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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptonetela  Kratochvíl, 1978   12 species

Leptonetela caucasica Dunin, 1990

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003035

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 0.77 mm.

Body length male: 1.79-1.9 mm
Female

Prosoma and opisthosoma brownish-black. Pedipalps with long setae on femur and tibia. Epigyne with spiral ducts.

Body length female: 1.9 mm
Additional information

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Caucasus (Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan), Iran?
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Dunin 1990a)

species

male Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, prolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2023)

species

male Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Deltshev et al. 2023)

species

male Eyes, dorsal view
(Dunin 1990a)

species

male Chelicerae
(Dunin 1990a)

species

male Metatarsus II
(Dunin 1990a)

species

male Metatarsus III
(Deltshev et al. 2023)

species

female Pedipalp
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

female Epigyne, dorsal view
(Marusik & Guseinov 2003)

species

female Vulva, dorsal view
(Deltshev et al. 2023)

Distribution List
Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) |||
References

Deltshev C, Barjadze S, Maghradze E (2023) On the cave spiders of Georgia with description of a new blind Centromerus (Arachnida: Araneae). Historia Naturalis Bulgarica 45: 283-292 pdf

Dunin P M (1990a) Leptonetela caucasica sp. n. – a first finding of spiders of the family Leptonetidae (Aranei, Haplogynae) in the USSR. Zoologicheskiĭ Zhurnal 69(1): 147-149 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

Marusik Y M, Guseinov E F (2003) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of Azerbaijan. 1. New family and genus records. Arthropoda Selecta 12: 29-46 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

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
15-11-2023 Image insert
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