Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   82 species

Nemesia caementaria (Latreille, 1799)

Description
Male

Prosoma brownish, covered with white hairs. Legs: tibia I with 3 spines on each side of spur; tibia IV with lateral and dorsal spines.

Body length male: 12 mm
Female

Prosoma brownish, with blackish markings. Legs: patella III without spines or with 1 spine; all tibiae with 2 lateral spines; metatarsus IV with ventral and retrolateral spines, as well as 2 prolateral spines. Opisthosoma with brown transverse markings.

Body length female: 17.5-20 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Records from outside of Spain and France should be confiremd (cf. Decae & Caranhac, 2025)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Southern Europe, Algeria
Adult males in autumn
Figures
Distribution List
Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023; Beladjal et al., 2025) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (Le Peru, 2007; Decae & Caranhac, 2025) ||| Greece  Removed (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Slovenia   (Kostanjšek & Kuntner, 2015) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019; Decae & Caranhac, 2025) |||
References

Beladjal L, Bouseksou S, Kherbouche-Abrous O, Alioua Y, Bosmans R (2025) First exhaustive catalog of spiders of Algeria (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5598: 1-185 pdf

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 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, Caranhac G (2025) The genus Nemesia Audouin 1826, the subgenus Pronemesia Simon 1914, and the problematic distinction between Nemesia caementaria (Latreille 1799) and Nemesia carminans (Latreille 1818) (Araneae: Mygalomorphae: Nemesiidae). Arachnology 20: 255-270 pdf

Kostanjšek R, Kuntner M (2015) Araneae Sloveniae: a national spider species checklist. ZooKeys 474: 1-91 pdf

Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. 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

Updates
05-07-2025 Image insert
01-07-2025 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2014 Distribution update Detail
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail
19-03-2013 Image insert
19-03-2013 Datasheet update Detail