Menneus is a genus of net-casting spiders that was first described by Eugène Simon in 1876. It includes the former genera Avella and Avellopsis. Species are found in Australia, New Caledonia, and eastern and southern Africa. Originally placed with the cribellate orb-weavers, it was moved to the Deinopidae in 1967.
Species
Species
, this genus includes 14 species:
- Menneus aussie <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), New Caledonia
- Menneus bituberculatus <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â Australia (Queensland), possibly New Guinea
- Menneus camelus <small>Pocock, 1902</small> â South Africa
- Menneus capensis <small>(Purcell, 1904)</small> â South Africa
- Menneus darwini <small>Coddington, & Opell, 2012</small> â Tanzania
- Menneus dromedarius <small>Purcell, 1904</small> â South Africa, Madagascar
- Menneus nemesio <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â Australia (New South Wales)
- Menneus neocaledonicus <small>(Simon, 1888)</small> â New Caledonia
- Menneus quasimodo <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
- Menneus samperi <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â East Africa
- Menneus superciliosus <small>(Thorell, 1881)</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales)
- Menneus tetragnathoides <small>Simon, 1877</small> â Angola, Malawi, Tanzania (type species)
- Menneus trinodosus <small>Rainbow, 1920</small> â Australia (Queensland, New South Wales, Lord Howe Island)
- Menneus wa <small>Coddington, Kuntner & Opell, 2012</small> â Australia (Western Australia)
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