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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia dubia O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1874

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001212

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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 mm
Female

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 mm
Additional information

In citrus groves

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France
Figures
species

male Bulbus
(Blasco 1986)

species

female Vulva
(Blasco 1986)

species

female Metatarsus I
(Simon 1914)

species

female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Simon 1914)

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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
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 pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 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 (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 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

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 pdf

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 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
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2015 Image insert