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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia macrocephala Ausserer, 1871

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001224

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Description
Female

Prosoma brownish, covered with whitish hairs, cephalic part distinctly raised. Prosoma length: 10 mm. Legs: patella III with 2 prolateral spines, metatarsus III with 3 prolateral, 3 retrolateral and 5 ventral spines. Opisthosoma light brownish, with dark transverse stripes.

Body length female: 21-26 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Algeria: see Beladjal et al. (2025)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy (Sicily), Algeria?
Figures
species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Decae 2012)

species

female Vulva, ventral view
(Decae 2012)

species

female Spermathecae, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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female Spermathecae, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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female Labium, ventral view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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female Labium, ventral view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Cassar et al. 2022)

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.

Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Tunisia  Removed (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

Beladjal L, Bouseksou S, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Alioua Y, Bosmans R (2025) First exhaustive catalog of spiders of Algeria (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5598: 1-185 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

Decae A E (2012) Geography-related sub-generic diversity within the Mediterranean trapdoor spider genus Nemesia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 24-28 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 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
26-05-2025 Distribution insert Detail
25-03-2022 Image insert
19-03-2013 Image insert