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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia africana (C. L. Koch, 1838)

Description
Female

Prosoma light brown, brown at the sides. Legs dark yellow. Opisthosoma brown-red-yellow, with marble-like dark brown curved lines. Chelicerae brown-red. Resembles Cyrtocarenum grajum. But palp somewhat shorter and leg IV slightly longer.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: Spain: not confirmed by Zonstein (2019), therefore removed
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Algeria
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Distribution List
Algeria   (Zonstein, 2019; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Italy / Sardinia  Removed (Pantini et al., 2013) ||| Spain  Removed (Branco et al., 2019; Zonstein, 2019) |||
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

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Calvo García M (2021) Nemesia qarthadasht sp. n., especie nueva de Nemesia Audouin, 1826 (Araneae, Mygalomorphae, Nemesiidae) de la Península Ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 39: 17-28 pdf

Koch C L (1838) Die Arachniden. Nürnberg, Fünfter Band, pp. 1-124 pdf

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

Zonstein S L (2019) New data on the spider genus Nemesia in Algeria (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Israel Journal of Entomology 49: 69-130 pdf

Updates
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10-01-2022 Distribution update Detail
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13-06-2016 Datasheet update Detail
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25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail