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Genus: Caviphantes Oi, 1960 | Family: Linyphiidae Blackwall, 1859

Caviphantes dobrogicus (Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:009702

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Described:

Distribution: Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, Russia (Europe), Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan

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Type Repository Provide information

Holotype: Institute of Speleology Emil Racovitza, Bucharest (ISERB), Romania f - (Růžička et al., 2005)
Paratype: Institute of Speleology Emil Racovitza, Bucharest (ISERB), Romania mm ff jj - (Růžička et al., 2005)
Allotype: Institute of Speleology Emil Racovitza, Bucharest (ISERB), Romania m - (Růžička et al., 2005)

Taxonomic References

Lessertiella dobrogica Dumitrescu & Miller, 1962: 166, f. 1-9 (Dmf) Original description

Caviphantes dobrogica Wunderlich, 1979b: 86, f. 10 (m)

Caviphantes dobrogicus Brignoli, 1983c: 329

Caviphantes dobrogica Tanasevitch, 1990: 103, f. 22.15, 24.34 (mf)

Caviphantes dobrogicus Turbanov, Nadolny & Turbanova, 2021: 180, f. 2A-B, 3A-C (f)

Caviphantes dobrogicus Nadolny & Turbanov, 2025: 50, f. 1C, 10A-D (f)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa

Dumitrescu, M. & Miller, F. (1962). Lessertiella dobrogica n gen. n. sp. araignée endémique de la grotte "Peștera Liliecilor dela Gura Dobrogei" (Aranea). Časopis Československé Společnosti Entomologické 59: 165-173. -- Show included taxa

Nadolny, A. A. & Turbanov, I. S. (2025). A review of cave spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) of the Crimean Mountains, with descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys 1230: 37-80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1230.137029 -- Show included taxa

Tanasevitch, A. V. (1990). The spider family Linyphiidae in the fauna of the Caucasus (Arachnida, Aranei). In: B. R. Striganova (ed.) Fauna nazemnykh bespozvonochnykh Kavkaza. Akademia Nauk, Moscow, pp. 5-114. -- Show included taxa

Turbanov, I. S., Nadolny, A. A. & Turbanova, A. A. (2021). To the study of arthropods of Tavrida Cave, Crimea. Invertebrate Zoology 18(2): 177-185. doi: 10.15298/invertzool.18.2.08 -- Show included taxa

Wunderlich, J. (1979b). Linyphiidae aus Nepal, III. Die Gattungen Caviphantes Oi 1960 und Lessertiella Dumitrescu & Miller 1962 (Arachnida: Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 60: 85-89. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value
2025-03-07	New taxonomic reference entry	Nadolny & Turbanov, 2025
2024-10-31	Species distribution update	Esyunin & Kabdrakhimov, 2024	Old value
2021-07-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Turbanov, Nadolny & Turbanova, 2021