Cave Cobweb Spiders

Figures 2–5.Typhlonesticus gocmeni sp. n. male palp. 2 ventral view 3 dorsal view 4 prolateral view 5 retrolateral view. Abbreviations: T = tegulum, MA = median apophysis, p1 = process 1 of TTA, p2 = process 2 of TTA, P = paracymbium, vp = ventral process of paracymbium, dp = dorsal process of paracymbium. Scale bars 0.1 mm.

Figure 1.Single most parsimonious tree (L = 3454, CI = 0.447, RI = 0.769) found by MP analysis of the combined data set(cox1=472 bp, rrnL=456 bp and 22 gap characters) of Iberian Nesticus species (except Nesticus murgis), Nesticus ionescui from Romania and Nesticus eremita from Croatia. Numbers on nodes represent bootstrap support values. The outgroup Nesticus X130 is from China. Numbers on terminals refers to different localities (see material examined)

Figures 6–9.Typhlonesticus gocmeni sp. n. male palp. 6 ventral view 7 dorsal view 8 retrolateral view 9 prolateral view. Abbreviations: T = tegulum, MA = median apophysis, p1 = process 1 of TTA, p2 = process 2 of TTA, vp = ventral process of paracymbium, dp = dorsal process of paracymbium. Scale bars 0.5 mm.

Figures 2–7.Nesticus baeticus sp. n.: 2 female (1525) frontal view 3–6 male palp (Holotype). 3 retrolateral view 4 prolateral view 5 ventral view 6 frontal view 7 dorsal view. Abbreviations: E embolus MA median apophysis P paracymbium ST subtegulum T tegulum TTA theridioid tegular apophysis. Scale bar in μm.

Figures 10–13.Typhlonesticus gocmeni sp. n. male palp. 10 nearly retrolateral view 11 ditto 12 nearly ventral view 13 ventral view. Abbreviations: E = embolus, T = tegulum, St = subtegulum, MA = median apophysis, p1 = process 1 of TTA, p2 = process 2 of TTA, P = paracymbium, vp = ventral process of paracymbium, dp = dorsal process of paracymbium.

Figures 8–13.Nesticus baeticus sp. n., male (holotype). 8–10 paracymbium 8 lateral view 9 frontal view 10 ventral view 11 median apophysis and theridioid tegular apophysis, ventral view 12 ditto, retrolateral view 13 apical protuberance of TTA p2. Abbreviations: di distal process dm dorsomedial apophysis do dorsal process E embolus P paracymbium pd paradistal apophysis MA median apophysis TTA theridioid tegular apophysis TTA p1 process 1 of TTA TTA p2 process 2 of TTA v ventral process. Sacale bar in μm.

Figures 14–17.Typhlonesticus gocmeni sp. n. epigyne and vulva. 14 epigyne ventral view 15 vulva ventral view, 16 ditto 17 vulva dorsal view. Abbreviations: co = copulatory orifice, id = insemination duct, fd = fertilization duct, S = spermatheca. Scale bars 14–15 0.25 mm 16–17 0.1 mm.

Figures 14–17.Nesticus baeticus sp. n., female. 14 epigynum (1530) ventral view 15 ditto, caudal view 16 epigynum (1619) ventral view 17 vulva ventral view. Abbreviations: CO copulatory orifice ID + FD insemination duct + fertilization duct MS median septum S spermathecae VPL vulval pocket lateral VPM vulval pocket medial. Scale bar in μm.

Figures 18–21.Typhlonesticus gocmeni sp. n. 18–19 male, prosoma 18 dorsal view 19 frontal view 20 male in the web 21 female.

Figure 1.ML tree inferred using the concatenated dataset of cox1, rrnL mtDNA and H3 nuDNA gene fragments. Numbers next to nodes correspond to bootstrap support values. The tree was rooted using Canarionesticus quadridentatus from the Canary Islands.