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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Brachythele  Ausserer, 1871   11 species

Brachythele denieri (Simon, 1916)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001209

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Description
Male

Prosoma dark brown. Legs: patella I with 2 prolateral spines, patella III with 3 prolateral spines, tibia I with apical spur, and 2 stout spines, tibia IV with 3 pro- and 3 retrolateral spines and a dorsal spine. Opisthosoma densely covered with whitish hairs.

Body length male: 10 mm
Female

Female unknown.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Greece, Bulgaria
Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Lazarov et al. 2001)

species

male Bulbus
(Drensky 1937)

species

male Bulbus, prolateral view
(Geci & Sherwood 2025)

species

male Leg I, lateral view
(Drensky 1937)

species

male Tibial apophysis leg I, lateral view
(Lazarov et al. 2001)

species

male Tibial apophysis leg I, prolateral view
(Geci & Sherwood 2025)

species

male Tibial apophysis leg I, ventral view
(Geci & Sherwood 2025)

species

male Habitus, dorsal view
(Drensky 1937)

Distribution List
Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

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) pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Drensky P (1937) Faounata na paiatzite (Araneae) w Beulgaria. Podrazred Mygalomorphae: semeystwa Ctenizidae i Atypidae. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 10: 259-280 pdf

Geci D, Sherwood D (2025) Contributions to the knowledge of trapdoor spiders: descriptions of Iberesia melici sp. nov., the female of Nemesia dukagjinica Geci & Sherwood, 2025, and new distribution records of some other European nemesiids (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Arachnology 20: 485-490 pdf

Lazarov S, Deltshev C, Blagoev G (2001) The spiders (Araneae) of Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mountain (Bulgaria). Faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 53: 3-28 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-11-2025 Image insert
05-07-2022 Distribution update Detail
24-04-2018 Image insert
05-11-2015 Image insert