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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta taramellii Roewer, 1956

Description
Male

No description available.

Female

Palp: femur as long as tarsus, longer than tibia and patella together. Prosoma pale yellow. Eyes: posteriors 1.5 diameters from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 6 teeth, retromargin with 4 teeth. Legs: femur with spines. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 1.8 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

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

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

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

Trezzi G (1992) Una gradita scoperta. Il Grottesco, Bollettino del Gruppo Grotte Milano CAI-SEM 50: 36-38 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

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