Protoleptoneta baccettii (Brignoli, 1979)
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 mmFemale
Prosoma orange-yellow, 0.95 mm long. Eyes absent. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma whitish.
Body length female: 2.1 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Apical part of bulbus, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Chelicera, posterior view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Cheliceral teeth, posterior view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Vulva, ventral view
(Gasparo 2005c)
Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)
Chelicera
(Brignoli 1979h)
Distribution List
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 
Gasparo F (2005c) Descrizione del maschio e nuova attribuzione generica di Leptoneta baccettii (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 137: 159-166
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
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 03-09-2013 | Image insert | |
| 09-04-2013 | Distribution update | Detail |