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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   30 species

Enoplognatha testacea  Simon, 1884

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007594

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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 mm
Female

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 mm
Additional 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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2019): Southern, Central Europe to Central Asia
Phenology
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 male  female
Females with egg sac in February and May.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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male Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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male Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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male Chelicera, posterior view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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female Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Epigyne, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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female Vulva
(Dresco 1962)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Wunderlich 1976)

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female Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2018b)

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 pdf

Dresco E (1962) Araignées capturées en France dans les grottes ou des cavités souterraines. Ann Spéléolog 17: 177-193

Helsdingen P J van (2010a) Araneae. In: Fauna Europaea Database (Version 2010.1), online at www.european-arachnology.org

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 pdf

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 pdf

Otto S (2017) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 08.2017. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). online at http://www.museoscienzebergamo.it/web/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=96&Itemid=94 pdf

World Spider Catalog (2019) World Spider Catalog, version 20.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.09.2019) doi: 10.24436/2

Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senck Biol 57: 97-112

Updates
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