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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Brachythele  Ausserer, 1871   11 species

Brachythele icterica (C. L. Koch, 1838)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001089

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Description
Male

Prosoma length: 6.5 mm. Legs: all femora with spines, patella I with 1 prolateral spine, patella II with 2 prolateral spines, all tibiae with 10 or more spines, tarsus III with 2 spines, tarsus IV with 4 spines, tarsi I-IV and anterior metatarsi with scopula.

Body length male: 16 mm
Female

Prosoma yellowish brown. Prosoma length:  7.5 mm. Legs yellowish brown, tibia I with 4 spines, other tibiae with 8 or more spines, tarsi I-III and matatarsi I-II with scopula. Opisthosoma greyish.

Body length female: 15.5-16 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2026): Croatia, North Macedonia, Greece
Phenology
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Figures
species

male Eyes, frontal view
(C. L. Koch 1838)

species

male Habitus
(C. L. Koch 1838)

species

female Eyes, dorsal view
(Giltay 1932)

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.

Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| Greece   (Bosmans & Chatzaki, 2005) ||| Italy  Removed (Isaia et al., 2025; Pantini & Isaia, 2021) ||| North Macedonia   (Blagoev, 2002) |||
References

Blagoev G (2002) Check list of Macedonian spiders (Araneae). Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 54: 9-34 pdf

Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124 pdf

Giltay L (1932) Arachnides recueillis par M. d'Orchymont au cours de ses voyages aux Balkans et en Asie Mineure en 1929, 1930 et 1931. Bulletin du Musée Royal d'Histoire Naturelle de Belgique 8(22): 1-40 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

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

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Pantini P, Isaia M (2021) Araneae.it. The catalog of the Italian apiders. 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
05-07-2022 Distribution update Detail
08-04-2021 Distribution update Detail
05-11-2015 Image insert