Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   77 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 2025): Southern Europe, Algeria
Adult males in autumn
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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.

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 (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) 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