Leptoneta crypticola Simon, 1907
Description
Male
Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1.1 mm long.
Female
Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Palp: tarsal claw with one tooth. Eyes more or less surrounded with black, almost equal in size, posterior eyes slightly more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia at the most with 2 lateral spines and one pair of apical spines, metatarsus with one lateral spine.
Body length female: 2.5 mmAdditional information
Outdoor, under large stones in forests, in caves.
Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Fage 1913)
Bulbus
(Dresco 1987)
Tarsus of pedipalp
(Simon 1914)
Tarsus of pedipalp
(Fage 1913)
Tarsus of pedipalp, dorsal view
(Fage 1913)
Tarsus of pedipalp, dorsal view
(Fage 1913)
Tarsus of pedipalp
(Dresco 1987)
Palpal apophysis
(Dresco 1987)
Femur I
(Fage 1913)
Pedipalp
(Fage 1913)
Palpal apophysis
(Fage 1913)
Vulva
(Dresco 1987)
Vulva, variation
(Dresco 1987)
Eyes, dorsal view
(Simon 1914)
Labium
(Fage 1913)
Habitus, lateral view
(Fage 1913)
Chelicera
(Fage 1913)
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.
References
Dresco E (1987) Étude des Leptoneta: Leptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) du sud-est de la France. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 9 (A): 633-650 
Fage L (1913) Etudes sur les araignées cavernicoles. II Revision des Leptonetidae. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale (5) 10: 479-576
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Mammola S, Chiappetta N, Giachino, P M, Antić D Ž, Zapparoli Z, Isai M (2020) Exploring the homogeneity of terrestrial subterranean communities at a local spatial scale. Ecological Entomology 45: 1053-1062
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
Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018).
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2