Brachythele

Brachythele
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Chelicerata
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Infraorder:	Mygalomorphae
Family:	Nemesiidae
Genus:	Brachythele Ausserer
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^[update], it contains about ten species from eastern Europe.

Species

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

• 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

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