Taxon details

Family: Deinopidae / Genus: Menneus

Menneus capensis (Purcell, 1904)

  • Rank: Species
  • Status: accepted
  • Described: m f
  • Last updated: 2022-06-27
  • LSID: [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:006161]
  • Distribution: South Africa
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Type deposit: provide information
Taxonomic references
Avellopsis capensis Purcell, 1904: 128 (Dmf).
Avellopsis capensis Lehtinen, 1967: 434, f. 37 (m).
Menneus capensis Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012: 15, f. 1A-C, 14D-F, 20A-L (mf).
Menneus capensis Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020f: 13, p. 10: 1 f., p. 13: 4 f. [v. 2: 3 f.] (f habitus).
References

Coddington, J. A., Kuntner, M. & Opell, B. D. (2012). Systematics of the spider family Deinopidae with a revision of the genus Menneus. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 636: 1-61. download pdf -- Show included taxa

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Foord, S. H. & Lotz, L. N. (2020f). The Deinopidae of South Africa. Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 16 pp. [the 2nd pdf is version 2 from 2022, which differs only slightly and has no different doi] doi:10.5281/zenodo.6326965 download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

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: 199-468. [second pdf: index and outline by V. D. Roth (unpubl.)] download pdf download pdf -- Show included taxa

Purcell, W. F. (1904). Descriptions of new genera and species of South African spiders. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society 15: 115-173, pl. 10-11. 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]

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2022-06-27 New taxonomic reference entry Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2020f n/a