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Dysderidae  C. L. Koch, 1837 / Kaemis  Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993   5 species

Kaemis circe (Brignoli, 1975)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004762

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Description
Male

Prosoma 0.87-1.1 mm long.

Body length male: 2-2.3 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown, 1-1.1 mm long. Legs yellowish.

Body length female: 2.9-3 mm
Additional information

In cork oak forests and oak forests. Altitude up to 1300 m.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy
Phenology
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
 male  female
Probably all the year.
Figures
species

male Pedipalp
(Brignoli 1975c)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Gasparo 1995)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Gasparo 1995)

species

male Bulbus, ventral view
(Gasparo 1995)

species

male Embolus
(Brignoli 1975c)

species

male Chelicera
(Brignoli 1975c)

species

female Vulva
(Brignoli 1975c)

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

Brignoli P M (1975c) Ragni d'Italia. XXIII. Nuovi dati su alcune Haplogynae (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 170-178 pdf

Gasparo F (1995) Note sul genere Kaemis Deeleman-Reinhold, con descrizione di una nuova specie italiana (Araneae, Dysderidae). Gortania, Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 16: 175-184 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 (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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