Salticidae  Blackwall, 1841 / Menemerus  Simon, 1868   13 species

Menemerus animatus  O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876

Description
Male

Prosoma dorsally red-brown with wide white margin, otherwise with orange-brown hairs, head plate darker. Opisthosoma dorsally brown with light points, anteriomedially two white oval spots, posterior zigzag stain pattern. Palp: femur, patella and cymbium with white hairs, apophysis black, laterally pointed.

Body length male: 5.5 mm
Female

Prosoma and opisthosoma as in males, prosoma additionally with light grey hairs. Face with white hairs.

Body length female: 4.9 mm
Distribution
  Presence
  No data
Global distribution (WSC 2024): Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, North Africa, Sudan, Greece, Turkey, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Iraq
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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   (Prószyński, 1993; Benhacene et al., 2023) ||| Egypt   (Wesołowska, 1999) ||| Greece   (no references) ||| Libya   (Bosmans, unpubl.) ||| Turkey (Asia)   (Coşar & Danışman, 2023a) |||
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

Bosmans R. (unpubl.) Provisional list of spiders of North Africa. Database excerpt Aug. 2019

Coşar İ, Danışman T (2023a) First record of the jumping spider Menemerus animatus O. Pickard-Cambridge, 1876 in Türkiye (Araneae: Salticidae). Serket 19: 253-257 pdf

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

Prószyński J (1993) Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia II. Fauna Saudi Arabia 13: 27-54 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 (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
17-06-2023 Image insert
17-06-2023 Distribution insert Detail
21-09-2021 Image insert
21-09-2021 Distribution update Detail
19-07-2016 Datasheet update Detail