Leptonetela paragamiani Wang & Li, 2016

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Leptonetidae
Genus: Leptonetela

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Panos
Region: Attiki / Regional unit: Dytiki Attiki / Municipality: Fyli / Closest settlement: Fyli

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Panos, Wu et al. 2016, Mammola et al. 2017, Wang et al. 2017
  Region: Attiki / Regional unit: Dytiki Attiki / Municipality: Fyli / Closest settlement: Fyli

Comments

Only known from the type locality

IUCN Red List

DD - Data Deficient

Greece's Red Data Book

DD - Data Deficient

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

GBIF

IUCN Red List

NCBI

Species references

• Mammola S, Cardoso P, Ribera C, Pavlek M, Isaia M. 2017. A synthesis on cave-dwelling spiders in Europe. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research:1–16
• 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
• Wu, Y., Wang, C., Zheng, G. & Li, S. 2016. Three new species of the genus Leptonetela from Greece (Araneae, Leptonetidae). ZooKeys (569): 23-35.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Leptonetela paragamiani Wang & Li, 2016. 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