Leptonetid spider
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The Leptonetid spiders include 15 genera and nearly 200 species of relatively primitive haplogyne (lacking hardened external female genitalia) spiders. The family is poorly known to anybody but specialists. Leptonetids are generally tiny, have six eyes arranged in a semicircle of four in front and two posteriorly. Many live in caves or in leaf litter. They are found around the Mediterranean, and in Eurasia, Japan and the New World.
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[edit] Genera
- Appaleptoneta Platnick, 1986 (USA)
- Archoleptoneta Gertsch, 1974 (USA, Mexico, Panama)
- Barusia Kratochvíl, 1978 (Croatia, Greece, Montenegro)
- Calileptoneta Platnick, 1986 (USA)
- Cataleptoneta Denis, 1955 (Turkey, Crete, Lebanon)
- Falcileptoneta Komatsu, 1970 (Japan)
- Leptoneta Simon, 1872 (Southern Europe, Central Asia, USA)
- Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978 (Greece, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Georgia)
- Masirana Kishida, 1942 (Japan)
- Neoleptoneta Brignoli, 1972 (Mexico, USA)
- Paraleptoneta Fage, 1913 (Tunisia, Algeria, Italy)
- Protoleptoneta Deltshev, 1972 (Europe)
- Sulcia Kratochvíl, 1938 (Balkans, Greece)
- Teloleptoneta Ribera, 1988 (Portugal)
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[edit] References
- Gertsch, W.J. (1978). The spider family Leptonetidae in North America. Journal of Arachnology 1:145-203. PDF
- Platnick, N.I. (1986). On the tibial and patellar glands, relationships, and American genera of the spider family Leptonetidae (Arachnida, Araneae). American Museum novitates 2855. PDF
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