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Mexcala monstrata in Egypt 5 of Mexcala are known from Africa now (Wesołowska 2009, World Spider Catalog 2019) – and the last one ( Mexcala far- sensis Logunov, 2001, decribed from Iran) is misplaced in the genus according to Wesołowska (2009: 185). Acknowledgements The authors sincerely thank Hisham K. El-Hennawy, Egyptian arachnologist (editor of SERKET “The Arachnological Bulletin of the Middle East and North Africa”) for great help in this work, encouragment and support, for his help in determining spiders and helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.We would like to thank Petr Dolejš (editor of the ArachnologischeMitteilungen), Wanda Wesołowska and Dmitri Logunov (reviewers) for their valu­ able comments and corrections that improved the paper. References Dippenaar-Schoeman AS & Jocqué R 2006 Spider families of the world. Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren. 336 pp. El-Hennawy HK 2017 A list of Egyptian spiders (revised in 2017). – Serket 15: 167-183 Lawrence RF 1928 Contributions to a knowledge of the fauna of South-West Africa VII.Arachnida (Part 2). – Annals of the South African Museum 25: 217-312 Peckham GW & Peckham EG 1902 Some new genera and species of Attidae from South Africa. – Psyche 9 (312): 330-335 – doi: 10.1155/1902/13502 PeckhamGW&PeckhamEG1903 New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. – Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14: 173-278 WesołowskaW2009 A revision of the spider genus Mexcala Peckham et Peckham, 1902 (Araneae: Salticidae). – Genus 20: 149-186 WesołowskaW&Harten A van 1994The jumping spiders (Salticidae, Araneae) of Yemen. Yemeni-German Plant Protection Project, Sana’a. 86 pp. Wesołowska W & Harten A van 2007 Additions to the knowledge of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae) of Yemen. – Fauna of Arabia 23: 189-269 World Spider Catalog 2019 World spider catalog. Version 19.5. Natural History Museum, Bern. – Internet: http://wsc.nmbe.ch (3. Jan. 2019) – doi: 10.24436/2 Fig. 1: Mexcala monstrata , habitus of a living spider. a. adult male; b . subadult male; c. prosoma of a preserved male Figs 2-5: Mexcala monstrata, pedipalp. 2, 3. ventral view; 4, 5. lateral view