Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Leptonetela  Kratochvíl, 1978   12 species

Leptonetela andreevi  Deltshev, 1985

Description
Male

(The male is known only by the cephalothorax and the left palp of one specimen). Palp: tibia with a proximal, very strong, long spine, followed by a series of 4 spines.

Female

Prosoma pale yellow. Eyes reduced, anterior medians discernible as small pale pustules. Chelicerae: promargin with 7 teeth, retromargin with 4 teeth. Legs yellowish, femur I with one prolateral spine, tibia I and tibia II with 7 spines, tibia III and tibia IV with 4 spines, metatarsus without spines.

Body length female: 2 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece
Phenology
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"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.

Greece   (no references) |||
References

Deltshev C D (1985b) New data concerning cave spiders (Araneae) in Greece with description of a new Leptonetela (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 27: 41-45 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 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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