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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia pavani Dresco, 1978

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001232

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 6.5 mm. Legs: tibia I with prolateral, retrolateral and ventral spines, tibia IV without dorsal spines.

Body length male: 15 mm
Female

Prosoma and opisthosoma brownish, with dark faint pattern. Prosoma length: 6.5 mm. Legs: femora dorsally black; patellae, tibiae and metatarsi with some dark patches, patella III with 2 prolateral spines and 1 retrolateral spine.

Body length female: 15 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Prosoma, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Eyes, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Tibia I, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Tibia I, prolateral view
(Dresco 1978)

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male Tibia and metatarsus I, ventral view
(Dresco 1978)

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male Tibia IV, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Tibia IV, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Metatarsus I, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

male Metatarsus I, ventral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

female Prosoma, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

species

female Metatarsus IV, retrolateral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

female Metatarsus IV, ventral view
(Dresco 1978)

species

female Tarsal claw of leg IV
(Dresco 1978)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Dresco 1978)

Distribution List
Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) |||
References

Dresco E (1978) Etude des mygales. Description de Nemesia pavani sp. nov., mygale nouvelle de l'île de Montecristo, Italie (Araneae, Ctenizidae). Pubblicazioni dell'Istituto di Entomologia dell'Università di Pavia 6: 1-14 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 (2011) The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522 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
23-11-2015 Image insert