Nemesia dubia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874
Description
Male
Prosoma brownish, covered with yellowish white pubescence. Legs: femora dorsally darker, metatarsus I with 2 retrolateral spines, tibia I with 2-3 prolateral, 2 retrolateral and 3-5 ventral spines, tibia IV with lateral and ventral spines.
Body length male: 10-12 mmFemale
Prosoma brownish, with indistinct patterm, partly covered with white pubescence. Legs: metatarsus IV with 2 prolateral and 7-8 ventral spines. Opisthosoma light brown, dorsum with dentate longitudinal band and oblique lateral lines.
Body length female: 15 mmAdditional information
In citrus groves
Distribution
Figures
Bulbus
(Blasco 1986)
Vulva
(Blasco 1986)
Metatarsus I
(Simon 1914)
Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Simon 1914)
Distribution List
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 
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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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Mestre L, Piñol J, Barrientos J A, Cama A, Espadaler X (2012) Effects of ant competition and bird predation on the spider assemblage of a citrus grove. Basic and Applied Ecology 13: 355-362
Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
Updates
| 10-08-2025 | Distribution update | Detail |
| 29-12-2015 | Image insert |