Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta infuscata  Simon, 1872

Description
Male

Palp 1.2 mm long.

Body length male: 2-2.5 mm
Female

Palp: femur slightly longer than tarsus, tarsus as long as tibia and patella together. Colouration variable, specimens outdoor purplish brown, specimens in caves pale. Eyes well developed, surrounded with black, posterior eyes smaller, 1 to 2 diameters from ALE. Legs: spination very variable, femur and metatarsus without spines (forma typical) or with spines (forma iberica).

Body length female: 2-2.5 mm
Additional information

Usually outdoor, in coniferous, deciduous or mixed forests, among moss or under stones, also in caves.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Estland in Fauna Europaea doubtful, therefore deleted
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain (mainland, Majorca), 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   (Déjean, 2022c) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (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

Déjean S (2022c) Révision des Leptoneta du groupe infuscata (Leptonetidae, Araneae) dans les Pyrénées et sur le versant Sud de la Montagne Noire (Occitanie, France) avec description de Leptoneta albera sp. nov. Revue Arachnologique (2) 9: 13-25 pdf

Déjean S, Danflous S, Oger P (2019) Le genre Leptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) dans les Hautes-Pyrénées (France). Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 2-9 pdf

Dresco E (1986) Etude des Leptoneta. Leptoneta corsica Fage (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 122: 35-39 pdf

Duffey E, Brignoli P M (1981) Two rare spiders from the Spanish Pyrenees (prov. Huesca). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 155-158 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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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
16-03-2023 Image insert
16-01-2023 Distribution update Detail
16-07-2020 Distribution update Detail
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11-06-2015 Distribution update Detail
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