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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Sulcia  Kratochvíl, 1938   10 species

Sulcia montenegrina (Kratochvíl & Miller, 1939)

Description
Male

Palp: femur strongly curved, median tubercle with a bifid strong spine, tibia with a very particular spatulate strong spine. Prosoma and appendages light brownish. Eyes well developed, with a thin black ring. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 teeth, retromargin with 3 teeth. Legs almost spineless. Opisthosoma whitish.

Body length male: 1.6 mm
Female

Unknown.

Additional information

Only one male specimen known. In cave.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Montenegro
Figures
Distribution List
Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) |||
References

Kratochvíl J, Miller F (1939) Espèces nouvelles cavernicoles du genre Paraleptoneta (aranéides) découvertes en Yougoslavie. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 80(N. & Rev. 3): 96-115 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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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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