Enoplognatha caricis (Fickert, 1876)
Description
Male palp with median apophysis twice as long as wide. Epigyne with very wide epigynal groove, backwardly bent laterally. Prosoma light brown, with darker margin and radial stripes. Sternum dark brown, margin darker. Chelicerae brown, male: distally with 2 robust, bent teeth. Legs brown. Opisthosoma brown, ventrally unicoloured, dorsally with dark brown folium and white longitudinal stripe anterior of heart region reaching spinnerets. Female: ventrally with white spots.
Body length male: 5 mmBody length female: 5-7.7 mm
Additional information
In bogs and swamps
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp
(Yoshida 2001)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Wiehle 1937)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001)
Chelicera, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Yoshida 2001)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2016d)
Vulva
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva
(Yoshida 2001)
Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2016d)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Yoshida 2001)
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 
Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S (2019) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2019 [last updated 1 June 2019], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Kupryjanowicz J (1997a) Spiders of the Biebrza National Parc - species new and rare to Poland. Proceedings of the 16th European Colloquium of Arachnology: 183-194
Lecigne S (2016d) Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236
Otto S (2020) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 03.2020. 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). http://araneae.it. Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
WSC (2021) World Spider Catalog. Version 21.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (03.01.2021) 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
Yoshida H (2001) The spider genera Robertus, Enoplognatha, Steatoda and Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 50: 31-48
Updates
| 21-10-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 12-03-2015 | Image insert | |
| 18-12-2014 | Image insert |