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Genus: Brachythele Ausserer, 1871 | Family: Nemesiidae Simon, 1889

Brachythele denieri (Simon, 1916)

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Described:

Distribution: Bulgaria, Greece

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Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France m - (Simon, 1916a)

Taxonomic References

Nemesia denieri Simon, 1916a: 273 (Dm) Original description

Nemesia denieri Fage, 1921a: 173, f. 1 (Df)

Nemesiothele denieri Drensky, 1937: 269, f. 7-8 (m)

Brachythele denieri Lazarov, Deltshev & Blagoev, 2001: 8, f. 3-4 (m)

Brachythele denieri Le Peru, 2011: 88, f. 39 (m)

Brachythele denieri Geci & Sherwood, 2025: 488, f. 3A-E (m)

References

Drensky, P. (1937). Faounata na paiatzite (Araneae) w Beulgaria. Podrazred Mygalomorphae: semeystwa Ctenizidae i Atypidae. Izvestiya na Tsarskite Prirodonauchni Instituti v Sofia 10: 259-280. -- Show included taxa

Fage, L. (1921a). Travaux scientifiques de l'Armee d'Orient (1916-1918). Arachnides. Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 27: 96-102, 173-177, 227-232. -- Show included taxa

Geci, D. & Sherwood, D. (2025). Contributions to the knowledge of trapdoor spiders: descriptions of Iberesia melici sp. nov., the female of Nemesia dukagjinica Geci & Sherwood, 2025, and new distribution records of some other European nemesiids (Araneae: Nemesiidae). Arachnology 20(3): 485-490. doi: 10.13156/arac.2024.20.3.17 -- Show included taxa

Lazarov, S., Deltshev, C. & Blagoev, G. (2001). The spiders (Araneae) of Sashtinska Sredna Gora Mountain (Bulgaria). Faunistic and zoogeographical analysis. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 53: 3-28. -- 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

Simon, E. (1916a). Liste des arachnides recueillis à Salonique pendant l'occupation française (1916) par le sargent Pierre Denier, membre de la Société. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 85: 273-276. -- 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
2025-11-02	First description of female	Fage, 1921a	Old value
2025-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Geci & Sherwood, 2025