Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptoneta  Simon, 1872   35 species

Leptoneta paroculus  Simon, 1907

Description
Male

Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1.2 mm long.

Female

Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Palp: femur slightly longer than tarsus, tarsus as long as tibia and patella together, claw with 2 teeth. Eyes large, surrounded with black, posterior eyes slightly more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines and one apical spine, metatarsus with one lateral spine. Opisthosoma more or less darker on the sides.

Body length female: 2 mm
Additional information

In caves, also outdoor: in beech forest, under large stones, altitude about 1500 m.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, 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) ||| 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

Breitling R (2018) Eric Duffey's spider collection in the Manchester Museum – an update. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 141: 5-9 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 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

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

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
24-07-2020 Image insert
27-08-2019 Image insert
27-08-2019 Distribution update Detail
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