Kryptonesticus

Kryptonesticus is a genus of European scaffold web spiders first described by Pavlek & Ribera in 2017, based around the newly described type species Kryptonesticus deelemanae and seven species transferred from genus Nesticus.^[2] In 2018, an additional species, K. georgescuae, was described from two female specimens from Romania.^[3]

Kryptonesticus
K. eremita
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Araneomorphae
Family:	Nesticidae
Genus:	Kryptonesticus Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1]
Type species
Kryptonesticus deelemanae Pavlek & Ribera, 2017[1]
Species
Nine, see text for list.

With the exception of K. eremita, individual species have very restricted ranges.^[2]

Species

Kryptonesticus comprises the following species, per the World Spider Catalog:^[4]

• Kryptonesticus arenstorffi (Kulczyński, 1914) — Bosnia-Hercegovina
• Kryptonesticus beroni (Deltshev, 1977) — Bulgaria
• Kryptonesticus beshkovi (Deltshev, 1979) — Crete
• Kryptonesticus deelemanae Pavlek & Ribera, 2017 — Croatia
• Kryptonesticus dimensis (López-Pancorbo, Kunt & Ribera, 2013) — Turkey
• Kryptonesticus eremita (Simon, 1879) — Europe; introduced in New Zealand
• Kryptonesticus fagei (Kratochvíl, 1933) — Italy, Montenegro
• Kryptonesticus georgescuae Nae et. al, 2018 — Romania
• Kryptonesticus henderickxi (Bosselaers, 1998) — Crete