Menneus Explained

Menneus is a genus of net-casting spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1876.^[1] It includes the former genera Avella and Avellopsis. Species are found in Australia, New Caledonia, and eastern and southern Africa. Originally placed with the cribellate orb-weavers, it was moved to the Deinopidae in 1967.^[2]

Species

it contains fourteen species:^[3]

• Menneus aussie Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Caledonia
• Menneus bituberculatus Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Queensland), possibly New Guinea
• Menneus camelus Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
• Menneus capensis (Purcell, 1904) – South Africa
• Menneus darwini Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Tanzania
• Menneus dromedarius Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Madagascar
• Menneus nemesio Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (New South Wales)
• Menneus neocaledonicus (Simon, 1888) – New Caledonia
• Menneus quasimodo Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
• Menneus samperi Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – East Africa
• Menneus superciliosus (Thorell, 1881) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
• Menneus tetragnathoides Simon, 1876 (type) – Angola, Malawi, Tanzania
• Menneus trinodosus Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
• Menneus wa Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)

Notes and References

1. Simon. E.. 1876. Etude sur le arachnides du Congo.. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 215–224. 1.
2. Lehtinen. P. T.. 1967. Classification of the cribellate spiders and some allied families, with notes on the evolution of the suborder Araneomorpha. Annales Zoologici Fennici. 4. 217.
3. Gen. Menneus Simon, 1876. World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. 2019-05-31. 2019. Natural History Museum Bern. 10.24436/2. Gloor. Daniel. Nentwig. Wolfgang. Blick. Theo. Kropf. Christian.