Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptonetela  Kratochvíl, 1978   12 species

Leptonetela kanellisi  (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1971)

Description
Male

Palp: tibia with a proximal, very strong and long spine, followed by 4 strong spines. Prosoma 0.9 mm long.

Body length male: 2.4 mm
Female

Prosoma pale yellow, 1.3 mm long. Eyes absent, in some specimens the anterior medians are discernible as small pale pustules. Chelicerae : promargin with 9 teeth, retromargin with 5 small teeth. Legs : metatarsus with one or 2 dorsal spines , metatarsus II and metatarsus III apically with a transverse row of 5 or 6 long hairs. Opisthosoma whitish grey.

Body length female: 2.9 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece
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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.

Greece   (no references) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1976b) Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 83: 539-578 pdf

Deeleman-Reinhold C L (1971a) A new species of Sulcia Kratochvil (Araneida, Leptonetidae) from Greece, and a discussion of some Japanese cavernicolous Leptonetidae. Zoologische Mededelingen 45: 289-301 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, 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

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
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