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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta patrizii Roewer, 1953

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003015

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Description
Male

Palp: femur longer than tarsus, tarsus as long as tibia and patella together. Prosoma reddish yellow. Eyes: posteriors smaller than anteriors, posterior eyes about 2 diameters from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 6 or 7 teeth, retromargin with 2 or 3 teeth. Opisthosoma pale grey.

Body length male: 3.6 mm
Female

Palp: femur longer than tarsus, tarsus as long as tibia and patella together. Prosoma reddish yellow. Eyes: posteriors smaller than anteriors, posterior eyes about 2 diameters from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 6 or 7 teeth, retromargin with 2 or 3 teeth. Opisthosoma pale grey.

Body length female: 3.6 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Sardinia)
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Roewer 1953)

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male Cymbium, dorsal view
(Roewer 1953)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Roewer 1953)

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male Maxilla and labium
(Roewer 1953)

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male Chelicera
(Roewer 1953)

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female Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)

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female Vulva
(Brignoli 1971d)

species

Chelicera
(Brignoli 1971d)

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.

Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Brignoli P M (1971d) Note su ragni cavernicoli italiani (Araneae). Fragmenta Entomologica 7: 121-229 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

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 pdf

Roewer C F (1953) Cavernicole arachniden aus Sardinien. Notes biospéologiques 8: 39-49 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
14-05-2013 Image insert
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