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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   70 species

Nemesia simoni  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001235

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Description
Male

Prosoma uniformly chocolate brown, head part distinctly elevated. Opisthosoma grey-brown with 4-5 dark, transverse spots.

Body length male: 10-15 mm
Female

Prosoma hairless. Chelicerae with black bristles. Legs: patellae and tibiae usually spineless. Opisthosoma dark brown, dorsum with transverse bands.

Body length female: 15-25 mm
Additional 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
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Spain, France
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Frade & Bacelar 1931b)

species

male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Frade & Bacelar 1931b)

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female Tip of pedipalp
(Simon 1914)

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female Vulva
(Blasco-Feliu 1986)

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female Vulva
(Zonstein 2017)

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female 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.

France   (no references) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2018) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

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 pdf

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 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2018) Checklist of the Italian spiders (version June 2018). pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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 pdf

Updates
25-03-2022 Image insert
08-04-2021 Distribution update Detail
08-01-2018 Image insert
29-12-2015 Image insert