Linyphiidae  Blackwall, 1859 / Gonatium  Menge, 1868   13 species

Gonatium ensipotens (Simon, 1882)

Description
Male

Prosoma orange, prosoma length: 1.1 mm, raised anteriorly in males. Sternum red-brown to orange. Legs yellow to orange. Opisthosoma grey-pink.

Body length male: 2.35 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 1.2 mm. Colouration as in males.

Body length female: 2.7-3 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Germany: see comment by Blick et al. (2016)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, France, Italy
Phenology
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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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Germany   (Blick et al., 2016) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Blick T, Finch O-D, Harms K H, Kiechle J, Kielhorn K-H , Kreuels M, Malten A, Martin D, Muster C, Nährig D, Platen R, Rödel I, Scheidler M, Staudt A, Stumpf H, Tolke D (2016) Rote Liste und Gesamtartenliste der Spinnen (Arachnida: Araneae) Deutschlands. 3. Fassung, Stand April 2008, einzelne Änderungen und Nachträge bis August 2015. Naturschutz und Biologische Vielfalt 70/4: 383-510 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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Millidge A F (1981b) A revision of the genus Gonatium (Araneae, Linyphiidae). Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 5: 253-277 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
28-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
28-06-2025 Distribution insert Detail
02-03-2015 Distribution update Detail
17-12-2013 Datasheet update Detail