Leptoneta fagei Simon, 1914
Description
Male
Similar to L. convexa, except the following character: Palp 1.3 mm long.
Female
Similar to L. convexa, except the following characters: Palp: femur as long as tibia and patella together, and slightly longer than tarsus. Eyes slightly surrounded with black, posterior eyes more than one diameter from ALE. Legs: femur without spines, tibia with 2 dorsal spines, and one pair of apical spines, tibia I with 2 lateral spines, other tibiae with one lateral spine, metatarsus with one lateral spine.
Body length female: 2.5 mmAdditional information
In caves.
Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Fage 1931)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Fage 1931)
Median apophysis, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1982)
Palpal apophysis
(Dresco 1982)
Vulva
(Dresco 1982)
Vulva, variation
(Dresco 1982)
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.
References
Dresco E (1982) Étude des Leptoneta. Leptoneta fagei Sim. (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Bulletin de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Toulouse 118: 49-51 
Fage L (1931) Araneae, 5e série, précédée d'un essai sur l'évolution souterraine et son déterminisme. In Biospeologica, LV. Archives de Zoologie Expérimentale et Générale 71: 99-291
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 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
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