''Nemoscolus'' is a
genus
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of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
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in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in
Africa
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except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*''
Nemoscolus affinis''
Lessert, 1933 – Congo
*''
Nemoscolus caudifer''
Strand
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, 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
''Nemoscolus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in Africa except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*'' Nemoscolus affinis'' Lessert, ...
''
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
''Nemoscolus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in Africa except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*'' Nemoscolus affinis'' Lessert, ...
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, 1933 – Mali
*''
Nemoscolus vigintipunctatus
''Nemoscolus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in Africa except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*'' Nemoscolus affinis'' Lessert, ...
''
Simon, 1897 – South Africa
*''
Nemoscolus waterloti
''Nemoscolus'' is a genus of orb-weaver spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in Africa except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*'' Nemoscolus affinis'' Lessert, ...
''
Berland, 1920 – Madagascar
References
Araneidae
Araneomorphae genera
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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