Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

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 mm
Body 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
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: The record from the Russian Caucasus (Daghestan) should be verified
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Cape Verde, Canary Is., Madeira, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Portugal, Spain, France, Malta, Greece
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.

Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Greece / Crete   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Malta   (Rehfeldt & Cassar, 2024) ||| Morocco   (Bosmans & Van Keer, 1999) ||| Netherlands   (IJland, 2023) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Russia, Southern   (Otto, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Bosmans, 2003) |||
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 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 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

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 pdf

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

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 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

Updates
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17-06-2024 Distribution insert Detail
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