Genus Menemerus Simon, 1868
- Menemerus Simon, E. 1868. Monographie des espèces européennes de la famille des attides (Attidae Sundewall. — Saltigradae Latreille). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 4 8: 11-72, 529-726 [662].
Type species:
Attus semilimbatus Hahn, 1827 (=Menemerus heydnii Simon, 1868) by subsequent designation, see Thorell, T. 1869. On European Spiders. Part I. Review of the European Genera of Spiders, preceded by some views on Zoological Nomenclature. Nova Acta Regiae Societatis Scientiarum Upsaliensis 3 7(v): 1-242 [207, 214]. - Tapinattus Thorell, T. 1887. Viaggio di L. Fea in Birmania e regioni vicine. II. Primo saggio sui Ragni birmani. Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Genova 25: 5-417 [364].
Type species:
Tapinattus melanognathus Thorell, 1887 by original designation. - Camponia Badcock, A.D. 1932. Reports of an expedition to Paraguay and Brazil in 1926-1927 supported by the Trustees of the Percy Sladen Memorial Fund and the Executive Committee of the Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland. Arachnida from the Paraguayan Chaco. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 38: 1-48 [40].
Type species:
Camponia lineata Badcock, 1932 by monotypy. - Stridulattus Petrunkevitch, A. 1926. Spiders from the Virgin Islands. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences 28: 21-78 [74].
Type species:
Stridulattus stridulans Petrunkevitch, 1926 by monotypy.
Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy
- Simon, E. 1901. Histoire naturelle des Araignées. Paris : Encyclopédie Rorét Vol. 2(3) pp. 381-668 figs 384-792. [654] (of Tapinattus)
- Galiano, M.E. 1979. Nuevos sinonimos en la familia Salticidae (Araneae). Revista de la Sociedad Entomológica Argentina 37: 33-34 [33] (of Camponia)
- Jastrzebski, P. 1997. Salticidae from the Himalayas. Genus Menemerus Simon, 1868 (Araneae: Salticidae). Anais de Sociedade Entomológica do Brasil 20: 33-34 [41] (of Stridulatus)
Distribution
States
Queensland, Western Australia
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan.
IBRA
Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Gawler (GAW), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT) ; Qld, WA: Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), MacDonnell Ranges (MAC), Pilbara (PIL), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Wet Tropics (WT)
Other Regions
Coral Sea Islands Territory, Norfolk Island terrestrial & freshwater
Distribution References
Ecological Descriptors
Arthropod-feeder, carnivorous, predator.
General References
Harland, D.P., Jackson, R.R. & Macnab, A.M. 1999. Distances at which jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) distinguish between prey and conspecific rivals. Journal of Zoology, London 247: 357-364
Jackson, R.R. 1987. Comparative study of releaser pheromones associated with the silk of jumping spiders (Araneae, Salticidae). New Zealand Journal of Zoology 14: 1-10
Maddison, W.P. 2015. A phylogenetic classification of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 43: 231-292
Richardson, B.J., Whyte, R. & Zabka, M. 2019. A key to the genera of Australian jumping spiders (Aranaea: Salticidae). https://apps.lucidcentral.org/salticidae/
Richardson, B.J., Żabka, M., Gray, M.R. & Milledge, G. 2006. Distributional patterns of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) in Australia. Journal of Biogeography 33: 707-719 (Gives BIOCLIM predicted distribution of the genus)
Tiedemann, K. 1993. Visual brightness discrimination of the jumping spider Menemerus bivittatus (Araneae: Salticidae). Journal of Arachnology 21: 1-5
History of changes
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15-Oct-2020 | SALTICIDAE Blackwall, 1841 | 03-Jul-2017 | MODIFIED | Barry Richardson |
| 15-Oct-2020 | 20-Jun-2012 | MODIFIED | ||
| 15-Oct-2020 | 18-Aug-2011 | MODIFIED | ||
| 29-Nov-2010 | MODIFIED |