Taxon details

Family: Salticidae / Genus: Menemerus

Menemerus congoensis Lessert, 1927

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m
  • Last updated: 2024-09-06
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034541]
  • Distribution: Sudan to South Africa
Type deposit provide information
  • Lectotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland; m (Wesołowska, 1999)
  • Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa; 1m of Menemerus hypenetes (Wesołowska, 1999)
Taxonomic references
Mendoza carlinii Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 204, pl. 23, f. 6, 6b (m; misidentified per Wesołowska, 1999: 276).
Menemerus congoensis Lessert, 1927: 430, f. 17 (Dm).
Menemerus hypenetes Lawrence, 1928: 259, pl. 22, f. 40 (Dm) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062066].
Menemerus congoensis Wesołowska, 1999: 276, f. 62-77 (m, Df, S of Menemerus hypenetes).
Menemerus congoensis Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 68, f. 175-180 (m).
Menemerus congoensis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 66, f. 44A (f).
References

Lawrence, R. F. (1928). Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa VII. Arachnida (Part 2). Annals of the South African Museum 25: 217-312, pl. 21-24. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34: 405-475. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1999). A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10(2): 251-353. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi:10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 download pdf -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi:10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 download pdf -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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GBIF.org (2019). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [1 September 2019]

Metzner, H. (2019). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2016). Monograph of Salticidae (Araneae) of the World 1995-2015. Part II. Global Species Database of Salticidae (Araneae). Version October 30th, 2016, online at http://www.salticidae.pl. download pdf

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Date Type Reference Detail
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 n/a