Belongs within: Theridiidae.
Enoplognatha is a cosmopolitan genus of cobweb spiders that commonly have patterned abdomens. Males of this genus have large spines on the front margin of the chelicerae; females have a single tooth on the hind margin of the cheliceral furrow (Wunderlich 1976).
<==Enoplognatha Pavesi 1880W76 |--*E. ovata (Clerck 1757) [incl. Theridion redimitum (Linnaeus 1758)]W76 |--E. ambigua Kulczynski 1894W76 |--E. camtschadalica Kulczynski 1885W76 |--E. crucifera (Thorell 1875) [incl. E. maritima Simon 1884, E. schaufussi (Koch 1882)]W76 |--E. deserta Levy & Amitai 1981PO08 |--E. diversa (Blackwall 1859)W76 |--E. gemina Bosmans & Van Keer 1999PO08 |--E. hungarica Kolosvary 1934W76 |--E. intrepida (Sørensen 1898)PS08 |--E. jacksoni Schenkel 1927W76 |--E. japonica Bösenberg & Strand 1906W76 |--E. macrochelis Levy & Amitai 1981PO08 |--E. mandibularis (Lucas 1846) [incl. E. mandibularis nigrocincta Simon 1884]W76 |--E. marmorata (Hentz 1850)W76 |--E. mordax (Thorell 1875)W76 |--E. oelandica (Thorell 1875) [incl. Drepanodus corollatus Bertkau 1883, E. corollata]W76 |--E. robusta Simon 1884W76 |--E. sattleri Bösenberg 1895W76 |--E. selma Chamberlin & Ivie 1946W76 |--E. serratostignata (Koch 1879)W76 |--E. tecta (Keyserling 1884)W76 |--E. testacea Simon 1884W76 |--E. thoracica (Hahn 1833)BBM02 |--E. thoracicoides Nosek 1905W76 `--E. transiversifoveata (Bösenberg & Strand 1906) [=Teutana transiversifoveata]W76
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[BBM02] Bonte, D., L. Baert & J.-P. Maelfait. 2002. Spider assemblage structure and stability in a heterogeneous coastal dune system (Belgium). Journal of Arachnology 30 (2): 331–343.
[PS08] Pinzón, J., & J. Spence. 2008. Performance of two arboreal pitfall trap designs in sampling cursorial spiders from tree trunks. Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 280–286.
[PO08] Pluess, T., I. Opatovsky, E. Gavish-Regev, Y. Lubin & M. H. Schmidt. 2008. Spiders in wheat fields and semi-desert in the Negev (Israel). Journal of Arachnology 36 (2): 368–373.
[W76] Wunderlich, J. 1976. Zur Spinnenfauna Deutschlands, XVI. Zur Kenntnis der mitteleuropäischen Arten der Gattungen Enoplognatha Pavesi und Robertus O. Pick.-Cambridge (Araneida: Theridiidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 57 (1–3): 97–112.