This led to confusion, with many museums holding examples of different species labelled Menemerus soldani.

When the female was described by Hippolyte Lucas and Wanda Wesołowska, they were designated as different species, both of these being declared junior synonyms by subsequent arachnologists.

The spider is small, with a total length between 3.11 and 5.65 mm (0.122 and 0.222 in), and has a brown carapace, yellow abdomen and orange legs.

The female has a characteristic semi-circular notch at the rear of its epigyne while the male has a large bulbous patellar apophysis that other species in the genus lack.

Menemerus soldani is a species of jumping spider that was first described by Jean Victor Audouin in 1826.

[4] He allocated it to the genus Attus, which had been circumscribed by Charles Walckenaer in 1805 and contained a very large number of jumping spider species.

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

In 1947, Jacques Denis identified an example found in Siwa Oasis, Egypt, which turned out to be Menemerus fagei.

[17] The carapace is flat and dark brown with a small stripe at the very rear formed of white hairs.

The copulatory openings are well separated and the insemination ducts run parallel to epigastric fold.

[21] This is made more difficult as museums contain many different species of jumping spider mislabelled Menemerus soldani.

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

[1] Simon considered that that had a wider species distribution that spread from Senegal to Yemen.

[26] The first example examined from Algeria was found near Ghardaïa at an altitude of 462 m (1,516 ft) above sea level in 2016.