Nemesia simoni O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874
Description
Male
Prosoma uniformly chocolate brown, head part distinctly elevated. Opisthosoma grey-brown with 4-5 dark, transverse spots.
Body length male: 10-15 mmFemale
Prosoma hairless. Chelicerae with black bristles. Legs: patellae and tibiae usually spineless. Opisthosoma dark brown, dorsum with transverse bands.
Body length female: 15-25 mmAdditional information
Females compact, males with long legs. In burrows up to 30 cm deep in damp, shadowed localities, burrow closed with thin door attached on one side and camouflaged with various particles
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp
(Frade & Bacelar 1931b)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Cassar et al. 2022)
Prosoma, dorsal view
(Frade & Bacelar 1931b)
Tip of pedipalp
(Simon 1914)
Vulva
(Blasco-Feliu 1986)
Vulva
(Zonstein 2017)
Vulva
(Zonstein 2017)
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
Blasco-Feliu A (1986) Les spermathèques des Nemesia (Araneae, Ctenizidae); valeur taxonomique de ce caractère. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 8(A1): 343-350 
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Cassar T, Mifsud D, Decae A E (2022) The Nemesia trapdoor spider fauna of the Maltese archipelago, with the description of two new species (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 806: 90-112
Frade M A, Bacelar A (1931b) Révision des Nemesia de la faune ibérique et description d'espèces nouvelles de ce genre. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (2) 3: 222-238
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018).
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Zonstein S L (2017) Notes on Nemesia and Iberesia in the J. Murphy spider collection of the Manchester Museum (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 47: 141-158