The species was first identified in 1999 by Jerzy Prószyński and Wanda Wesołowska working initially independently, and then together.

Menemerus davidi is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Jerzy Prószyński and Wanda Wesołowska in 1999.

[1] It was one of over 500 species identified by the Polish arachnologist Wesołowska during her career, making her one of the most prolific in the field.

[2] She and Prószyński studied the species simultaneously and decided to describe its together, although Wesołowska's description was published first.

[6] The genus shares some characteristics, including having narrow, oval, fixed embolus, with the genera Hypaeus and Pellenes.

[11] The vast majority of the species in Menemerines are members of the genus, with additional examples from Kima and Leptorchestes.

[15] The ventral tibial apophysis, or spike, is long, tapering and folds back diagonally.

[17] The epigyne is a large oval that has very wide pockets joined together towards the back edge of the spider.

The copulatory openings, positioned to the sides in the middle, are large and lead down the centre of the spider to the spermathecae.

There is also a short narrower channel that runs to the rear of the spider with a prominent scent pore at the end.

It can be distinguished from that species by the lack of a white line on the edge of the carapace, a far less distinctive triangular shape on the eye field, the short white hairs on the edge of the clypeus and the different pattern on the abdomen.

They differ in the shape of the male dorsal tibial apophysis and shorter embolus and female copulatory openings being rather semi-rounded rather than the thin slits on the other species.

The first example to be found in Egypt was originally misidentified as Menemerus soldani but corrected by Wesołowska in 1999.