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Genus: Menemerus Simon, 1868 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Menemerus lesnei Lessert, 1936

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034561

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034561

Described:

Distribution: Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

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Holotype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland m (ARTO-0027997) - (Wesołowska, 1999)

Taxonomic References

Menemerus lesnei Lessert, 1936: 290, f. 85-86 (Dm) Original description

Menemerus lesnei Wesołowska, 1999: 300, f. 162-170 (m)

Menemerus lesnei Wesołowska, 2006b: 243, f. 78-82 (m)

Menemerus lesnei Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026: 44, p. 35: 1 f., p. 44: f. 1-3 (m)

References

Dippenaar-Schoeman, A. S., Haddad, C. R., Van der Walt, V., Foord, S. H., Lotz, L. N. & Uys, W. (2026). The Salticidae of South Africa. Part 4 (K-Mogrus). Version 1. South African National Survey of Arachnida Photo Identification Guide, Irene, 70 pp. doi: 10.5281/zenodo.20542599 -- Show included taxa

Lessert, R. de (1936). Araignées de l'Afrique orientale portugaise, recueillies par MM. P. Lesne et B.-B. Cott. Revue Suisse de Zoologie 43: 207-306. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.144393 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (1999). A revision of the spider genus Menemerus in Africa (Araneae: Salticidae). Genus 10(2): 251-353. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2006b). Jumping spiders from the Brandberg massif in Namibia (Araneae: Salticidae). African Entomology 14: 225-256. -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2026-06-09	New taxonomic reference entry	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026
2026-06-09	Species distribution update	Dippenaar-Schoeman et al., 2026	Old value