Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Cataleptoneta  Denis, 1955   7 species

Cataleptoneta sengleti  (Brignoli, 1974)

Description
Male

Prosoma and sternum whitish. Eyes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 8 teeth, retromargin with 4 teeth. Legs yellowish, without spines. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length male: 1.7 mm
Female

Prosoma and sternum whitish. Eyes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 8 teeth, retromargin with 4 teeth. Legs yellowish, without spines. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 1.6 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Crete)
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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 / Crete   (no references) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1974c) Araignées de Grèce VIII. Quelques Leptonetidae de la Laconie et de l'île de Crète (Arachnida, Araneae). Annales de Spéléologie 29: 63-70 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

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