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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta insularis  Roewer, 1953

Description
Male

Unknown.

Female

Similar to L. taramellii. Palp: femur longer than tarsus, tarsus longer than tibia, femur as long as tibia and patella together. Prosoma reddish yellow. Eyes: posteriors smaller than anteriors, 1.5 diameters from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 6 teeth, retromargin with 2 or 4 teeth. Legs: femur and tarsus without spines. Opisthosoma pale grey.

Body length female: 3.3 mm
Additional information

In caves, also outdoor, under stones.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

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

Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1969) Secondo contributo alla conoscenza dei Leptonetidae della Sardegna (Araneae). Archivio Zoologico Italiano 54: 11-31 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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 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
02-09-2014 Image insert