Menemerus transvaalicus Wesołowska, 1999

Wesołowska, Wanda & Haddad, Charles R., 2014, An overview of the jumping spiders of Lesotho (Araneae: Salticidae), with descriptions of six new species, African Invertebrates 55 (2), pp. 229-229 : 253

Menemerus transvaalicus Wesołowska, 1999

Menemerus transvaalicus Wesołowska, 1999 b: 339 , figs 284–296; Haddad & Wesołowska 2011: 86 , figs 71, 72.

Wesołowska (1999 b) described both sexes.

Material examined: Maseru district: 1♀ Maseru, Maseru airport, 29°28'S 27°33'E, under stone, sandstone outcrop, 19.iv.1977, leg. A. Russell-Smith ( BMNH) ; 1♂ Mohale Dam, Islands, 29°25'S 28°06'E, 2060 m, under rocks, 13.xii.2003 ( NCA 2013 /3088) . Qacha’s Nek district: 1♀ Near Maghoareng village , 30°03'S 28°53'E, 2200 m, under rocks on mountainside, 6.xi.2003 ( NCA 2013 /3087); 1♀ Qacha’s Nek, 30°07'S 28°41'E, 1830 m, under bark, Eucalyptus tree, 8.xi.2003 ( NCA 2013 /3086) .

Distribution: A species previously known only from South Africa. Recorded here from three scattered localities in southern and central Lesotho ( Fig. 93 ).

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Fig. 93. Distribution of Salticidae from Lesotho.