Leptonetela thracia Gasparo, 2005
Description
Male
Male pedipalp with long ventral spine. Prosoma yellow-brown, smooth. Sternum yellowish, bordered with yellowish brown, heart-shaped. Eyes: posterior eyes often absent, anterior eyes very reduced. Chelicerae yellowish brown. Legs yellowish. Metatarsus II and III proximally with modified ventral setae. Opisthosoma yellowish, oval.
Body length male: 2.2 mmFemale
Prosoma yellow-brown, 0.79-0.98 mm long. Eyes: posterior eyes often absent, anterior eyes very reduced. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma yellowish.
Body length female: 2.4 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Gasparo 2005a)
Vulva, ventral view
(Gasparo 2005a)
Tibia III
(Gasparo 2005a)
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.
References
Gasparo F (2005a) Una nuova Leptonetela cavernicola di Grecia (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 22: 517-524 
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
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
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