Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Menemerus  Simon, 1868   13 species

Menemerus taeniatus  (L. Koch, 1867)

Description

Prosoma with broad, grey-white stripe in the middle, sides brown-red. Opisthosoma with broad, grey-white stripe in the middle, laterally with broad black stripes.

Body length male: 6.1-8.5 mm
Body length female: 7.9-9.7 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Distribution comment: The Caucasus is the eastern border of its distribution (Rakov & Logunov, 1997b)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Mediterranean to Caucasus. Introduced to Argentina
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Distribution List

"No references" does not mean that the species does not occur in this country, but that we have not yet inserted the reference for it. We are working on it.

Algeria   (Wesołowska, 1999; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Azerbaijan   (Otto, 2022; Rakov & Logunov, 1997b) ||| Bulgaria   (Blagoev et al., 2018) ||| Croatia   (Milosevic, 2002) ||| France   (no references) ||| France / Corsica   (no references) ||| Georgia   (Otto, 2022; Rakov & Logunov, 1997b) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Italy   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Italy / Sicily   (Pantini & Isaia, 2019) ||| Malta   (Pfliegler et al., 2017) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Romania   (no references) ||| Russia, Southern   (Logunov & Ponomarev, 2020a; Rakov & Logunov, 1997b; Ponomarev, 2022) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain / Balearic Islands   (Branco et al., 2019; Schäfer, 2015) ||| Switzerland   (no references) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar & Danışman, 2022a) ||| Ukraine   (Rakov & Logunov, 1997b; Kovblyuk et al., 2016) |||
References

Benhacene R, Adjami A, Hadjeb A, Kermiche K, Ouakid M L (2023) Bibliographic checklist of the Algerian spider fauna (Araneae). Zootaxa 5352: 301-357 pdf

Blagoev G, Deltshev C, Lazarov S, Naumova M (2018) The spiders (Araneae) of Bulgaria. Version: August 2018. National Museum of Natural History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Online at http://www.nmnhs.com/spiders-bulgaria/ (accessed on 10.9.2018) pdf

Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254 pdf

Coşar İ, Danışman T (2022a) Two new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 17: 430-433 pdf

Febrer J B, Barrientos J A (2023) Arañas (Arachnida, Araneae) de Menorca (Islas Baleares, España). 5. Cinco nuevas citas. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 42: 245-250 pdf

Kovblyuk M M, Gnelitsa V A, Nadolny A A, Kastrygina Z A, Kukushkin, O V (2016) Spiders (Arachnida: Aranei) of the Karadag Nature Reserve (Crimea). Ekosystemy 3(33): 3-288 pdf

Logunov D V, Ponomarev A V (2020a) A new species of Dendryphantes C. L. Koch, 1837 (Araneae: Salticidae) from the Caucasus, with notes on the state of knowledge of the dendryphantines in the Old World. Arachnology 18: 329-332 pdf

Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279 pdf

Milosevic B (2002) Aranea – Popis vrsta – Checklist. Hrvatsko entomološko društvo – Inventar entomofaune Hrvatske [Aranea – List of species – Checklist. Croatian Entomological Society – Inventory of Croatian entomofauna]. pdf

Montardi Y (2020) De araneis Galliae IV. Actualisation du référentiel des araignées de France – deuxième note. Mise en synonymie de deux espèces du genre Menemerus (Salticidae). Bulletin de l'Association Française d'Arachnologie 5: 33-41 pdf

Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.

Pantini P, Isaia M (2019) Araneae.it: the online catalog of Italian spiders, with addenda on other arachnid orders occurring in Italy (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Palpigradi, Pseudoscorpionida, Scorpiones, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 51: 127-152 pdf

Pfliegler W A, Schönhofer A, Niedbała W, Vella P, Sciberras A, Vella A (2017) New records of mites (Acari) and harvestmen (Opiliones) from Malta with a preliminary checklist of Maltese Arachnida. Soil Organisms 89: 85-110 pdf

Ponomarev A V (2022) Spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) of the southeast of the Russian Plain: catalogue, the fauna specific features. SSC RAS Publishers, Rostov-on-Don, 640 pp. pdf

Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180 pdf

Rakov S Y, Logunov D V (1997b) Taxonomic notes on the genus Menemerus Simon, 1868 in the fauna of Middle Asia (Araneae, Salticidae). Proceedings of the 16th European Colloquium of Arachnology: 271-279 pdf

Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67 pdf

Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)

Wesołowska W (1999) A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10: 251-353 pdf

WSC (2024) World Spider Catalog. Version 25.0. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (22.01.2024) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

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