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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Protoleptoneta  Deltshev, 1972   4 species

Protoleptoneta baccettii (Brignoli, 1979)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002973

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Description
Male

Palp: without strong spines on tubercles. Prosoma with a longitudinal brown streak, 0.84 mm long. Eyes absent.

Body length male: 1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma orange-yellow, 0.95 mm long. Eyes absent. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length female: 2.1 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

male Apical part of bulbus, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

male Chelicera, posterior view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

male Cheliceral teeth, posterior view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Gasparo 2005c)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

species

female Chelicera
(Brignoli 1979h)

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.

Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1979h) Ragni d'Italia XXXI. Specie cavernicole nuove o interessanti (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 5(10): 1-48 pdf

Gasparo F (2005c) Descrizione del maschio e nuova attribuzione generica di Leptoneta baccettii (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 137: 159-166 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 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
03-09-2013 Image insert
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail