Gnaphosidae  Banks, 1892 / Nomisia  Dalmas, 1921   19 species

Nomisia recepta (Pavesi, 1880)

Description

Body colouration yellow-orange. Prosoma with darker margins anf lateral spots, cephalic part with curved lines. Opisthosoma rather pale with pattern, sides darker with lighter spots.

Body length male: 5-5.7 mm
Body length female: 4.7-5.5 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Italy, Malta, Croatia, Albania, Cyprus, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt
Phenology
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Distribution List
Albania   (Vrenozi & Jäger, 2012) ||| Algeria   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Croatia   (Szinetár & Sule, 2025) ||| Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| France  Removed (Lecigne et al., 2022) ||| France / Corsica  Removed (Lecigne et al., 2022) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025; Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Libya   (Caporiacco, 1936b) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Tunisia   (Kmira et al., 2025) |||
References

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

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 pdf

Caporiacco L di (1936b) Aracnidi fezzanesi raccolti dal Prof. G. Scortecci nel 1934 - XII (Missione della R. Società Geografica). Atti della Società Italiana di Scienze Naturali e del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano 75: 67-94 pdf

Dalmas R de (1921) Monographie des Araignées de la section des Pterotricha (Araneae: Gnaphosidae). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 89: 233-328 pdf

Di Franco F (1987) Gnaphosidae (Arachnida, Araneae) dell'Isola di Salina (Isole Eolie). Animalia 13: 137-157 pdf

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 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

Kmira G, Nasri-Ammar, Petillon J, Bosmans R (2025) Catalog of the spiders of Tunisia (Arachnida: Araneae). Zootaxa 5641: 1-95 pdf

Lecigne S, Courtial C, Danflous S, Déjean S, Guerbaa K, Jacquet C, Montagne D, Montardi Y, Villepoux O (2022) De araneis Galliae IV, actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France - troisième note. Révision du statut de certaines espèces de la faune de France. Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 6: 3-38 pdf

Pantini P, Sassu A, Serra G (2013) Catalogue of the spiders (Arachnida Araneae) of Sardinia. Biodiversity Journal 4: 3-104 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

Szinetár C, Sule D (2025) New data on the spider fauna of Šolta island (2023-24). Some recent rare occurrences from Croatia. Bašćina 34: 268-275 pdf

Vrenozi B, Jäger P (2012) A faunistic study on ground-dwelling spiders (Araneae) in the Tirana district, Albania. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 44: 81-87 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

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