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Subterranean biodiversity of North America and around the globe
AnimaliaArthropodaChelicerataArachnidaAraneaeNesticidaeNesticus

Nesticus paynei Gertsch, 1984

Taxonomy

Kingdom Animalia
Phylum Arthropoda
Subphylum Chelicerata
Class Arachnida
Order Araneae
Family Nesticidae
Genus Nesticus
Species Nesticus paynei Gertsch, 1984

Description

Diagnostic characters

Ecological class
Troglobiont
Realm
Terrestrial
Troglomorphy
Troglomorphic

Distribution

Type locality

Reeders Cave, Anderson Co. TN

Range

Known from two states in the Appalachians karst region.

Continent

North America

Country

United States

States and provinces

Tennessee, Virginia

Counties

County-level records have not been compiled for this taxon. Distribution is recorded at state and karst-region level.

Karst regions

Appalachians

Genetics

Molecular resources

MarkerMoleculeSequences LengthExemplar
COI mitochondrial 17 397-1071 bp OQ095027.1
16S mitochondrial 7 563-584 bp U40523.1
28S nuclear 2 417-417 bp AF003807.1
tRNA mitochondrial 1 387-387 bp U40519.1

27 sequences, retrieved 23 August 2026. Counts change as sequences are deposited. Search GenBank.

Download all 27 sequence records (CSV) Accession, marker, molecule type, length, GenBank definition and a direct link.

Specimens

Collections holding material

InstitutionLots
San Diego State University 17
National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution 1

18 cataloged lots in 2 collections. Compiled from GBIF and not an exhaustive census: many collections are not yet digitised, and holdings are added continually. Search GBIF for specimen records.

Download all 18 specimen records (CSV) Institution, catalog number, type status and preparation. No coordinates.

Conservation and management

NatureServe

G3G4 Vulnerable to Apparently Secure

G1G2G3▲G4▲G5

Global rank last reviewed 21 August 2002.

Subnational ranks

Tennessee
S3 Vulnerable
Virginia
S1 Critically Imperiled

State and federal status

Not listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act

Other resources

Catalogue of Life
478YM
GBIF
2152909
ITIS
862799
iNaturalist
225927
NCBI Taxonomy
44408

How to cite this account

Nesticus paynei Gertsch, 1984. Cave Biology Data Portal, account SP-0151. https://cavebiology.org/species/nesticus-paynei/ (accessed 3 September 2026).

Data sources and funding are listed in the Acknowledgments.

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