Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

Enoplognatha bryjai  Řezáč, 2016

Description
Male

Prosoma light brown, with an indistinct dark longitudinal band, especially around the fovea. On the posterior edge of the prosoma two areas with ca. 10 transversal stridulatory furrows with a deep petiolar groove between them. Sternum and labium light brown, but darker than prosoma. Chelicerae light brown, with five large tooth-like outgrowths. Metatarsi I and II slightly curved, ventral sides bearing a row of low sharp spines. Abdomen grey, with white spots. Lateral and posterior parts of the abdomen with a brown, lobated folium, whose center gradually fading, the outer side has a white margin. Ventral side with a wide dark longitudinal stripe and a dark ring around the spinnerets. Above the petiolus there is a semicircular sclerotised rim with two stridulatory teeth.

Body length male: 5.7 mm
Female

Colour pattern resembling male, but darker. Chelicerae unmodified, with two anterior teeth (the proximal one larger) and one posterior. Epigynum with a small transverse oval pit. Lateral loops of the copulatory ducts visible through the integument as a pair of black spots.

Body length female: 5.5-6.3 mm
Additional information

Living at Phragmites australis, Carex sp. and Typha sp. growing in water in the littoral zone of lakes in the lowlands. In areas of naturally brackish lakes and salt marshes in the Pannonian region.

Distribution
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Global distribution (WSC 2024): Czechia, Bulgaria, Ukraine
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"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.

Bulgaria   (Indzhov, 2021) ||| Czechia   (Řezáč et al., 2016; Řezáč et al., 2021; Růžička & Řezáč, 2022a) ||| Ukraine   (Yanul et al., 2022) |||
References

Indzhov S (2021) Enoplognatha bryjai, a remarkable spider record in a city park in Bulgaria (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 1-3 pdf

Řezáč M, Řezáčová V, Heneberg P (2016) Enoplognatha bryjai new species, a bizzare cobweb spider of the Pannonian swamps (Araneae, Theridiidae) Zootaxa 4147: 92-96 pdf

Řezáč M, Růžička V, Hula V, Dolanský J, Machač O, Roušar A (2021) Spiders newly observed in Czechia in recent years – overlooked or invasive species? BioInvasions Records 10: 555-566 pdf

Růžička V, Řezáč M (2022a) Seznam pavouků České republiky. List of spiders of the Czech Republic. Online at https://www.arachnology.cz/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html and https://www.arachnology.cz/en/seznam-pavouku-cr-26.html 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

Yanul V, Terekhova V, Polchaninova N (2022) New data to the rare spider species (Arachnida, Aranei) from Kyiv Region (Ukraine). Zoodiversity 56: 181-188 pdf

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