Leptonetela thracia Gasparo, 2005

Higher Taxonomy

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

Characterisation

Troglobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Maroneias
Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Rodopi / Municipality: Maroneia - Sapes / Closest settlement: Maroneia

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Maroneias, Gasparo 2005b, Wang & Li 2011, Beron 2016, Naumova et al. 2016, Mammola et al. 2017, Wang et al. 2017, Ledford et al. 2021, Ramirez et al. 2021
  Region: Anatoliki Makedonia-Thraki / Regional unit: Rodopi / Municipality: Maroneia - Sapes / Closest settlement: Maroneia

Comments

Only known from the type locality

IUCN Red List

CR - Critically Endangered

Greece's Red Data Book

CR - Critically 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.
• Gasparo, F. 2005. Una nuova Leptonetela cavernicola di Grecia (Araneae, Leptonetidae). Boll. Mus. Reg. Sci. Nat. Torino, 22 (2): 517-524.
• Ledford J, Derkarabetian S, Ribera C, Starrett J, Bond J, Griswold C, Hedin M. 2021. Phylogenomics and biogeography of leptonetid spiders (Araneae: Leptonetidae).. Invertebrate Systematics, 35: 332–349
• 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
• 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.
• Ramirez M, Magalhaes ILF, Derkarabetian S, Ledford J, Charles E, Wood HM, Hedin M. 2021. Sequence-capture phylogenomics of true spiders reveals convergent evolution of respiratory systems. Systematic Biology 70:14–20.
• 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 thracia Gasparo, 2005. 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