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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

Enoplognatha verae Bosmans & Van Keer, 1999

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007599

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.5 mm long. Colouration as in female, but sternum with posterior median dark spot. Chelicerae with one large, basally curved tooth and denticles at the base of this tooth.

Body length male: 3.3-3.8 mm
Female

Epigyne with small posterior median depression, only its anterior margin chitinised. Prosoma yellowish brown, with median and lateral dark stripes. Prosoma 0.95-1.8 mm long. Sternum yellowish brown with bifurcated stripe. Legs yellowish brown, all segments apically darker, and with scattered black spots, femur I twice as long as prosoma. Opisthosoma whitish, dorsally with an elongated dark grey to black folium, ventrally with a median dark band and 2 lateral whitish stripes.

Body length female: 2.8-5.7 mm
Additional information

Under stones.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Italy (Sardinia), Greece, Morocco, Tunisia
Phenology
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Figures
species

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

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

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male Chelicera
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)

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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.

Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 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

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

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
28-10-2025 Distribution update Detail