Nemoscolus is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.[2]
| Nemoscolus | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Araneidae |
| Genus: | Nemoscolus Simon, 1895[1] |
| Type species | |
| N. laurae (Simon, 1868)
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| Species | |
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15, see text | |
Species edit
As of April 2019[update] it contains fifteen species, all found in Africa except for N. laurae, found in the western Mediterranean:[1]
- Nemoscolus affinis Lessert, 1933 – Congo
- Nemoscolus caudifer Strand, 1906 – West Africa
- Nemoscolus cotti Lessert, 1933 – Mozambique
- Nemoscolus elongatus Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
- Nemoscolus kolosvaryi Caporiacco, 1947 – Uganda
- Nemoscolus lateplagiatis Simon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau
- Nemoscolus laurae (Simon, 1868) – Western Mediterranean
- Nemoscolus niger Caporiacco, 1936 – Libya
- Nemoscolus obscurus Simon, 1897 – South Africa
- Nemoscolus rectifrons Roewer, 1961 – Senegal
- Nemoscolus semilugens Denis, 1966 – Libya
- Nemoscolus tubicola (Simon, 1887) – South Africa
- Nemoscolus turricola Berland, 1933 – Mali
- Nemoscolus vigintipunctatus Simon, 1897 – South Africa
- Nemoscolus waterloti Berland, 1920 – Madagascar
References edit
- ^ a b "Gen. Nemoscolus Simon, 1895". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
- ^ Simon, E (1895). Histoire naturelle des araignées. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.51973.
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