Menneus

Menneus is a genus of net-casting spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1876.[3] It includes the former genera Avella and Avellopsis. Species are found in Australia, New Caledonia, and eastern and southern Africa.[1] Originally placed with the cribellate orb-weavers, it was moved to the Deinopidae in 1967.[4]

Menneus
Temporal range: Palaeogene–present
M. nemesio
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Deinopidae
Genus: Menneus
Simon, 1876[1]
Type species
M. tetragnathoides
Simon, 1876
Species

14, see text

Synonyms[1][2]

Species

As of May 2019 it contains fourteen species:[1]

  • 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)

References
  1. Gloor, Daniel; Nentwig, Wolfgang; Blick, Theo; Kropf, Christian (2019). "Gen. Menneus Simon, 1876". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-31.
  2. 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: 12.
  3. Simon, E. (1876). "Etude sur le arachnides du Congo". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 1: 215–224.
  4. 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.


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