Rhene

Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

For other uses, see Rhene (disambiguation).

Rhene
Male Rhene flavicomans from Hong Kong
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Rhene
Thorell, 1869[1]
Type species
Rhanis flavigera
Species

See text.

Diversity[1]
59 species

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 provided the replacement name Rhene in 1869.[2] The name Rhene is derived from the Greek woman's name Rhene (Ῥήνη).[2]

Species
R. atrata from Japan

As of June 2022, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

  • Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Korea, Sumatra
  • Rhene amanzi Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
  • Rhene atellana (Thorell, 1895) – Myanmar
  • Rhene atrata (Karsch, 1881) – Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
  • Rhene banksi Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – South Africa
  • Rhene biguttata Peckham & Peckham, 1903 – South Africa
  • Rhene brevipes (Thorell, 1891) – Sumatra
  • Rhene bufo (Doleschall, 1859) – Myanmar to Sumatra
  • Rhene callida Peckham & Peckham, 1895 – India
  • Rhene callosa (Peckham & Peckham, 1895) – India
  • Rhene cancer Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008 – Zimbabwe
  • Rhene candida Fox, 1937 – China
  • Rhene capensis Strand, 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 – Tanzania
  • Rhene flavicomans Simon, 1902 – India, Bhutan, Sri Lanka
  • Rhene flavigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) (type species) – China, Vietnam to Sumatra
  • Rhene foai Simon, 1902 – South Africa
  • Rhene formosa Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea
  • Rhene habahumpa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
  • 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) – Peru, French Guiana
  • Rhene kenyaensis Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya
  • Rhene konradi Wesołowska, 2009 – South Africa
  • Rhene legitima Wesołowska & Haddad, 2018 – South Africa
  • Rhene lesserti Berland & Millot, 1941 – Senegal
  • 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 – Ethiopia
  • Rhene mombasa Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya
  • Rhene mordax (Thorell, 1890) – Java
  • Rhene mus (Simon, 1889) – India
  • Rhene myunghwani Kim, 1996 – Korea
  • Rhene nigrita (C. L. Koch, 1846) – Indonesia
  • 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
  • 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, Hawaii
  • Rhene saeva (Giebel, 1863) – Java
  • Rhene setipes Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam, Ryūkyū Islands
  • Rhene sulfurea (Simon, 1885) – Senegal
  • Rhene timidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
  • Rhene triapophyses Peng, 1995 – China
  • Rhene yunnanensis (Peng & Xie, 1995) – China

References
  1. "Gen. Rhene Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2022-06-12.
  2. Thorell, Tamerlan (1869). On European Spiders, Part 1: Review of the European Genera of Spiders, Preceded by Some Observations on Zoological Nomenclature. p. 37.
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