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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Paraleptoneta  Fage, 1913   2 species

Paraleptoneta spinimana  (Simon, 1885)

Description
Male

Palp: tibia with one basal spine and one or 2 apical strong spines. Sternum much longer than wide. Chelicerae with a basal spine.

Body length male: 1.7 mm
Female

Palp: femur with 5 prolateral spines, tarsal claw with 2 small teeth. Prosoma and sternum pale reddish brown. Eyes: posteriors 1.5 diameters from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 equal, contiguous teeth, retromargin with 3 small teeth. Legs pale reddish brown, without spines, except patella. Opisthosoma white.

Body length female: 1.5-2.7 mm
Additional information

Usually in caves, occasionally under large stones.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Algeria, France, Italy
Phenology
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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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Esnault, 2020) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Brignoli P M (1967b) Considerazioni sul genere Paraleptoneta e descrizione di una nuova specie italiana (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Fragmenta Entomologica 4: 157-169 pdf

Brignoli P M (1970a) Considerazioni biogeografiche sulla famiglia Leptonetidae (Araneae). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 41(Suppl. 1): 189-195 pdf

Brignoli P M (1979h) Ragni d'Italia XXXI. Specie cavernicole nuove o interessanti (Araneae). Quaderni del Museo di Speleologia "V. Rivera" 5(10): 1-48 pdf

Esnault M (2020) Découverte de Paraleptoneta spinimana (Simon, 1884) (Araneae, Leptonetidae), espèce nouvelle pour la faune der de France. Revue Arachnologique (2) 7: 27-31 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
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07-09-2020 Distribution insert Detail
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