Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   77 species

Nemesia carminans  (Latreille, 1818)

Description
Male

Prosoma reddish brown, covered with whitish pubescence. Legs: tibia I with 2 spines on each side of the spur, tibia IV with lateral and 5-6 dorsal spines.

Female

Prosoma brownish, with dark pattern, cephalic part black. Legs: patella III without spines or with 1 spine, tibia I with 1 sometimes with 2 lateral spines, metatarsus IV with ventral and retrolateral spines, and 2 prolateral spines. Opisthosoma brownish, with indistinct pattern.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The record from Corsica should be confirmed (cf. Decae & Caranhac, 2025)
Global distribution (WSC 2025): France, Italy
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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.

France   (Le Peru, 2007; Decae & Caranhac, 2025) ||| France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019; Decae & Caranhac, 2025) |||
References

Blasco-Feliu A (1986) Les spermathèques des Nemesia (Araneae, Ctenizidae); valeur taxonomique de ce caractère. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (4) 8(A1): 343-350 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

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

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 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
11-02-2016 Datasheet update Detail
29-12-2015 Image insert
19-03-2013 Image insert