Merenius
| Merenius | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Chelicerata |
| Class: | Arachnida |
| Order: | Araneae |
| Infraorder: | Araneomorphae |
| Family: | Corinnidae |
| Genus: | Merenius Simon, 1910[1] |
| Type species | |
| M. plumosus Simon, 1910
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| Species | |
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12, see text | |
Merenius is a genus of corinnid sac spiders first described by Eugène Simon in 1910.[2]
Species
[edit]As of April 2019[update] it contains twelve species:[1]
- Merenius alberti Lessert, 1923 – Southern Africa
- Merenius concolor Caporiacco, 1947 – Tanzania
- Merenius myrmex Simon, 1910 – Guinea-Bissau
- Merenius plumosus Simon, 1910 (type) – Guinea-Bissau
- Merenius proximus Lessert, 1929 – Congo
- Merenius p. quadrimaculatus Lessert, 1946 – Congo
- Merenius recurvatus (Strand, 1906) – Ethiopia, East Africa
- Merenius secundus (Strand, 1907) – Tanzania
- Merenius simoni Lessert, 1921 – Congo, East Africa
- Merenius solitarius Lessert, 1946 – Congo
- Merenius tenuiculus Simon, 1910 – Sierra Leone
- Merenius yemenensis Denis, 1953 – Yemen
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Gen. Merenius Simon, 1910". World Spider Catalog Version 20.0. Natural History Museum Bern. 2019. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2019-05-20.
- ^ Simon, E. (1910). "Arachnides recueillis par L. Fea sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique. 2e partie". Annali del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Genova. 44: 335–449.