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Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Menemerus  Simon, 1868   13 species

Menemerus bivittatus  (Dufour, 1831)

WSC LSID urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034535

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Description
Male

Prosoma brow or dark brown, lighter hairs forming a median longitudinal strip and both sides appear as dark bands. Sternum brown. Chelicerae dark brown. Legs yellowish-brown, darkly annulated. Opisthosoma covered with yellow or brown hairs, usually with a dark median band.

Body length male: 5.0-7.0 mm
Female

Pro- and opisthosoma with a dark stripe, lighter between. Opisthosoma dorsally with irregular pattern, ventrally yellowish. Legs yellow, darkly annulated. 

Body length female: 6.0-9.0 mm
Additional information

Often close to buildings.

This species of tropical African origin is not native to Europe (alien species). It had been introduced to Europe at least once and did establish.

Distribution
  Presence
  Not established
  No data
Distribution comment: Record from Italy doubtful (P. Pantini pers. comm.)
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Africa. Introduced to North, Central and South America, St. Helena, southern Europe, Turkey, India, China, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Australia, Pacific Is.
Figures
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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Simon 1937)

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male Pedipalp, ventral view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Pedipalp, ventro-lateral view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Palpal femur
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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male Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Simon 1937)

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female Epigyne
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Epigyne/vulva
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Epigyne
(Coşar & Danışman 2022a)

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female Vulva
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Vulva, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2022a)

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female Spermatheca
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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female Opisthosoma, dorsal view
(Wesołowska 1999)

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.

Cyprus   (Bosmans et al., 2019c) ||| Egypt   (Wesołowska, 1999) ||| France   (no references) ||| Italy  Removed (no references) ||| Portugal   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Spain   (Branco et al., 2019) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar & Danışman, 2022a) ||| United Kingdom   (Lavery, 2019; Wilson, 2012) |||
References

Bosmans R, Van Keer J, Russell-Smith A, Hadjiconstantis M, Komnenov M, Bosselaers J, Huber S, McCowan D, Snazell R, Decae A, Zoumides C, Kielhorn K-H, Oger P (2019c) Spiders of Cyprus (Araneae). A catalogue of all currently known species from Cyprus. Newsletter of the Belgian Arachnological Society 34, Suppl. 1: 1-173 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

Lavery A (2019) A revised checklist of the spiders of Great Britain and Ireland. Arachnology 18: 196-212 pdf

Simon E (1937) Les arachnides de France 6 (5). Paris (Roret): 979-1298 pdf

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

Wilson R (2012) An American jumper in Leeds, west Yorkshire and an update on non-native taxa recorded in the UK. Newsletter of the British Arachnological Society 123: 10-15 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

Updates
02-07-2024 Distribution update Detail
16-01-2023 Datasheet update Detail
11-01-2022 Image insert
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