Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757)

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.14976116

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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/CEEF2C79-1E1C-50B0-BC5E-0E1A35B6B64E

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scientific name

Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757)
status

 

Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757) View in CoL

Material examined.

1 ♀ ( TNU 10181/2 ), Crimea, nr Sevastopol, the western part of Ai-Petri Yaila, the northeastern slope of Kilse-Burun Mt. , unnamed cave, 14. IV. 2014; I. S. Turbanov leg. 1 ♀ ( TNU 10194 ), Crimea, Bakhchisarai Distr., the central part of Ai-Petri Yaila, Vorontsovsky Forest, Rutsheinaya Cave , 8–9. II. 2014, I. S. Turbanov leg. 1 ♂ ( TNU 10178 ), Crimea, Simferopol Distr., nr Perevalnoye Vil., the western slope of Dolgorukovskaya Yaila, Kizil-Koba (= Krasnaya) Cave , 8–9. XI. 2014, A. A. Nadolny leg.

Distribution.

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

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A View Figure 17 – pale blue circle). Unnamed cave on the northeastern slope of Kilse-Burun Mt., Rutsheinaya Cave on Ai-Petri Yaila and Kizil-Koba Cave on the western slope of Dolgorukovskaya Yaila (present data).

Ecology.

In Crimea, M. segmentata is common in the mountainous forest part of the Peninsula ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015). There is an indication of this species as a trogloxene in Tshudesnitsa Cave in Perm Oblast of Russia ( Pankov et al. 2009). In the Crimean caves, M. segmentata can be classified as a trogloxene.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Tetragnathidae

Genus

Metellina