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Nemesiidae  Simon, 1889 / Nemesia  Audouin, 1826   81 species

Nemesia maculatipes Ausserer, 1871

Description
Male

Legs: metatarsus I ventrally with a blackish hump, covered with hairs; tarsus IV without dorsal spines.

Body length male: 8 mm
Female

Opisthosoma pale brown, with blackish pattern. Legs pale brownish, femora, patellae and tibiae in posterior area with blackish spots.

Body length female: 11 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: presumably endemic to Sardinia and probably Corsica (Decae & Di Franco 2005)
Global distribution (WSC 2026): France (Corsica), Italy (Sardinia), Morocco?
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Distribution List
France / Corsica   (Le Peru, 2007) ||| Italy   (Isaia et al., 2025) ||| Italy / Sardinia   (Isaia et al., 2025; Decae & Di Franco, 2005) ||| Morocco   (Benhalima & Bosmans, 2024) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) |||
References

Benhalima S, Bosmans R (2024) First historical checklist of spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Morocco, between 1840–2024. Zootaxa 5555: 407-535 pdf

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

Decae A E, Di Franco F (2005) Nemisia sanzoi Fage, 1917 (Araneae, Nemesiidae): first description of the male and some additional information on the female, distribution and biology of the species. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 13: 133-137 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

Simon E (1914) Les arachnides de France 6 (1). Paris (Roret): 1-308 pdf

WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (20.5.2026) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
10-08-2025 Distribution update Detail
26-05-2020 Distribution update Detail
29-12-2015 Image insert
02-10-2014 Image insert