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

Menemerus dubius Berland & Millot, 1941

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:053831

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Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Uganda

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026)

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Syntype: 2f (lost) - (Wesołowska, 1999)
Lectotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f [N.B.: this specimen cannot get a lectotype status, because it is collected in 1975; but a neotype status would be possible] - (Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022)

Taxonomic References

Menemerus dubius Berland & Millot, 1941: 348, f. 51 (Df) Original description

Menemerus dubius Wesołowska, 1999: 344 (nomen dubium)

Menemerus dubius Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 56, f. 34A-E (f, removed from nomen dubium)

Menemerus dubius Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025: 853, f. 42B-C, 43A-E (Dm)

References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- 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. & Henrard, A. (2025). New data on the jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Nimba Mountains, Guinea. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 75(3): 811-912. doi: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2025.75.3.010 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2022). Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 841: 1-143. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943 -- Show included taxa

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

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2025-10-01	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025
2025-10-01	First description of male	Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025	Old value
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value
2022-10-16	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-16	Species updated	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value	New status
2022-10-16	Species distribution update	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022	Old value