Male pedipalp with long ventral spine. Prosoma yellow-brown, smooth. Sternum yellowish, bordered with yellowish brown, heart-shaped. Eyes: posterior eyes often absent, anterior eyes very reduced. Chelicerae yellowish brown. Legs yellowish. Metatarsus II and III proximally with modified ventral setae. Opisthosoma yellowish, oval.
Body length male: 2.2 mmProsoma yellow-brown, 0.79-0.98 mm long. Eyes: posterior eyes often absent, anterior eyes very reduced. Legs yellowish. Opisthosoma yellowish.
Body length female: 2.4 mmIn caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
"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.
Gasparo F (2005a) Una nuova Leptonetela cavernicola di Grecia (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bollettino del Museo Regionale di Scienze Naturali di Torino 22: 517-524
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
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
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