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

Brachythele media Kulczyński, 1897

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:001093

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Described:

Distribution: Slovenia, Croatia, Albania

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Holotype: Museum and Institute of Zoology (MIZ), Polish Academy of Science (PAN), Warsaw, Poland f - (Dimitrov & Zonstein, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Brachythele media Kulczyński in Chyzer & Kulczyński, 1897: 283 (Df) Original description

Brachythele (?) media Polenec, 1978a: 371, f. 1-3 (Dm)

Brachythele media Le Peru, 2011: 88, f. 43 (m)

Brachythele media Naumova, Hristovski & Hristov, 2016: 505, f. 2A, 3A-B (f)

Brachythele media Dimitrov & Zonstein, 2022: 587, f. 16-25 (m)

Brachythele media Geci & Sherwood, 2025: 488, f. 3F-J (m)

References

Chyzer, C. & Kulczyński, W. (1897). Araneae Hungariae. Tomus II. Academia Scientarum Hungaricae Budapest, pp. 147-366, Pl. VI-X. -- Show included taxa

Dimitrov, Di. & Zonstein, S. L. (2022). A taxonomic contribution to the genus Brachythele Ausserer, 1871 (Araneae, Nemesiidae) with a description of a new species from Rhodope Mountains, Bulgaria. Zootaxa 5159(4): 583-592. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5159.4.7 -- 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

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

Naumova, M., Hristovski, S. & Hristov, G. H. (2016). Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Prespa National Park, Albania. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 68(4): 503-511. -- Show included taxa

Polenec, A. (1978a). Zusammensetzung und Besonderheiten der Epigäischen Spinnenfauna des Seslerio-Ostryetum am Berge Slavnik (1028 m) (Nord-Istrien, Jugoslawien). Symposia of the Zoological Society of London 42: 367-377. -- 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
2025-11-02	New taxonomic reference entry	Geci & Sherwood, 2025
2022-07-05	New taxonomic reference entry	Dimitrov & Zonstein, 2022
2017-01-19	New taxonomic reference entry	Naumova, Hristovski & Hristov, 2016
2017-01-19	Species distribution update	Naumova, Hristovski & Hristov, 2016	Old value