Enoplognatha caricis (Fickert, 1876)
Description
Male
Male palp with median apophysis twice as long as wide. Prosoma light brown, with darker margin and radial stripes. Sternum dark brown, margin darker. Chelicerae brown, distally with 2 robust, bent teeth. Legs brown. Opisthosoma brown, ventrally unicoloured, dorsally with dark brown folium and white longitudinal stripe anterior of heart region reaching spinnerets.
Body length male: 5.0 mmFemale
Epigyne with very wide epigynal groove, backwardly bent laterally. Opisthosoma ventrally with white spots.
Body length female: 5.0-7.7 mmAdditional information
In bogs and swamps
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001a)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp
(Yoshida 2001a)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Wiehle 1937)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Yoshida 2001a)
Chelicera, lateral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Palpal claw
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Yoshida 2001a)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Wunderlich 1976)
Epigyne/vulva, ventral view
(Lecigne 2016d)
Vulva
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva
(Yoshida 2001a)
Vulva
(Heimer & Nentwig 1991)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Lecigne 2016d)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Kupryjanowicz 1997a)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Yoshida 2001a)
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.
References
Arnold K (2001) Beitrag zur Spinnenfauna (Arachnida, Araneae) des Fürstentums Liechtenstein. Berichte der Botanisch-Zoologischen Gesellschaft Liechtenstein-Sargans-Werdenberg 28: 211-244 
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
Bosmans R, Van Keer K (2017) Een herziene soortenlijst van de Belgische spinnen (Araneae). Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische Arachnologische Vereniging 32: 39-69
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
Heimer S, Nentwig W (1991) Spinnen Mitteleuropas. Paul Parey Berlin
Kupryjanowicz J (1997a) Spiders of the Biebrza National Parc - species new and rare to Poland. Proceedings of the 16th European Colloquium of Arachnology: 183-194
Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212
Lecigne S (2016d) Atlas préliminaire des araignées Araneae du Nord et du Pas-de-Calais. Le Héron 48(2015): 1-236
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152
Polchaninova N, Prokopenko E (2019) An updated checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of Left-Bank Ukraine. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 57: 60-64 & App
Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp.
Rozwałka R, Stanska M (2008) Check-list of spiders (Araneae) of Poland. 1. December 2008. online at http://www.arachnologia.edu.pl/en/species/8-spiders-of-poland.html
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
Wiehle H (1937) Spinnentiere oder Arachnoidea, VIII. 26: Familie Theridiidae oder Haubennetzspinnen (Kugelspinnen). Die Tierwelt Deutschlands 33: 119-222
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
Wunderlich J (1976) Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattung Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick. Cambridge Senckenbergiana Biologica 57: 97-112
Yoshida H (2001a) The spider genera Robertus, Enoplognatha, Steatoda and Crustulina (Araneae: Theridiidae) from Japan. Acta Arachnologica 50: 31-48
Updates
| 21-10-2015 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 12-03-2015 | Image insert | |
| 18-12-2014 | Image insert |