Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978

He, Ailan, Liu, Jinxin, Xu, Xiang, Yin, Haiqiang & Peng, Xianjin, 2019, Description of three new species of spider genus Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978 from caves of Hunan Province, China (Araneae, Leptonetidae), Zootaxa 4554 (2), pp. 584-600 : 585

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4554.2.10
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:90C205A6-B1CC-4377-990E-E511A4F1989A
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5928041
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scientific name	Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978
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Genus Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978 View in CoL View at ENA

Leptonetela: Kratochvíl 1978: 11 View in CoL , f. 1G. Type species Sulcia kanellisi (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1971) from Greece.

Leptonetela View in CoL was established by KratochvÍl and Leptonetela kanellisi (Deeleman–Reinhold, 1971) View in CoL from a cave in Greece was designated as its type species ( KratochvÍl, 1978). The genus Leptonetela View in CoL can be distinguished from other leptonetid genera by the following combination of male pedipalpal characters: femur lacking spines and tibia with a longitudinal row of spines on the retrolateral surface ( Wang, Xu & Li, 2017). Leptonetela View in CoL includes 105 known species distributed in Europe and Asia, and most of them are found in China (93 species) (WSC, 2018).