skelskaya Cave; 15 – Rodnikovskaya Cave; 16 – Koryta (= Kuznetsova) Cave; 17 – Zemlyanitshnaya Cave; 18 – Kristalnaya (= Maksimovitcha) Cave; 19 – Druzhba Cave; 20 – unnamed cave (= ? Malaya Cave) in Nizhnie Limeny (now Goluboi Zaliv); 21 – Daniltsha-Koba Cave; 22 – Ayu-Teshik Cave; 23 – Villyaburunskaya Cave; 24 – Troizkogo (= Kharkovskaya, ZUG) Сave; 25 – Avantyura Cave; 26 – Kaply-Kayanskaya (= Khaplu-Khoba) Cave; 27 – Ayu-Koba Cave; 28 – grotto in Massandra; 29 – Binbash-Koba Cave; 30 – Paskhalnaya Cave; 31 – Alushtinskaya Cave; 32 – Kizil-Koba (= Krasnaya) Cave; 33 – Sliyanie Cave; 34 – Vostotshny Potok Cave; 35 – Partizanskaya Cave; 36 – grotto on Mt. Yuznaya Demerdzhi; 37 – Tisovaya Cave; 38 – Karani-Koba Cave; 39 – Tuakskaya (= Ful-Koba) Cave; 40 – Tavrida Cave.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Arachnida
Order	Araneae
Family	Linyphiidae
Genus	Tenuiphantes