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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta patrizii Roewer, 1953

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
Distribution List
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
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