Leptoneta corsica Fage, 1943
Description
Male
Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1.3 mm long.
Female
Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Palp: femur as long as tarsus, tarsus longer than tibia and patella together. Eyes slightly surrounded with black, posteriors smaller than anteriors, posterior eyes slightly more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur and metatarsus without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines, without apical spines.
Body length female: 2.5 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al. 2018)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1986)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1986)
Apical part of bulbus
(Dresco 1986)
Bulbus, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1986)
Tarsus of pedipalp
(Dresco 1986)
Tarsus of pedipalp
(Dresco 1986)
Appendix of palpal tarsus
(Dresco 1986)
Appendix of palpal tarsus
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva, ventral view
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva
(Dresco 1986)
Vulva
(Dresco 1986)
Distribution List
References
Dresco E (1986) Etude des Leptoneta. Leptoneta corsica Fage (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 122: 35-39 
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
Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M (2018b) A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research 56: 301-316
WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 22.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (29.05.2021) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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