It has a very short embolus and a distinctive furrow in its tegulum dividing a sac of tissue used in copulation called the haematodocha.

Menemerus patellaris is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Wanda Wesołowska and Antonius van Harten in 2010.

[2] They allocated the spider to the genus Menemerus, first circumscribed in 1868 by Eugène Simon, containing over 60 species.

[4] Phylogenetic analysis has shown that the genus is related to the genera Helvetia and Phintella.

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

[10] The species is named for the presence of a spike, or apophysis, on the patellar, the section between the tibia and palpal bulb on the spider's copulatory organs.

It has wide brown stripes along the sides formed of white hairs extending onto the spider's face, or clypeus.

The spider's tegulum is a narrow oval with a distinctive furrow dividing a sac of tissue used in copulation called a haematodocha.

[1] Menemerus spiders are found throughout Africa and Asia, and have been identified as far as Latin America.