Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Leptopilos  Levy, 2009   7 species

Leptopilos manolisi (Chatzaki, 2002)

Description
Male

Body colouration yellow. Prosoma length: 0.7-1.1 mm.

Body length male: 1.5-2.2 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 0.9-1.0 mm.

Body length female: 1.9-2.2 mm
Additional information

Seems to prefer sandy substrates in wet places.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece (Crete), Turkey, Israel
Phenology
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Figures
Distribution List
Greece / Crete   (Chatzaki et al., 2002a; Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Akar & Türkeş, 2022) |||
References

Akar M S, Türkeş T (2022) Leptopilos manolisi (Chatzaki, 2002) (Araneae: Gnaphosidae) new record in Türkiye. Serket 19: 26-28 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Chatzaki M, Thaler K, Mylonas M (2002a) Ground spiders (Gnaphosidae; Araneae) of Crete (Greece). Taxonomy and distribution. I. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 109: 559-601 pdf

Levy G (2009) New ground-spider genera and species with annexed checklist of the Gnaphosidae (Araneae) of Israel. Zootaxa 2066: 1-49 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
25-04-2025 Distribution update Detail
20-11-2022 Image insert
19-11-2022 Distribution insert Detail
17-12-2015 Image insert