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Genus: Menemerus Simon, 1868 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Menemerus congoensis Lessert, 1927

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034541

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Described:

Distribution: Sudan to South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town (SAMC), South Africa 1m of Menemerus hypenetes - (Wesołowska, 1999)
Lectotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027996) - (Wesołowska, 1999)
Paratype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 1m (ARTO-0027996) - (Lessert, 1927)

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) Original description

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. -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- 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. -- Show included taxa

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

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024