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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Teloleptoneta  Ribera, 1988   1 species

Teloleptoneta synthetica (Machado, 1951)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003101

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Description
Male

Palp: femur with a series of ventral spines. Prosoma pale yellow, 0.76 mm long. Eyes reduced, sometimes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 to 9 teeth, retromargin with 2, 3 or 5 teeth. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma whitish yellow.

Body length male: 2 mm
Female

Prosoma pale yellow, 0.8 mm long. Eyes reduced, sometimes absent. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 to 9 teeth, retromargin with 2, 3 or 5 teeth. Legs pale yellow. Opisthosoma whitish yellow.

Body length female: 2.4 mm
Additional information

In deep and damp areas of caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, lateral view
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Bulbus
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Tarsus of pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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male Femur I
(Ribera 1988a)

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male Femur I
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Pedipalp
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Eyes, dorsal view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Gnathocoxa
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Labium
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Cheliceral teeth
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

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female Habitus, lateral view
(Machado & Ribera 1986)

Distribution List
Portugal   (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

Machado A de B, Ribera C (1986) Araneidos cavernicolas de Portugal: Familia Leptonetidae (Araneae). Actas X Congreso Internacional de Aracnologia, Barcelona 1: 355-366 pdf

Mammola S, Pavlek M, Huber B A, Isaia M, 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

Ribera C (1988a) La familia Leptonetidae (Arachnida, Araneae) in la Península Ibérica. In Haupt, J. (ed.), XI Europäisches Arachnologisches Colloquium. Technische Universität Berlin Dokumentation Kongresse und Tagungen 38: 267-281 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
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