Lepthyphantes leprosus (Ohlert, 1865)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Family: Linyphiidae
Genus: Lepthyphantes

Characterisation

Troglophile

Distribution

North America, Europe to eastern Russia. Introduced to Chile

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Avras, Beron 2016
  Region: Kentriki Makedonia / Regional unit: Pella / Municipality: Almopia / Closest settlement: Loutra Loutrakiou
• Spilaio Kokkalia Trypa, Mammola et al. 2019
  Region: Thessalia / Regional unit: Magnisia / Municipality: Almyros / Closest settlement: Pteleos
• Spilaio Panagias Kakoperatianis, Tanasevitch 2011
  Region: Voreio Aigaio / Regional unit: Samos / Municipality: Samos / Closest settlement: Kosmadaioi

IUCN Red List

NE - Not Evaluated

Greece's Red Data Book

NE - Not Evaluated

Protection status

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

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

PESI

NCBI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Mammola S, Cardoso P, Angyal D, Balázs G, Blick T, Carter J, Danflous S, Dányi L, Déjean S, Elverici M, Fernández J, Gasparo F, Komnenov M, Ková L, Bo K, Mock A, Moldovan O, Pavlek M, Prieto C E, Ribera C, Rozwa R, Vargovitsh R S, Zaenker S, Isaia M. 2019. Continental data on cave-dwelling spider communities across Europe (Arachnida : Araneae). Biodiversity Data Journal 7: e38492:1–15.
• Tanasevitch, A. 2011. On linyphiid spiders (Araneae) from the Eastern and Central Mediterranean kept at the Museum d'histoire naturelle, Geneva. Rev. suisse Zool., 118 (1): 49-91.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Lepthyphantes leprosus (Ohlert, 1865). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 03.09.2018, Accessed 31.01.2026