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Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

Enoplognatha parathoracica  Levy & Amitai, 1981

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:007579

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Description
Male

Prosoma 1.5-1.8 mm long. Chelicerae with one large tooth and one small tooth, large tooth with 2 denticles at its base, distal part of chelicerae distinctly swollen.

Body length male: 2.9-4 mm
Female

Epigyne strongly sclerotized, with a distinct median septum. Prosoma 1.2-1.8 mm long. Colouration as in E.quadripunctata. Femur 0.9 times as long as prosoma.

Body length female: 3.3-4.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Greece not sure.
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece, Cyprus, Turkey, Caucasus, Israel
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Females with egg sac in May.
Figures
species

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

species

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

species

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

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.

Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Georgia   (Ponomarev & Komarov, 2015; Otto, 2022) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Danışman T, Kunt K B, Özkütük R S, Coşar İ (2024a) The checklist of the spiders of Turkey. Version 2024 [last updated 01 January 2024], online at http://www.spidersofturkey.info pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Ponomarev A V, Komarov Y E (2015) Spiders (Aranei) of the Republic of South Ossetia. The South of Russia: Ecology, Development 10(1): 116-147 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.5. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (31.10.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
20-09-2023 Distribution update Detail
13-03-2023 Distribution insert Detail