Genus Leptonetela Kratochvíl, 1978

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

Leptonetela was established by KratochvÍl and Leptonetela kanellisi (Deeleman–Reinhold, 1971) from a cave in Greece was designated as its type species (KratochvÍl, 1978). The genus Leptonetela 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 includes 105 known species distributed in Europe and Asia, and most of them are found in China (93 species) (WSC, 2018).