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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Teloleptoneta  Ribera, 1988   1 species

Teloleptoneta synthetica (Machado, 1951)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003101

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Description
Male

Palp: femur with a series of ventral spines. Prosoma pale yellow, 0.76 mm long. Eyes reduced, sometimes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 to 9 teeth, retromargin with 2, 3 or 5 teeth. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma whitish yellow.

Body length male: 2 mm
Female

Prosoma pale yellow, 0.8 mm long. Eyes reduced, sometimes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 to 9 teeth, retromargin with 2, 3 or 5 teeth. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma whitish yellow.

Body length female: 2.4 mm
Additional information

In deep and damp areas of caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Bulbus
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Tarsus of pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Femur I
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Femur I
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Eyes, dorsal view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Gnathocoxa
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Labium
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Cheliceral teeth
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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.

Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Machado A de B, Ribera C (1986) Araneidos cavernicolas de Portugal: Familia Leptonetidae (Araneae). Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia, Barcelona 1: 355-366 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

Ribera C (1988a) La familia Leptonetidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in la Península Ibérica. In Haupt, J. (ed.), XI Europäisches Arachnologisches Colloquium. Technische Universität Berlin Dokumentation Kongresse und Tagungen 38: 267-281 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
17-12-2015 Image insert
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