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 2026): 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   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) |||
References

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

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

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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 (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
14-05-2013 Image insert