Borneo Slender Daddy-long-legs
The species featured here can be distinguished from L. podophthalmus by the distinctly longer abdomen and microscopic structures of the male palps. In both sexes, the AME are represented by two black spots, but these are not fully functional eyes as they have no lenses. In the males, the eye triads are mounted on short stumps.The colour of the female abdomen may vary from white to green.
| Length | ♀ 7 mm; ♂ 7 mm. |
| Habitat | On forest foliage. |
| Type Locality | Sepaku, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. |
| Distribution | Indonesia (East Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara), Malaysia (Sabah), Singapore, Thailand. |
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Chelicerata (Chelicerates)
Class Arachnida (Arachnids)
Order Araneae (Spiders)
Leptopholcus borneensis (Original description ♀)
Deeleman-Reinhold, 1986a Studies on tropical Pholcidae II: Redescription of Micromerys gracilis Bradley and Calapnita vermiformis Simon (Araneae, Pholcidae) and description of some related new species: 211, f. 18-23, 25, 59f
Leptopholcus borneensis (♀, D♂)
Huber, 2011b Revision and cladistic analysis of Pholcus and closely related taxa (Araneae, Pholcidae): 94, f. 225-227, 267-268, 378-394
Indonesia (East Kalimantan, West Nusa Tenggara), Malaysia (Sabah), Singapore, Thailand.