Rhene Explained
Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (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 provided the replacement name Rhene in 1869.[1] The name Rhene is derived from the Greek woman's name Rhene (Greek, Ancient (to 1453);: Ῥήνη).[1]
Species
, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:
- 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
Notes and References
- Book: Thorell, Tamerlan. On European Spiders, Part 1: Review of the European Genera of Spiders, Preceded by Some Observations on Zoological Nomenclature. 1869. 37.
