Rhene

For other uses, see Rhene (disambiguation).

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

See text.

Diversity[1]
59 species

Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders) whose species mostly live in tropical and subtropical regions worldwide.

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 May 2025, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

  • Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Korea, Sumatra
  • Rhene amabilis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • 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 elongata C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
  • Rhene eximia Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • 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 hexagon Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • 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 khulnaensis Biswas, 2023 – Bangladesh
  • 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 plumata Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
  • 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 sororis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • Rhene sulfurea (Simon, 1885) – Senegal
  • Rhene timidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
  • Rhene triapophyses Peng, 1995 – China
  • Rhene ugandensis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • Rhene yunnanensis (Peng & Xie, 1995) – China

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Rhene Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2025-05-16.
  2. ^ a b 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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