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
Figures
Bulbus, ventral view
(Decae 2012)
Bulbus, dorsal view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Bulbus, lateral view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Bulbus, lateral view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Tip of bulbus, ventral view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Cymbium, dorsal view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Cymbium, dorsal view
(Decae & Caranhac 2025)
Vulva
(Blasco-Feliu 1986)
Distribution List
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 
Decae A E (2012) Geography-related sub-generic diversity within the Mediterranean trapdoor spider genus Nemesia (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 43: 24-28
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
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
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2