Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia manderstjernae L. Koch, 1871

Description
Male

Prosoma length: 6.5 mm. Legs: femora with dark dorsal and ventral stripes.

Female

Cephalic part brownish. Legs: patella III with 3 prolateral spines, metatarsus II with 2 ventral-apical spines, metatarsus IV without prolateral spines. Opisthosoma browish, dorsum with reticulate pattern.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Spain, France, Italy
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Distribution List
France   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Pantini et al., 2013; Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

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

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

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

Updates
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
10-08-2025 Distribution insert Detail
06-05-2021 Gallery image insert
25-06-2013 Distribution update Detail
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