''Nemoscolus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
orb-weaver spiders first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1895.
Species
it contains fifteen species, all found in
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent after Asia. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 20% of Earth's land area and 6% of its total surfac ...
except for ''N. laurae'', found in the western Mediterranean:
*''
Nemoscolus affinis''
Lessert, 1933 – Congo
*''
Nemoscolus caudifer''
Strand
Strand or The Strand may refer to:
Topography
*The flat area of land bordering a body of water, a:
** Beach
** Shoreline
* Strand swamp, a type of swamp habitat in Florida
Places Africa
* Strand, Western Cape, a seaside town in South Africa
* ...
, 1906 – West Africa
*''
Nemoscolus cotti''
Lessert, 1933 – Mozambique
*''
Nemoscolus elongatus''
Lawrence, 1947 – South Africa
*''
Nemoscolus kolosvaryi''
Caporiacco
Ludovico di Caporiacco (22 January 1900, in Udine – 18 July 1951, in Parma) was an Italian arachnologist.
Caporiacco took part in an expedition to the Jebel Uweinat, a mountain massif in the boundary region of Sudan, Libya, and Egypt. On the mi ...
, 1947 – Uganda
*''
Nemoscolus lateplagiatis''
Simon, 1907 – Guinea-Bissau
*''
Nemoscolus laurae''
(Simon, 1868) – Western Mediterranean
*''
Nemoscolus niger''
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''
Berland Berland is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
*André Berland (1940–2025), French historian and biographer
*Bjørn Berland (born 1977), Norwegian footballer
*Eliezer Berland (born 1937), Israeli Breslov rabbi
*François Berléan ...
, 1933 – Mali
*''
Nemoscolus vigintipunctatus
''Nemoscolus'' is a genus of Araneidae, 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'' ...
''
Simon, 1897 – South Africa
*''
Nemoscolus waterloti''
Berland, 1920 – Madagascar
References
Araneidae
Araneidae genera
Spiders of Africa
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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