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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Amblyocarenum  Simon, 1892   4 species

Amblyocarenum walckenaeri (Lucas, 1846)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 7.6-10.15 mm.

Body length male: 16-20 mm
Female

Prosoma length: 8.25-10.4 mm.

Body length female: 24-30.1 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, Algeria, Tunisia, Italy (Sicily)
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Blasco-Feliu, 1985; Bosmans, 2003) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blasco-Feliu A (1985) Consideraciones taxonomicas sobre las especies ibericas del genero Amblyocarenum Simon 1892 (Araneae; Ctenizidae). Boletim da Sociedade Portuguesa de Entomologia 1985: 507-516 pdf

Bosmans R (2003) A checklist of the spiders of Tunisia, with description of a new species of Palliduphantes Saaristo & Tanasevitch (Araneae: Linyphiidae). Kaupia - Darmstädter Beiträge zur Naturgeschichte 12: 89-109 pdf

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

Buchli H H R (1966) Notes sur la mygale terricole Amblyocarenum simile (Ausserer 1871) (Arach., Araneae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 47: 11-22 pdf

Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204 pdf

Simon E (1892) Histoire naturelle des araignées. Paris, 1: 1-256 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-03-2025 Distribution update Detail
27-11-2023 Distribution insert Detail
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