Thyene is a genus of jumping spiders that was first described by Eugène Louis Simon in 1885. It is a junior synonym of Mithion, and senior synonym of Brancus, Paramodunda and Gangus.
Distribution Spiders in this genus are found in Africa, Europe, Asia, Brazil, and Queensland.
Species
, this genus includes 58 species and one subspecies:
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, 1903 – DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa Thyene benjamini Prószyński & Deeleman-Reinhold, 2010 – Indonesia (Sumbawa) Thyene bilaguncula (Xie & Peng, 1995) – China Thyene bilineata Lawrence, 1927 – Namibia, South Africa Thyene bivittata Xie & Peng, 1995 – Pakistan, 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, 1985 – Japan, China, Vietnam Thyene ornata Wesołowska & Tomasiewicz, 2008 – Ethiopia Thyene perfecta Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 – Uganda Thyene phragmitigrada Metzner, 1999 – Spain, 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, 2002 – Yemen (Socotra) Thyene splendida Caporiacco, 1939 – Ethiopia Thyene striatipes (Caporiacco, 1939) – East Africa Thyene subsplendens Caporiacco, 1947 – Eritrea 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
External links Photograph of T. phragmitigrada Photograph of T. imperialis