Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta fouresi  Dresco, 1979

Description
Male

Similar to L. microphthalma.

Body length male: 2.4 mm
Female

Similar to L. microphthalma. Eyes surrounded with black, AME larger than ALE, posterior eyes 2.5 diameters from ALE. Legs: femur with spines.

Body length female: 3 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): France
Phenology
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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.

France   (no references) |||
References

Dresco E (1979) Etude des Leptoneta. Description de Leptoneta fouresi, araignée cavernicole nouvelle des Pyrénées françaises (fam. Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 115: 388-392 pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
09-07-2015 Image insert