Enoplognatha franzi Wunderlich, 1995
Description
Male
Prosoma 1-2.4 mm long. Colouration as in female. Chelicerae with 2 long teeth, the basal stronger with 2 denticles at its base.
Body length male: 2.1-5.1 mmFemale
Epigyne: opening circular or slightly wider than long, with narrow median septum more or less visible, posterior margin concave. Prosoma brown with black borderline. Prosoma 1.1-2 mm long. Sternum dark brown with black edges. Legs brown with dark annulations, femur I about 1.1 times as long as prosoma. Opisthosoma with dorsal folium, ventrally with a wide median black band and 2 lateral white stripes.
Body length female: 2.4-5.5 mmAdditional information
Often in dry or semi-dry habitats, pine forests, oak forests, garrigue, dunes, grasslands, stone walls, gardens, also on river banks and under stones.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, lateral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)
Chelicera
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Epigyne
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Ouakri et al. 2026)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Distribution List
"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.
References
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 
Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535
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
Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Lecigne S, Moutaouakil S, Lips J (2025) Contribution to the knowledge of the spider fauna of Morocco (Arachnida: Araneae) – second note. On new species and new records from caves and miscellaneous terrestrial ecosystems. Journal of the Belgian Arachnological Society 40(1, supplement): 1-184
Nicolosi G, Pantini P, Devincenzo U, Guariento L A, Italiano V, Zanca L, Sarà M, Isaia M (2024) New data on spiders (Arachnida, Araneae) from the islands of the Strait of Sicily (Southern Italy) with taxonomic notes on Poecilochroa loricata Kritscher, 1996 (Araneae, Gnaphosidae) and eight new records for Europe. The European Zoological Journal 91: 1009-1034
Ouakri N, Lecigne S, Abou Oualid J, Dugon M (2026) Spiders from the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of Souss-Massa region (Morocco), and descriptions of two new species (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 1051: 1-50
Rehfeldt S, Cassar T (2024) A contribution to the arachnofauna (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones) of the Maltese Islands, with two new records for Europe. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 67: 18-47
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2