Enoplognatha diversa (Blackwall, 1859)
Description
Male palp with robust basal tubercles on radix. Epigyne with strongly sclerotised posterior margin of epigynal pit, 3-4 times as wide as diameter of pit. Prosoma brown, with dark margin. Sternum dark brown, with black margin. Legs brown. Femur and tibia with dark brown to black spots. Opisthosoma with folium and median black stripes, ventrally anteriorly to spinnerets a black stripe with slender white margin.
Body length male: 2.5-4.9 mmBody length female: 3.2-6.3 mm
Additional information
Often in dry habitats, pine forests, holm oak forests, maquis, dunes, also in grasslands, on river banks and under stones.
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Lecigne et al. 2025)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(IJland 2023)
Epigyne
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva, dorsal view
(IJland 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Vulva, ventral view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
Habitus, dorsal view
(IJland 2023)
Habitus, dorsal view
(Rehfeldt & Cassar 2024)
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, 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
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
IJland S (2023) Enoplognatha diversa (Araneae, Theridiidae) geimporteerd in Nederland met een bloemkool [Enoplognatha diversa (Araneae, Theridiidae) imported in the Netherlands with a cauliflower]. Nieuwsbrief SPINED 40: 22-23
Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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