Thyene

Thyene
Thyene imperialis with prey
T. inflata from South Africa
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Chelicerata
Class: Arachnida
Order: Araneae
Infraorder: Araneomorphae
Family: Salticidae
Subfamily: Salticinae
Genus: Thyene
Simon, 1885[1]
Type species
T. imperialis
(Rossi, 1846)
Species

58, see text

Synonyms[1]
  • Brancus Simon, 1902[2]
  • Gangus Simon, 1902[3]
  • Mithion Simon, 1884[4]
  • Paramodunda Lessert, 1925[5]
  • Thya Simon, 1876

Thyene is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885.[6] It is a junior synonym of Mithion,[4] and senior synonym of Brancus, Paramodunda and Gangus.[3][5][2]

Distribution

Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Europe, Asia, Brazil, and Queensland.[1]

Species

As of October 2025, this genus includes 58 species and one subspecies:[1]

  • Thyene aperta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique
  • Thyene australis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • Thyene benjamini Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010Indonesia (Sumbawa)
  • Thyene bilaguncula (Xie & Peng, 1995)China
  • Thyene bilineata Lawrence, 1927Namibia, South Africa
  • Thyene bivittata Xie & Peng, 1995Pakistan, India, Nepal, China
  • Thyene blaisei (Simon, 1902)Gabon, Uganda
  • Thyene bucculenta (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Guinea, Ethiopia, Tanzania, Mozambique
  • Thyene calebi (Kanesharatnam & Benjamin, 2018) – India, Sri Lanka
  • Thyene chopardi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Guinea, Niger
  • Thyene coccineovittata (Simon, 1886)Mali, Senegal, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa. Introduced to France, Brazil
  • Thyene concinna (Keyserling, 1881)Australia (Queensland)
  • Thyene corcula (Pavesi, 1895) – Ethiopia
  • Thyene coronata Simon, 1902 – Southern Africa
  • Thyene dakarensis (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Senegal
  • Thyene dancala Caporiacco, 1947 – Ethiopia
  • Thyene decora (Simon, 1902) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Thyene gangoides Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Bali
  • Thyene hemmingi (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
  • Thyene hesperia (Simon, 1909) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria
  • Thyene imperialis (Rossi, 1846) – Southern Europe, North, West and East Africa, Middle East to Central Asia and China, Pakistan, India, Indonesia (type species)
  • Thyene inflata (Gerstaecker, 1873) – Sub-Saharan Africa, Madagascar
  • Thyene leighi G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa
  • Thyene longula (Simon, 1902) – Australia (Queensland)
  • Thyene manipisa (Barrion & Litsinger, 1995)Philippines
  • Thyene masindi Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Guinea, Uganda
  • Thyene mutica (Simon, 1902) – West, Central Africa, Uganda, Southern Africa
  • Thyene natalii G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Eswatini
  • Thyene nigriceps (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
  • Thyene ocellata (Thorell, 1899) – Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Uganda, Mozambique
  • Thyene ogdeni G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903 – Guinea, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa
    • T. o. nyukiensis Lessert, 1925 – East Africa
  • Thyene orbicularis (Gerstaecker, 1873) – East Africa
  • Thyene orientalis Żabka, 1985Japan, China, Vietnam
  • Thyene ornata Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia
  • Thyene perfecta Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda
  • Thyene phragmitigrada Metzner, 1999Spain, Greece
  • Thyene poecila (Caporiacco, 1949) – Kenya
  • Thyene punctiventer (Karsch, 1879) – Gabon
  • Thyene roeweri Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Mozambique
  • Thyene rubricoronata (Strand, 1911) – Indonesia (Kei Is.)
  • Thyene semiargentea (Simon, 1884)Sudan, Uganda, Tanzania, South Africa
  • Thyene sexplagiata (Simon, 1909)São Tomé and Príncipe
  • Thyene similis Wesołowska & van Harten, 2002Yemen (Socotra)
  • Thyene splendida Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia
  • Thyene striatipes (Caporiacco, 1939) – East Africa
  • Thyene subsplendens Caporiacco, 1947Eritrea
  • Thyene tamatavi (Vinson, 1863) – Madagascar
  • Thyene thyenioides (Lessert, 1925) – Kenya, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, South Africa
  • Thyene triangula Xie & Peng, 1995 – China
  • Thyene typica Jastrzebski, 2006 – Nepal
  • Thyene varians G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1901 – Madagascar
  • Thyene verdieri (Berland & Millot, 1941) – Guinea, Uganda
  • Thyene villiersi Berland & Millot, 1941 – Ivory Coast
  • Thyene vittata Simon, 1902 – Ethiopia, South Africa
  • Thyene volombavatanany Murray, Escobar-Toledo & Pett, 2024 – Madagascar
  • Thyene xingrenensis C. Wang, Mi & Peng, 2023 – China
  • Thyene yuxiensis Xie & Peng, 1995 – Nepal, China
  • Thyene zhangi (Peng, Yin, Yan & Kim, 1998) – China

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Thyene Simon, 1885". World Spider Catalog. doi:10.24436/2. Retrieved 2025-10-15.
  2. ^ a b Wesołowska, Wanda; Russell-Smith, Anthony (2022). "Jumping spiders from Ivory Coast collected by J.-C. Ledoux (Araneae, Salticidae)". European Journal of Taxonomy (841): 1–143. doi:10.5852/ejt.2022.841.1943. S2CID 252889319.
  3. ^ a b Prószyński, J.; Deeleman-Reinhold, C. L. (2010). "Description of some Salticidae (Araneae) from the Malay Archipelago. I. Salticidae of the Lesser Sunda Islands, with comments on related species". Arthropoda Selecta. 19: 184. doi:10.15298/arthsel.19.3.05.
  4. ^ a b Prószyński, J. (1987). Atlas rysunków diagnostycznych mniej znanych Salticidae 2. Zeszyty Naukowe Wyższej Szkoly Rolniczo-Pedagogicznej w Siedlcach. p. 111.
  5. ^ a b Prószyński, J. (1990). Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): synthesis of quotations in the world literature since 1940, with basic taxonomic data since 1758. Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna W Siedlcach. p. 252.
  6. ^ Simon, E. (1885). "Matériaux pour servir à la faune arachnologiques de l'Asie méridionale. I. Arachnides recueillis à Wagra-Karoor près Gundacul, district de Bellary par M. M. Chaper. II. Arachnides recueillis à Ramnad, district de Madura par M. l'abbé Fabre". Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 10: 1–39.