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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

"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.

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 (13.2.2026) 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