Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta leucophthalma  Simon, 1907

Description
Male

Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1 mm long.

Female

Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Eyes slightly surrounded with black, anterior eyes twice as large as posteriors, posterior eyes 2 diameters from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines and one lateral spine, metatarsus with one lateral spine.

Body length female: 2 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France
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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) ||| Spain   (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, Danflous S, Oger P (2019) Le genre Leptoneta (Araneae, Leptonetidae) dans les Hautes-Pyrénées (France). Revue Arachnologique (2) 6: 2-9 pdf

Fage L (1913) Etudes sur les araignées cavernicoles. II Revision des Leptonetidae. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale (5) 10: 479-576 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
27-08-2019 Distribution update Detail
27-08-2019 Image insert
09-07-2015 Image insert