Leptonetidae

Taxobox
name = Leptonetidae
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Arthropoda
classis = Arachnida
ordo = Araneae
superfamilia = Leptonetoidea
familia = Leptonetidae
familia_authority = Simon, 1890
diversity_link = List of Leptonetidae species
diversity = 15 genera, 200 species
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subdivision_ranks = Genera
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Leptonetidae if a family of relatively primitive haplogyne (lacking hardened external female genitalia) spiders, which includes 15 genera and nearly 200 species. 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.

Genera

ee also

* List of Leptonetidae species
* Spider families

References

* Gertsch, W.J. (1978). The spider family Leptonetidae in North America. "Journal of Arachnology" 1:145-203. [http://www.americanarachnology.org/JoA_free/JoA_v1_n3/JoA_v1_p145.pdf 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. [http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/bitstream/2246/5198/1/N2855.pdf PDF]

External links

* [http://www.arachnology.org/Arachnology/Pages/Araneae.html Arachnology Home Pages: Araneae]
* [http://research.amnh.org/entomology/spiders/catalog81-87/index.html Platnick, N.I. 2003. World Spider Catalog]