Rhene

Rhene
male R. flavicomans from Hong Kong
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Arachnida
Order:	Araneae
Family:	Salticidae
Subfamily:	Dendryphantinae
Genus:	Rhene Thorell, 1869
Type species
Rhanis flavigera C. L. Koch, 1846
Species
see text
Diversity
54 species

Rhene is a spider genus of the Salticidae family (jumping spiders). The genus was originally named Rhanis. Tamerlan Thorell renamed it Rhene in 1869 so that it would not be confused with a beetle genus that was also named Rhanis.^[1] The name Rhene is derived from the Greek proper name Rhene (Ρήνη).^[1]

Species

R. atrata from Japan

front view of male R. flavicomans from Hong Kong

female R. flavigera from Hong Kong

• Rhene albigera (C. L. Koch, 1846) – India to Korea, Sumatra
• Rhene amanzi Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Rhene atrata (Karsch, 1881) – Russia, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan
• Rhene banksi Peckham & Peckham, 1902 – South Africa
• Rhene biembolusa Song & Chai, 1991 – China
• 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 citri Sadana, 1991 – India^[2]
• Rhene cooperi Lessert, 1925 – South Africa
• Rhene curta Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
• Rhene daitarensis Prószyński, 1992 – India
• Rhene danieli Tikader, 1973 – India
• Rhene darjeelingiana Prószyński, 1992 – India
• Rhene decorata Tikader, 1977 – 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) – China, Vietnam to Sumatra
• Rhene foai Simon, 1902 – South Africa
• Rhene formosa Rollard & Wesołowska, 2002 – Guinea
• Rhene habahumpa Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Rhene haldanei Gajbe, 2004 – India
• Rhene hinlalakea Barrion & Litsinger, 1995 – Philippines
• Rhene hirsuta (Thorell, 1877) – Sulawesi
• Rhene indica Tikader, 1973 – India, Andaman Islands, China
• Rhene ipis Fox, 1937 – China
• Rhene jelskii (Taczanowski, 1871) – Peru, French Guiana
• Rhene kenyaensis Wesołowska & Dawidowicz, 2014 – Kenya
• Rhene khandalaensis Tikader, 1977 – India
• Rhene konradi Wesołowska, 2009 – 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 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 pantharae Biswas & Biswas, 1992 – India
• 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 sanghrakshiti Gajbe, 2004 – India
• Rhene setipes Zabka, 1985 – China, Vietnam, Ryūkyū Islands
• Rhene spuridens Strand, 1907 – Java
• Rhene sulfurea (Simon, 1885) – Senegal
• Rhene timidus Wesołowska & Haddad, 2013 – South Africa
• Rhene triapophyses Peng, 1995 – China

References

1. 1 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. 
2. ↑ Kaldari, Ryan (2010). "Reassignment of the Indian species of Zygoballus to Bianor and Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Peckhamia (82.1). 

• Platnick, Norman I. (2009): The world spider catalog, version 9.5. American Museum of Natural History.

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