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

See text.

Diversity[1]
54 species

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.[2] The name Rhene is derived from the Greek woman's name Rhene (Ῥήνη).[2]

In 2010, the species Zygoballus citri was transferred to Rhene as Rhene citri.[3]

Species

R. atrata from Japan
front view of male R. flavicomans from Hong Kong
female R. flavigera from Hong Kong

As of September 2018, the World Spider Catalog accepted the following extant species:[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Gen. Rhene Thorell, 1869". World Spider Catalog. Natural History Museum Bern. Retrieved 2018-09-23.
  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.
  3. ^ Kaldari, Ryan (2010). "Reassignment of the Indian species of Zygoballus to Bianor and Rhene (Araneae: Salticidae)" (PDF). Peckhamia (82.1).