Menneus camelus

{{Short description|Species of spider endemic to South Africa}}

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| image = Camel-back spider (Menneus camelus) 1.jpg

| image2 = Camel-back spider (Menneus camelus) 3.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |last1=Dippenaar-Schoeman |first1=A. |last2=Foord |first2=S. |last3=Lotz |first3=L. |last4=Haddad |first4=C. |last5=Lyle |first5=R. |last6=Sethusa |first6=T. |year=2024 |title=Menneus camelus |volume=2024 |page=e.T175255085A189444498 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2024-1.RLTS.T175255085A189444498.en |access-date=14 April 2025}}

| genus = Menneus

| species = camelus

| authority = Pocock, 1902

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Menneus camelus, also known as the camel-back spider, is a species of net-casting spider in the family Deinopidae. It is endemic to eastern South Africa.{{Cite journal |last=Coddington |first=Jonathan A. |last2=Kuntner |first2=Matjaz |last3=Opell |first3=Brent D. |date=2012 |title=Systematics of the Spider Family Deinopidae with a Revision of the Genus Menneus |url=https://smithsonian.figshare.com/articles/Systematics_of_the_Spider_Family_Deinopidae_with_a_Revision_of_the_Genus_Menneus/9762029 |journal=Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology |language=en |issue=636 |pages=1–61 |doi=10.5479/si.00810282.636.1}}{{Rp|page=14}}