''Menneus'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
net-casting spiders that was first described by
Eugène Simon
Eugène Louis Simon (; 30 April 1848 – 17 November 1924) was a French naturalist who worked particularly on insects and spiders, but also on birds and plants. He is by far the most prolific spider Taxonomy (biology), taxonomist in history, ...
in 1876.
It includes the former genera ''Avella'' and ''Avellopsis''. Species are found in Australia,
New Caledonia
New Caledonia ( ; ) is a group of islands in the southwest Pacific Ocean, southwest of Vanuatu and east of Australia. Located from Metropolitan France, it forms a Overseas France#Sui generis collectivity, ''sui generis'' collectivity of t ...
, and eastern and southern Africa.
Originally placed with the
cribellate orb-weavers, it was moved to the Deinopidae in 1967.
Species
it contains fourteen species:
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Menneus aussie''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Caledonia
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Menneus bituberculatus''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Queensland), possibly New Guinea
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Menneus camelus''
Pocock, 1902 – South Africa
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Menneus capensis
''Menneus capensis'', also known as Cape camel-back spider, is a species of net-casting spider in the family Deinopidae. It is endemic to the Western Cape
The Western Cape ( ; , ) is a provinces of South Africa, province of South Africa, s ...
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(Purcell
Henry Purcell (, rare: ; September 1659 – 21 November 1695) was an English composer of Baroque music, most remembered for his more than 100 songs; a tragic opera, ''Dido and Aeneas''; and his incidental music to a version of Shakespeare's ...
, 1904) – South Africa
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Menneus darwini''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Tanzania
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Menneus dromedarius''
Purcell, 1904 – South Africa, Madagascar
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Menneus nemesio''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (New South Wales)
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Menneus neocaledonicus''
(Simon, 1888) – New Caledonia
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Menneus quasimodo''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
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Menneus samperi''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – East Africa
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Menneus superciliosus''
( Thorell, 1881) – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
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Menneus tetragnathoides''
Simon, 1876 (
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) – Angola, Malawi, Tanzania
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Menneus trinodosus''
Rainbow, 1920 – Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Is.)
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Menneus wa''
Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012 – Australia (Western Australia)
References
Araneomorphae genera
Deinopidae
Taxa named by Eugène Simon
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