Metellina segmentata (Clerck, 1757)

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 – 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.