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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Barusia  Kratochvíl, 1978   5 species

Barusia hofferi  (Kratochvíl, 1935)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:002938

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Description
Male

Unknown.

Female

Palp: femur with 7 spines, patella with one spine, tibia with 7 spines, tarsus with 2 ventral spines and 2 short apical spines. Prosoma pale purplish brown. Sternum blackish. Eyes in a compact group, almost as wide as long, a black area behind anterior eyes, posterior eyes less than one diameter from ALE. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 equidistant teeth, retromargin with 4 small teeth. Legs pale purplish brown, patella with one dorsal apical spine, tibia with 2 dorsal spines. Opisthosoma covered with dense hair, dorsally brownish, with 2 faint bands, ventrally blackish.

Additional information

Only one female specimen known . In cave.

Troglophile species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Montenegro
Figures
species

female Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)

species

female Epigyne/vulva
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)

species

female Gnathocoxa, prolateral view
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)

species

female Labium
(Kratochvíl & Miller 1939)

species

female Chelicera, posterior view
(Kratochvíl 1935c)

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.

Montenegro   (Naumova et al., 2019a) ||| Serbia   (no references) |||
References

Kratochvíl J (1935c) Araignées cavernicoles de Krivosije. Práce Morav prírod spol 9(12): 1-25 pdf

Kratochvíl J, Miller F (1939) Espèces nouvelles cavernicoles du genre Paraleptoneta (aranéides) découvertes en Yougoslavie. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 80(N. & Rev. 3): 96-115 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

Naumova M, Lazarov S, Deltshev C (2019a) Faunistic diversity of the spiders in Montenegro (Arachnida: Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 22: 50-89 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
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