Menemerus fagei Berland & Millot, 1941

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:034548

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Described:

Distribution: Canary Is., West Africa, Algeria, Malta, Cyprus, Egypt, Sudan, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Yemen, Israel


Type Repository Provide information
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f - (Wesołowska, 1999)
  • Holotype: Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), Paris, France f of Menenerus lesserti Denis, 1955 - (Wesołowska, 1999)
Taxonomic References
Menemerus fagei Berland & Millot, 1941: 350, f. 53 (Df) Original description
Menemerus lesserti Denis, 1955b: 122, f. 22 (Df; preoccupied by Lawrence, 1927, see Menemerus lesserti) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:062068]
Menemerus bivittatus Prószyński, 1989a: 37, f. 12-17 (mf; misidentified per Wesołowska, 1999: 289)
Menemerus fagei Wesołowska, 1999: 289, f. 120-133 (f, Dm, S of Menemerus lesserti Denis)
Menemerus fagei Prószyński, 2003: 91, f. 360-374 (mf)
Menemerus fagei Freudenschuss, Bauer & Sciberras, 2013: 6, f. 1-3 (f)
Menemerus fagei Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017: 322, f. 16-17 (f)
Menemerus fagei Prószyński, 2017b: 114, f. 50F-I (mf)
Menemerus fagei Schäfer, 2022: 69, f. 19-25 (mf)
References

Berland, L. & Millot, J. (1941). Les araignées de l'Afrique Occidentale Française I.-Les salticides. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris (N.S.) 12: 297-423. -- Show included taxa

Denis, J. (1955b). Contribution à l'étude de l'Aïr (Mission L. Chopard et A. Villiers). Araignées. Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire 17(A): 99-146. -- Show included taxa

Freudenschuss, M., Bauer, T. & Sciberras, A. (2013). Menemerus fagei new to Malta and Europe (Araneae: Salticidae). Arachnologische Mitteilungen 46: 6-8. doi: 10.5431/aramit4602 -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1989a). Salticidae (Araneae) of Saudi Arabia. Fauna Saudi Arabia 10: 31-64. -- Show included taxa

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

Prószyński, J. (2017b). Pragmatic classification of the world's Salticidae (Araneae). Ecologica Montenegrina 12: 1-133. doi: 10.37828/em.2017.12.1 -- Show included taxa

Schäfer, M. (2022). Ein Beitrag zur Springspinnenfauna (Araneae: Salticidae) der Kanarischen Inseln mit der Erstbeschreibung von Euophrys arnograbollei spec. nov. Arachnologische Mitteilungen 64: 57-72. doi: 10.30963/aramit6408 -- Show included taxa

Siyam, M., Dunlop, J. A. & Jäger, P. (2017). Further spider records from the Republic of the Sudan. Arachnology 17(6): 317-322. doi: 10.13156/arac.2017.17.6.317 -- 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

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.

Nentwig, W., Blick, T., Bosmans, R., Kropf, C., Stäubli, A.: Spiders of Europe. www.araneae.nmbe.ch. Version 01.2026. doi: 10.24436/1

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
2025-03-26 Species distribution update Berretima et al., 2025 Old value
2023-01-09 New taxonomic reference entry Schäfer, 2022
2023-01-09 Species distribution update Schäfer, 2022 Old value
2017-11-22 New taxonomic reference entry Siyam, Dunlop & Jäger, 2017
2017-09-17 New taxonomic reference entry Prószyński, 2017b

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