Rhene

Genus of jumping spiders

For other uses, see Rhene (disambiguation).

Rhene

Male Rhene flavicomans from Hong Kong
Scientific 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

C. L. Koch, 1846

Species

See text.

Diversity[1]
59 species

Rhene is a spider genus of the family Salticidae (jumping spiders).

## Taxonomy

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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

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R. atrata from Japan

As of May 2025[update], 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

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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.

## External links

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* Media related to Rhene at Wikimedia Commons

Taxon identifiers

Rhene|

* Wikidata: Q506347
* Wikispecies: Rhene
* ADW: Rhene
* BioLib: 478215
* BOLD: 168501
* CoL: 78H9
* EoL: 114449
* GBIF: 2170944
* iNaturalist: 210610
* IRMNG: 1067235
* ITIS: 872943
* NCBI: 426836
* Open Tree of Life: 42363
* WSC: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidergen:03194