Brachythele

Brachythele
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Mygalomorphae
Family: Nemesiidae
Genus: Brachythele
Ausserer[1]
Type species
Brachythele icterica
Species

See text.

Brachythele is a genus of spiders in the family Nemesiidae. It was first described in 1871 by Ausserer. As of 2022, it contains about ten species from eastern Europe.[1]

Species

As of June 2026, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following species:[1]

  • Brachythele bentzieni Zonstein, 2007 — Greece
  • Brachythele denieri (Simon, 1916) — Greece, Bulgaria
  • Brachythele icterica (C. L. Koch, 1838) (type) — Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia
  • Brachythele incerta Ausserer, 1871 — Cyprus
  • Brachythele kosovarica Geci & Sherwood, 2025 — Kosovo
  • Brachythele langourovi Lazarov, 2005 — Bulgaria
  • Brachythele media Kulczyński, 1897 — Slovenia, Croatia, Albania
  • Brachythele rhodopensis (Dimitrov & Zonstein, 2022) — Bulgaria
  • Brachythele speculatrix Kulczyński, 1897 — SE Europe (Balkans)
  • Brachythele varrialei (Dalmas, 1920) — Eastern Europe
  • Brachythele zonsteini (Özkütük, Yağmur, Elverici, Gücel, Altunsoy & Kunt, 2022) — Turkey

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Nemesiidae". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2026-06-28.


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