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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta conimbricensis  Machado & Ribera, 1986

Description
Male

Palp: appendix of tarsus wide, cylindrical, with a small curved tip.

Body length male: 1.8 mm
Female

Prosoma, sternum and appendages pale yellow. Eyes: well developed, posterior eyes 1.5 to 2 diameters from ALE. Legs: femur and metatarsus without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length female: 2 mm
Additional information

In caves, also outdoor, under large stones covered with moss.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

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

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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

Machado A de B, Ribera C (1986) Araneidos cavernicolas de Portugal: Familia Leptonetidae (Araneae). Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia, Barcelona 1: 355-366 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
17-12-2015 Image insert