Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia eleanora O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1873

Description
Male

Legs: femora dorsally darker, patella I with 1 prolateral spine, tibia IV with prolateral, retrolateral and ventral spines.

Female

Prosoma brownish, with indistinct pattern. Legs: femora apically daker or with a dark blotch, patellae I-II usually with brown blotch, metatarsus II apically with 3 ventral spines.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Figures
Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Blasco A (1986) El género Nemesia Audouin 1925 [sic]. (Arachnida: Ctenizidae) en Cataluña. Publicaciones del Departamento de Zoología, Universidad de Barcelona 12: 41-49 pdf

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

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
24-11-2015 Image insert