''Rhene'' is a

spider Spiders ( order Araneae) are air-breathing arthropods that have eight legs, chelicerae with fangs generally able to inject venom, and spinnerets that extrude silk. They are the largest order of arachnids and rank seventh in total species ...

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...

of the family

Salticidae Jumping spiders are a group of spiders that constitute the family Salticidae. As of 2019, this family contained over 600 described genera and over 6,000 described species, making it the largest family of spiders at 13% of all species. Jumping spi ...

(jumping spiders).

Taxonomy

The genus was originally named ''Rhanis'' by C. L. Koch in 1846. However, this name had already been used for a beetle genus in 1834. Accordingly,

Tamerlan Thorell Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (3 May 1830 – 22 December 1901) was a Swedish arachnologist. Thorell studied spiders with Giacomo Doria at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale de Genoa. He corresponded with other arachnologists, such as Octaviu ...

provided the

replacement name In biological nomenclature, a ''nomen novum'' (Latin for "new name"), new replacement name (or replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a scientific name that is created specifically to replace another scientific name, but only w ...

''Rhene'' in 1869. The name ''Rhene'' is derived from the Greek woman's name '' Rhene'' ().

Species

, the

World Spider Catalog The World Spider Catalog (WSC) is an online searchable database concerned with spider taxonomy. It aims to list all accepted families, genera and species, as well as provide access to the related taxonomic literature. The WSC began as a series of ...

accepted the following extant species: * '' Rhene albigera'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) –

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, Sumatra * '' Rhene amanzi'' Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa * '' Rhene atellana'' (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar * '' Rhene atrata'' ( Karsch, 1881) –

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, China, Korea,

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, Japan * '' Rhene banksi'' Peckham & Peckham, 1902 –

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* '' Rhene biguttata'' Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa * '' Rhene brevipes'' (Thorell, 1891) – Sumatra * '' Rhene bufo'' (

Doleschall Carl Ludwig Doleschall ( hu, Doleschall Lajos; sk, Karol Ľudovít Doležal; born 15 July 1827 – died 26 February 1859) was born in Vág-Újhely, Kingdom of Hungary, Austrian Empire (now Nové Mesto nad Váhom, Slovakia), as the son of the theolo ...

, 1859) –

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to Sumatra * '' Rhene callida'' Peckham & Peckham, 1895 –

* '' Rhene callosa'' (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – India * '' Rhene cancer'' Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008 – Zimbabwe * '' Rhene candida'' Fox, 1937 – China * '' Rhene capensis''

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, 1909 – South Africa * '' Rhene cooperi'' Lessert, 1925 – South Africa * '' Rhene curta'' Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia * '' Rhene daitarensis'' Prószyński, 1992 – India * '' Rhene darjeelingiana'' Prószyński, 1992 – India * '' Rhene deplanata'' (Karsch, 1880) – Philippines * '' Rhene digitata'' Peng & Li, 2008 – China * '' Rhene facilis'' Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000 –

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* '' Rhene flavicomans''

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, 1902 – India,

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, Sri Lanka * '' Rhene flavigera'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) (

type species In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specime ...

) – China,

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to Sumatra * '' Rhene foai'' Simon, 1902 – South Africa * '' Rhene formosa'' Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea * '' Rhene habahumpa'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 –

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* '' Rhene hinlalakea'' Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines * '' Rhene hirsuta'' (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi * '' Rhene histrio'' (Thorell, 1891) – India * '' Rhene ipis'' Fox, 1937 – China * '' Rhene jelskii'' ( Taczanowski, 1871) –

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* '' Rhene kenyaensis'' Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya * '' Rhene konradi'' Wesołowska, 2009 – South Africa * '' Rhene legitima'' Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018 – South Africa * '' Rhene lesserti''

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& Millot, 1941 –

Senegal Senegal,; Wolof: ''Senegaal''; Pulaar: 𞤅𞤫𞤲𞤫𞤺𞤢𞥄𞤤𞤭 (Senegaali); Arabic: السنغال ''As-Sinighal'') officially the Republic of Senegal,; Wolof: ''Réewum Senegaal''; Pulaar : 𞤈𞤫𞤲𞤣𞤢𞥄𞤲𞤣𞤭 ...

* '' Rhene leucomelas'' (Thorell, 1891) – Philippines * '' Rhene lingularis'' Haddad & Wesolowska, 2011 – South Africa * '' Rhene machadoi'' Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea * '' Rhene margarops'' (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi * '' Rhene menglunensis'' Wang & Li, 2020 – China * '' Rhene modesta'' Caporiacco, 1941 –

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* '' Rhene mombasa'' Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya * '' Rhene mordax'' (Thorell, 1890) –

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* '' Rhene mus'' (Simon, 1889) – India * '' Rhene myunghwani'' Kim, 1996 – Korea * '' Rhene nigrita'' (C. L. Koch, 1846) –

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* '' Rhene obscura'' Wesołowska & van Harten, 2007 – Yemen * '' Rhene pallida'' (Thorell, 1895) – India, Bangladesh, Myanmar, China, Vietnam * '' Rhene parvula'' Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia * '' Rhene phuntsholingensis'' Jastrzebski, 1997 – Bhutan,

Nepal Nepal (; ne, :ne:नेपाल, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in S ...

* '' Rhene pinguis'' Wesołowska & Haddad, 2009 – South Africa * '' Rhene plana'' (Schenkel, 1936) – China * '' Rhene punctatus'' Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa * '' Rhene rubrigera'' (Thorell, 1887) – India to China, Sumatra,

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* '' Rhene saeva'' (Giebel, 1863) – Java * '' Rhene setipes'' Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam,

Ryūkyū Islands The , also known as the or the , are a chain of Japanese islands that stretch southwest from Kyushu to Taiwan: the Ōsumi, Tokara, Amami, Okinawa, and Sakishima Islands (further divided into the Miyako and Yaeyama Islands), with Yonaguni ...

* '' Rhene sulfurea'' (Simon, 1885) – Senegal * '' Rhene timidus'' Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa * '' Rhene triapophyses'' Peng, 1995 – China * '' Rhene yunnanensis'' (Peng & Xie, 1995) – China

References

External links

* {{Taxonbar, from=Q506347 Salticidae Taxa named by Tamerlan Thorell Salticidae genera Spiders of South America Spiders of Asia Spiders of Africa Spiders of Hawaii