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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta crypticola  Simon, 1907

Description
Male

Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1.1 mm long.

Female

Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Palp: tarsal claw with one tooth. Eyes more or less surrounded with black, almost equal in size, posterior eyes slightly more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia at the most with 2 lateral spines and one pair of apical spines, metatarsus with one lateral spine.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

Outdoor, under large stones in forests, in caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Italy: Omitted by Pantini & Isaia (2019)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Mammola et al., 2020) |||
References

Dresco E (1987) Étude des Leptoneta: Leptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) du sud-est de la France. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 9 (A): 633-650 pdf

Fage L (1913) Etudes sur les araignées cavernicoles. II Revision des Leptonetidae. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale (5) 10: 479-576 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Mammola S, Chiappetta N, Giachino, P M, Antić D Ž, Zapparoli Z, Isai M (2020) Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale. Ecological Entomology 45: 1053-1062 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Ballarin F, Tolve M, Čupić I, Hesselberg T, Lunghi E, Mouron S, Graco-Roza C, Cardoso P (2022) A trait database and updated checklist for European subterranean spiders. Scientific Data 9(236): 1-13 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
14-05-2020 Distribution insert Detail
16-07-2015 Image insert
09-07-2015 Image insert
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail