Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Brachythele  Ausserer, 1871   10 species

Brachythele icterica  (C. L. Koch, 1838)

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 6.5 mm. Legs: all femora with spines, patella I with 1 prolateral spine, patella II with 2 prolateral spines, all tibiae with 10 or more spines, tarsus III with 2 spines, tarsus IV with 4 spines, tarsi I-IV and anterior metatarsi with scopula.

Body length male: 16 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown. Prosoma length:  7.5 mm. Legs yellowish brown, tibia I with 4 spines, other tibiae with 8 or more spines, tarsi I-III and matatarsi I-II with scopula. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 15.5-16 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Croatia, North Macedonia
Phenology
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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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy  Removed (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Pantini & Isaia, 2021) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) |||
References

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

Giltay L (1932) Arachnides recueillis par M. d'Orchymont au cours de ses voyages aux Balkans et en Asie Mineure en 1929, 1930 et 1931. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 8(22): 1-40 pdf

Koch C L (1838) Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 1-124 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2021) Araneae.it. The catalog of the Italian apiders. 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

Updates
05-07-2022 Distribution update Detail
08-04-2021 Distribution update Detail
05-11-2015 Image insert