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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

Enoplognatha franzi  Wunderlich, 1995

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007549

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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 mm
Female

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 mm
Additional 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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean, Iraq
Phenology
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Figures
species

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

species

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

species

male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Breitling 2020)

species

male Chelicera
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

species

female Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

species

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

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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, unpubl.) |||
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 pdf

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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Breitling R (2020) South European spiders from the Duffey collection in the Manchester Museum (Arachnida: Araneae). Arachnology 18: 333-362 pdf

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

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
24-07-2020 Image insert