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 mmFemale
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 mmAdditional 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
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Bulbus, prolateral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Chelicera, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Chelicerae, lateral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Chelicerae and eyes, frontal view
(Indzhov 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Vulva, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Vulva, ventral view
(Řezáč et al. 2016)
Vulva, caudal view
(Indzhov 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Indzhov 2021)
Vulva, ventral view
(Indzhov 2021)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Yanul et al. 2022)
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
Indzhov S (2021) Enoplognatha bryjai, a remarkable spider record in a city park in Bulgaria (Araneae: Theridiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 62: 1-3 
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
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
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
Vasiliev A I, Mikhailov K G (2023) Annotated checklist of spiders (Araneae) of the Republic of Moldova. Invertebrate Zoology 20: 307-342
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
Yanul V, Terekhova V, Polchaninova N (2022) New data to the rare spider species (Arachnida, Aranei) from Kyiv Region (Ukraine). Zoodiversity 56: 181-188
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