Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta convexa  Simon, 1872

Description
Male

Palp: tarsus with one apophysis bearing a strong spine, and with a median appendix tape-shaped.

Body length male: 3.5 mm
Female

Palp: femur as long as tarsus, and as long as tibia and patella together, tarsal claw with 3 teeth. Prosoma, sternum and legs pale reddish brown. Eyes: well developed, anteriors surrounded with black, AME slightly larger than ALE, posterior eyes slightly smaller than AME, 2 diameters from ALE. Legs: all segments, except tarsus, with spines. Opisthosoma white.

Body length female: 3-4 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Presence in Italy doubtful (P. Pantini, pers. comm.), therefore removed
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France
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"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.

France   (no references) |||
References

Dresco E (1990) Étude des Leptoneta. A propos de Leptoneta convexa Sim. (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 125: 99-103 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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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
11-09-2015 Image insert
09-04-2013 Distribution update Detail