Enoplognatha mandibularis (Lucas, 1846)
Description
Male palp with large basal tubercles on radix. Conductor with simple, short tip. Embolus short. Epigyne with approximately heart-shaped epigynal groove, ± as wide as long, with unsclerotised posterior margin, paler than the sclerotised depression. Prosoma light brown. Sternum black-brown. Chelicerae brown. Legs light brown, sometimes with darker rings. Opisthosoma blackish, ventrally unicoloured, dorsally with large, grey-yellow folium, which shows large, black spots on sides and in heart region.
Body length male: 2.2-6 mmBody length female: 2.4-8 mm
Additional information
biology not certainly known, because often confused with similar species
Distribution
Phenology
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Figures
Pedipalp
(Wiehle 1937)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Azheganova 1968)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Pedipalp
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Pedipalp
(Roberts 1995)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Cortés-Fossati & Pinilla Rosa 2023)
Tip of pedipalp
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Wiehle 1937)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Epigyne
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Epigyne
(Roberts 1995)
Epigyne
(Wiehle 1937)
Epigyne
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Vulva, ventral view
(Bosmans & Van Keer 1999)
Vulva
(Wiehle 1937)
Chelicerae, ventral view
(Locket & Millidge 1953)
Habitus
(Wiehle 1937)
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
Azheganova N S (1968) Kratkii opredelitel' paukov (Aranei) lesnoi i lesostepnoi zony SSSR. Akademia Nauk SSSR, 149pp. 
Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357
Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018)
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. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Cortés-Fossati F, Pinilla Rosa M (2023) Enoplognatha mandibularis (Lucas, 1846) (Araneae, Theridiidae), nueva adición al catálogo aracnológico de la comunidad de Madrid. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 243-244
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Locket G H, Millidge A F (1953) British spiders. Vol. II. Ray Society, London, 449 pp.
Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna].
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
Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110
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.
Roberts M J (1995) Collins Field Guide: Spiders of Britain & Northern Europe. HarperCollins, London, 383 pp.
Samu F, Szinetár C (1999) Bibliographic check list of the Hungarian spider fauna. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 11: 161-184
Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87
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
Updates
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