Amaurobius erberi (Keyserling, 1863)

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.14976087

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scientific name

Amaurobius erberi (Keyserling, 1863)
status

 

Amaurobius erberi (Keyserling, 1863) View in CoL

Material examined.

1 ♂ ( TNU 10237/2 ), Crimea, Bakhchisarai Distr., nr Khodzha-Sala Vil., steep southern slope of Baba-Dagh Plateau (= Mangup-Kale Gorodishche), Mangupskaya I (= MK- 1) Cave , 3. V. 2018, I. S. Turbanov leg.

Distribution.

West Palearctic nemoral-subtropical: from the Canaries to Azerbaijan and from Central Europe to Algeria ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A View Figure 17 – yellow circle). Mangupskaya I Cave on steep southern slope of Baba-Dagh Plateau (present data).

Ecology.

In Crimea, Amaurobius erberi is widespread and found in all landscape zones ( Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015). This species has not been previously recorded from caves and it is hardly a permanent cave dweller, so it can be classified as a trogloxene.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Arachnida

Order

Araneae

Family

Amaurobiidae

Genus

Amaurobius