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Leptonetidae  Simon, 1890 / Sulcia  Kratochvíl, 1938   10 species

Sulcia nocturna  Kratochvíl, 1938

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:003098

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Description
Male

Palp: tibia apically with 2 short, curved spines, in the middle with 3 ventral, short tubercles bearing thin spines. Eyes: 4 very small eyes, or eyes absent.

Body length male: 1.9-2 mm
Female

Palpal tarsal claw with 5 or 6 teeth. Body and appendages pale. Eyes: 4 small eyes, the AME are absent, sometimes all eyes absent, posteriors at least 6 diameters from anteriors. Chelicerae: promargin with 9 or 10 teeth, retromargin with 7 to 9 teeth. Legs: spines as in S. inferna, metatarsus I slightly shorter than tibia I, longer than femur I. Opisthosoma oval, covered with numerous hairs.

Body length female: 2.6-2.7 mm
Additional information

In caves.

Troglobiont species (Mammola et al., 2022)

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

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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male Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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male Spines on palpal tibia
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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female Palpal claw
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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Gnathocoxa
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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Gnathocoxa, prolateral view
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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Labium
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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Cheliceral teeth
(Kratochvíl 1938b)

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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) |||
References

Kratochvíl J (1938b) Étude sur les araignées cavernicoles du genre Sulcia nov. gen. Práce Moravské Přírodovědecké Společnosti 11(3): 1-25 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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. 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

Updates
03-09-2015 Image insert