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 mmBody length female: 7.9-9.7 mm
Distribution
Figures
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Metzner 1999)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Prószyński 2003)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp, ventro-prolateral view
(Montardi 2020)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp with tibia, patella and femur, retrolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, prolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, retrolateral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Pedipalp, ventral view
(Quevedo-Ortiz & Pinilla Rosa 2024b)
Bulbus, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Prószyński 2003)
Palpal tibia, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Habitus
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne
(Metzner 1999)
Epigyne, ventral view
(Prószyński 2003)
Epigyne
(Montardi 2020)
Epigyne
(Montardi 2020)
Epigyne
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Epigyne
(Coşar & Danışman 2022a)
Epigyne
(Febrer & Barrientos 2023)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Metzner 1999)
Vulva, ventral view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, posterior view
(Taberlet unpubl.)
Vulva, dorsal view
(Coşar & Danışman 2022a)
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.
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 
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)
Bosmans R, Chatzaki M (2005) A catalogue of the spiders of Greece – a critical review of all spider species cited from Greece with their localities. Nieuwsbrief van de Belgische arachnologische Vereniging 20 (2, suppl.): 1-124
Branco V V, Morano E, Cardoso P (2019) An update to the Iberian spider checklist (Araneae). Zootaxa 4614: 201-254
Coşar İ, Danışman T (2022a) Two new records for the spider fauna of Turkey (Araneae: Salticidae). Munis Entomology and Zoology 17: 430-433
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
Isaia M, Tolve M, Pantini P (2025) Araneae.it: 2.0: the new updated version of the digital catalog of the Italian spiders and other arachnids (Arachnida: Araneae, Opiliones, Scorpiones, Pseudoscorpiones, Palpigradi, Solifugae). Fragmenta Entomologica 57: 197-204
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
Le Peru B (2007) Catalogue et répartition des araignées de France. Revue Arachnologique 16: 1-468
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
Maurer R, Hänggi A (1990) Katalog der schweizerischen Spinnen. Documenta Faunistica Helvetiae 12
Metzner H (1999) Die Springspinnen (Araneae, Salticidae) Griechenlands. Andrias 14: 1-279
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].
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
Otto S (2022) Caucasian spiders. A faunistic database on the spiders of the Caucasus Ecoregion. Database version 02.2022. Internet: caucasus-spiders.info.
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
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.
Prószyński J (2003) Salticidae (Araneae) of the Levant. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 53: 1-180
Quevedo-Ortiz G, Pinilla Rosa M (2024b) Aportación al conocimiento aracnológico (Araneae) del noreste y sureste de la península ibérica. Revista Ibérica de Aracnología 44: 175-177
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
Schäfer M (2015) Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna der Balearen mit dem Erstnachweis von Heliophanus stylifer für Europa (Araneae, Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 49: 62-67
Taberlet J-P (unpubl.)
Weiss I, Petrișor A (1999) List of the spiders (Arachnida: Araneae) from Romania. Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa” 41: 79-107
Wesołowska W (1999) A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10: 251-353
WSC (2026) World Spider Catalog. Version 27. Natural History Museum Bern, online at http://wsc.nmbe.ch (13.2.2026) doi: 10.24436/2
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