Menneus is a genus of net-casting spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1876.[4] It includes the former genera Avella and Avellopsis. Species are found in Australia, New Caledonia, and eastern and southern Africa.[2] Originally placed with the cribellate orb-weavers, it was moved to the Deinopidae in 1967.[5]
Species
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M. camelus -
M. capensis -
M. dromedarius
Species
As of September 2025, this genus includes 14 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, 1877 – Angola, Malawi, Tanzania (type species)
- Menneus trinodosus Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island)
- Menneus wa Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
References
- ^ a b “Genus Menneus”. World Spider Catalog. Retrieved 25 September 2025.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ a b c 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.
- ^ Simon, E. (1876). “Etude sur le arachnides du Congo”. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 1: 215–224.
- ^ 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.
