Leptonetela kanellisi (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1971)

Higher Taxonomy
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Leptonetidae
Genus: Leptonetela
Characterisation
Troglobiont
Distribution
Endemic to Greece
Locus Typicus
Spilaio Koutouki
Region: Attiki / Regional unit: Anatoliki Attiki / Municipality: Paiania / Closest settlement: Paiania
Distribution in caves of Greece
  • Spilaio Koutouki, Deeleman-Reinhold 1971, Brignoli 1974c, Brignoli 1976, Bosmans & Chatzaki 2005, Wang & Li 2011, Beron 2016, Naumova et al. 2016, Wang et al. 2017
    Region: Attiki / Regional unit: Anatoliki Attiki / Municipality: Paiania / Closest settlement: Paiania
Comments

Only known from the type locality.

IUCN Red List
EN - Endangered
Greece's Red Data Book
EN - Endangered
Protection status
  • There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.
Check Databases
Fauna Europea
GBIF
IUCN Red List
PESI
NCBI
Species references
  • Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
  • Bosmans, R. & Chatzaki, M. 2005. A catalogue of the spiders of Greece. A critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Newsletter Belg. Arachn. Soc., 20 (2): 1-124.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1974. Ragni di Grecia VI. Specie nuove o interessanti dele isole Ionie a della Morea. Rev. suisse Zool., 81 (1): 155-175.
  • Brignoli, P. M. 1976. Ragni di Grecia IX. Specie nuove o interessanti delle famiglie Leptonetidae, Dysderidae, Pholcidae ed Agelenidae (Araneae). Rev. suisse Zool., 83 (3): 539-578.
  • Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. 1971. A new species of Sulcia Kratochvil (Araneida, Leptonetidae) from Greece, and a discussion of some Japanese cavernicolus Leptonetidae. Zool. Meded., Leiden, 45 (25): 289-301.
  • Naumova, M., Lazarov, S., Petrov, B. & Deltshev, C. 2016. New faunistic data on the cave-dwelling spiders in the Balkan Peninsula (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina, 7: 425-438.
  • Wang C., Li S. 2011. A further study on the species of the spider genus Leptonetela (Araneae: Leptonetidae). Zootaxa 90:1–90
  • Wang C.-X., Xu X., Li S.-Q. 2017. Integrative taxonomy of Leptonetela spiders (Araneae, Leptonetidae), with descriptions of 46 new species. Zoological Research 38:321–448
Citation
Paragamian, K. 2026. Leptonetela kanellisi (Deeleman-Reinhold, 1971). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 17.11.2025, Accessed 19.04.2026