Menneus
Sign in to saveMenneus 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.
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 108
- Family
- Deinopidae
- Collections
- MCZ, CASC, ARC-PPRI
- Recorded in
- Australia, Madagascar, South Africa
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- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Deinopidae
- Image
- Avella despiciens green abdomen.JPG
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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==
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