Nemastoma lugubre

Nemastoma lugubre
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Arachnida
Order: Opiliones
Suborder: Dyspnoi
Family: Nemastomatidae
Genus: Nemastoma
Species: N. lugubre
Binomial name
Nemastoma lugubre
(Müller, 1776)

Nemastoma lugubre is an harvestmen species found in the whole of Europe from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.

The body is small and rotund and 2.5mms. long. It is black with two large white, pale yellow cream-coloured or silver patches on the cephalothorax. Some specimens lack the patchesand are entirely black. The legs are short.

Subspecies

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