Theridiidae  Sundevall, 1833 / Enoplognatha  Pavesi, 1880   31 species

Enoplognatha giladensis  (Levy & Amitai, 1982)

Description
Male

Prosoma 1.4-1.6 mm long. Colouration as in female. Chelicerae not enlarged, without large teeth, but with 3 promargin teeth and one retromargin tooth.

Body length male: 2.9-3.3 mm
Female

Epigyne: 2 crescent-shaped openings on a plump lip-like extension over edges of epigastric furrow. Prosoma light brown with dark radiating lines. Prosoma 1-2.2 mm long. Sternum uniform yellow-brown. Chelicerae with 3 teeth on promargin and one tooth on retromargin. Femur I about 1.1 times as long as prosoma. Opisthosoma grey, sometimes with faint pattern of pale grey markings. Colulus relatively large, bearing 2 setae at base.

Body length female: 2.7-5 mm
Additional information

In pine forests, hill slopes with oaks, mixed forests, scrub, grassland in olive grove and under stones. Egg sacs white, spherical, woolly, about 4 mm in diameter, containing about 15 eggs.

Distribution
  Presence
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Global distribution (WSC 2024): Greece (Rhodes), Turkey, Israel, Azerbaijan
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.

Azerbaijan   (no references) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Danışman et al., 2024a) |||
References

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

Huseynov E F, Marusik Y M (2008) Spiders (Arachnida, Aranei) of Azerbaijan 3. Survey of the genus Enoplognatha Pavesi, 1880 (Theridiidae). Arthropoda Selecta 16: 153-167 pdf

Knoflach B, Thaler K (2000) Notes on Mediterranean Theridiidae (Araneae)-I. Memorie della Società Entomologica Italiana 78: 411-442 pdf

Le Peru B (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 pdf

Nuruyeva T V (2017) The fauna of soil-dwelling spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) in forest stands of dry-steppe lowmountains of Gobustan, Azerbaijan. Euroasian Entomological Journal 16: 306-310 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
09-04-2019 Image insert
09-04-2019 Distribution update Detail