Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Menemerus  Simon, 1868   13 species

Menemerus illigeri  (Audouin, 1826)

Description
Male

Palpal femur basally with long ventral hook, tibial apophysis a thin broad plate. Embolus appears to be broken, bent apically almost 90°. Prosomalänge: 2.96 mm.

Female

Epigyne: Copulatory openings hidden under sclerotised hood, slerotised pockets in posterior part form a prominent circle. Prosoma length: 2.96 mm.

Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2025): Portugal, North Africa, Middle East, St. Helena
Phenology
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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   (Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (Wesołowska, 1999; El-Hennawy, 2017a) ||| Libya   (Elkrew et al., 2024) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Tunisia   (Wesołowska, 1999) |||
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

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

El-Hennawy H K (2017a) A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). Serket 15: 167-183 pdf

Elkrew H, Hamza A, Ghana S, Shaibi T, Swehli A I, Elmareme H, Ahmad A (2024) Checklist of the spiders (Araneae) of Libya. Pakistan Journal of Life and Social Sciences 22: 19346-19369 pdf

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

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

WSC (2025) World Spider Catalog. Version 26. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (28.2.2025) doi: 10.24436/2 pdf

Updates
04-06-2025 Distribution update Detail
16-03-2022 Distribution update Detail
20-05-2014 Image insert
27-08-2013 Datasheet update Detail
27-08-2013 Image insert