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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Paraleptoneta  Fage, 1913   2 species

Paraleptoneta spinimana (Simon, 1885)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003081

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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 2026): Algeria, France, Italy
Phenology
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Figures
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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1967b)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Brignoli 1967b)

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male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1979h)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Palpal femur
(Brignoli 1970a)

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male Palpal femur, lateral view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Palpal tibia
(Brignoli 1970a)

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male Palpal tibia, retrolateral view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Eyes, dorsal view
(Esnault 2020)

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male Chelicera
(Brignoli 1967b)

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male Chelicera
(Brignoli 1967b)

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male Chelicerae, frontal view
(Esnault 2020)

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female Tip of pedipalp
(Brignoli 1967b)

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female Vulva
(Brignoli 1967b)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Vulva, variation, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Vulva, expanded
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Vulva, variation, ventral view
(Brignoli 1979h)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Brignoli 1979h)

Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Esnault, 2020) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
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

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

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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