Nemastoma lugubre is an harvestmen species found in the whole of Europe from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.
Nemastoma lugubre | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
Class: | Arachnida |
Order: | Opiliones |
Family: | Nemastomatidae |
Genus: | Nemastoma |
Species: | N. lugubre
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Binomial name | |
Nemastoma lugubre (Müller, 1776)
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The body is small and rotund and 2.5 mm long. It is black with two large white, pale yellow cream-coloured or silver patches on the cephalothorax. Some specimens lack the patches and are entirely black. The legs are short.
Subspecies
edit- Nemastoma lugubre lugubre (Müller, 1776)
- Nemastoma lugubre bimaculatum (Fabricius, 1775) — Europe
- Nemastoma lugubre unicolor Roewer, 1914 — southern Europe