Enoplognatha testacea Simon, 1884
Description
Male
Male palp with small, inconspicuous radix. Colouration as in female. Prosoma 1-1.4 mm long. Chelicerae with a small distal tooth, and a large basal tooth with a denticle at its base.
Body length male: 2.2-3.3 mmFemale
Epigyne with small, round central depression. Prosoma light brown, 1-1.5 mm long. Legs light brown, unicoloured. Opisthosoma grey-brown, 3 pairs of white, irregular spots. Laterally with bright stripe, sometimes broken into spots.
Body length female: 2.4-4.1 mmAdditional information
Usually in dry habitats, garrigue, holm oak and cork oak forests, pine forests, dry grasslands, vineyards, rarely in meadows, in caves and under stones.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicera, posterior view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne
(Iorio unpubl.)
Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva
(Dresco 1962)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2018b)
Distribution List
References
Bosmans R, Van Keer J (1999) The genus Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1880 in the Mediterranean region (Araneae: Theridiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 209-241 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Dresco E (1962) Araignées capturées en France dans les grottes ou des cavités souterraines. Annales de Spéléologie 17: 177-193
Iorio E (unpubl.) .
Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522
Lecigne S (2018b) Récits de chasses aranéologiques récentes dans plusieurs départements de France. Redécouverte de Philodromus buchari Kubcová, 2004 (Araneae: Philodromidae) et confirmation de la présence de Theridion harmsi Wunderlich, 2011 (Araneae: Theridiidae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 33: 59-99
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
WSC (2022) World Spider Catalog. Version 23.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (21.01.2022) doi: 10.24436/2
Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 97-112
Updates
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