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Leptonetid spider

Leptonetid spiders
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Arthropoda
Class:Arachnida
Order: Araneae
SuborderAraneomorphae
FamilyLeptonetidae
Genera
Leptoneta
The Leptonetid spiders (Family Leptonetidae) include 15 genera and nearly 200 species of relatively primitive haplogyne (lacking hardened external female genitalia)spiders. The family is poorly known to anybody but specialists. Leptonetids are generally tiny, have six eyes arranged in a semicircle of four in front and two posteriorly. Many live in caves or in leaf litter. They are found around the Mediterranean, and in Eurasia, Japan and the New World.

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