Tegenaria lapicidinarum Spassky, 1934

Fig. 1 A

Tegenaria lapicidinarum Spassky, 1934: Evtushenko 2004: 66–68; Zagorodniuk and Vargovitsh 2004: 207; Kovblyuk 2014: 44; Turbanov et al. 2016 b: 1283.

Material examined.

• 1 ♀ (TNU 10189), Crimea, Simferopol Distr., central part of Tshatyr-Dagh Yaila, nr Vyalovsky Forest, Alushtinskaya Cave, 11. II. 2015, I. S. Turbanov leg. • 3 ♀♀ (TNU 10187), Crimea, Belogorsk Distr., northeastern part of Karabi Yaila, Karani-Koba Cave, 29. I. 2014, I. S. Turbanov leg.

Distribution.

East European nemoral: Ukraine and the south part of European Russia. The Crimea represents the southernmost limit of the species range (Kovblyuk 2004 b; Kovblyuk and Kastrygina 2015; Nentwig et al. 2024).

Records from the Crimean caves.

Map (Fig. 17 A – purple circle). Unnamed cave near the city of Bakhchisarai, Alushtinskaya Сave in Tshatyr-Dagh Yaila, and Karani-Koba Cave in Karabi Yaila (Evtushenko 2004; present data).

Ecology.

A troglophile (Evtushenko 2004; Zagorodniuk and Vargovitsh 2004). In Crimea, T. lapicidinarum is a common species, occurring in all landscape zones from the seashore to yaila (Kovblyuk 2004 b). In addition to the Crimean subterranean biotopes, this species has also been recorded from catacombs of Odessa, Ukraine (Deli et al. 2017). This species is common in terrestrial habitats, but is rarely found in caves, and so is here classified as a subtroglophile.