Menemerus semilimbatus explained

Menemerus semilimbatus is a spider in the family Salticidae.[1]

Description

Menemerus semilimbatus are about 6.5- long, the male being slightly smaller than the female. These fairly big jumping spiders are dorso-ventrally flattened and are covered with short dense, grayish-white hairs, with hairy whitish palps and a white band on the side margins of the carapace, showing also a small white, triangular marking in the middle. The eyes are large and forward-facing. The legs are light brown with darker rings and patches, while the abdomen is dorsally yellowish or grayish, with a characteristic pattern of several bright V-shaped markings. The females show a notch at the posterior edge of the epigyne and two oval depressions in the anterior half.[2]

Distribution

Menemerus semilimbatus is a Mediterranean species widely distributed in Europe, southern Asia and in Africa. In the Americas, it has been reported in Argentina, Chile, Ecuador and USA.[3] [2] [4]

Habitat

These spiders are synanthropic living in gardens and inside and on the outside of houses.[3] It is usually found on the walls of buildings where it stalks its prey.[5]

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id233442/ Biolib
  2. http://www.araneae.unibe.ch/data/2297/Menemerus_semilimbatus Araneae
  3. Andrés Taucare-Rios and G. B. Edwards First records of the jumping spider Menemerus semilimbatus (Araneae:Salticidae) in Chile
  4. https://web.archive.org/web/20150622112129/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=352741 Fauna europaea
  5. E.F. GUSEINOV Natural prey of the jumping spider Menemerus semilimbatus (Hahn, 1827) (Araneae: Salticidae), with notes on its unusual predatory behaviour