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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta fagei  Simon, 1914

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 tibia and patella together, and slightly longer than tarsus. Eyes slightly surrounded with black, posterior eyes more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines, and one pair of apical spines, tibia I with 2 lateral spines, other tibiae with one lateral spine, metatarsus with one lateral spine.

Body length female: 2.5 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

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

France   (no references) |||
References

Dresco E (1982) Étude des Leptoneta. Leptoneta fagei Sim. (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 118: 49-51 pdf

Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291 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

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
16-07-2015 Image insert
24-06-2014 Image insert