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Genus: Kaemis Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993 | Family: Dysderidae C. L. Koch, 1837

Kaemis circe (Brignoli, 1975)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:004762

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Described:

Distribution: Italy

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Type Repository Provide information

Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO-0025557) -
Holotype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy m (Brignoli 79) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)
Paratype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy 1f (Brignoli 79) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Harpassa circe Brignoli, 1975d: 174, f. 8-11 (Dmf) Original description

Rhode circe Brignoli, 1983c: 178

Kaemis circe Deeleman-Reinhold, 1993a: 133 (T from Rhode)

Kaemis circe Gasparo, 1995: 181, f. 7-9 (m)

Kaemis circe Le Peru, 2011: 287, f. 477 (mf)

Kaemis circe Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018: 24, f. 3c (m)

References

Brignoli, P. M. (1975d). Ragni d'Italia. XXIII. Nuovi dati su alcune Haplogynae (Araneae). Bollettino della Società Entomologica Italiana 107: 170-178. -- Show included taxa

Brignoli, P. M. (1983c). A catalogue of the Araneae described between 1940 and 1981. Manchester University Press, 755 pp. -- Show included taxa

Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (1993a). The genus Rhode and the harpacteine genera Stalagtia, Folkia, Minotauria, and Kaemis (Araneae, Dysderidae) of Yugoslavia and Crete, with remarks on the genus Harpactea. Revue Arachnologique 10(6): 105-135. -- Show included taxa

Gasparo, F. (1995). Note sul genere Kaemis Deeleman-Reinhold, con descrizione di una nuova specie italiana (Araneae, Dysderidae). Gortania, Atti del Museo Friulano di Storia Naturale 16: 175-184. -- Show included taxa

Le Peru, B. (2011). The spiders of Europe, a synthesis of data: Volume 1 Atypidae to Theridiidae. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon 2: 1-522. -- Show included taxa

Pantini, P. & Mazzoleni, F. (2018). I ragni de Calabria (Arachnida Araneae). Rivista del Museo Civico di Scienze Naturali "Enrico Caffi", Bergamo 31: 11-69. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2018-04-20	New taxonomic reference entry	Pantini & Mazzoleni, 2018