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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia uncinata Bacelar, 1933

Description
Male

Colouration as in females. Prosoma length: 6.6 mm.

Body length male: 14.8 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown, with dark marginal line and darker marks, anterior part covered with silvery pubescence, cephalic part raised. Prosoma length: 7.7-8.6 mm. Chelicerae dark brown. Opisthosoma yellowish to greyish.

Body length female: 20-23 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Portugal, Spain, Morocco
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Distribution List
Morocco   (Ouakri et al., 2026) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Barrientos J A, García-Sarrión R, Uribarri I, Prieto C E, Lozano J A (2019c) Algunas arañas (Araneae) del Monte Valcorchero (Plasencia, Cáceres, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 34: 87-96 pdf

Barrientos J A, Moya J, García-Sarrión R, Uribarri I, Melic A, Prieto C E, Moraza M L, Zaragoza J A (2017) Arácnidos del Parque Natural de Cabo de Gata-Níjar (Almería, España). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 30: 107-138 pdf

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

Decae A, Cardoso P, Selden P (2007) Taxonomic review of the Portuguese Nemesiidae (Araneae, Mygalomorphae). Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 14: 1-18 pdf

Ouakri N, Lecigne S, Abou Oualid J, Dugon M (2026) Spiders from the Arganeraie Biosphere Reserve of Souss-Massa region (Morocco), and descriptions of two new species (Arachnida: Araneae: Gnaphosidae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 1051: 1-50 pdf

Pertegal C, Molero-Baltanás R (2022) Description of a new trapdoor spider species, Nemesia amicitia spec. nov., from southern Spain, and new information on Nemesia uncinata (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 1-13 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
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