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Genus: Thyene Simon, 1885 | Family: Salticidae Blackwall, 1841

Thyene hemmingi (Caporiacco, 1949)

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:032559

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Described:

Distribution: Kenya

External Resources*: Jumping Spiders of the World Metzner (2026) | Salticidae Database Prószyński (2025) | GBIF

Type Repository Provide information

Syntype: Museo Zoologico di Storia Naturale "La Specola", Università degli Studi di Firenze (MZUF), Florence, Italy 1f (644) - (Berdondini & Whitman, 2003)
Syntype: Museo Civico di Storia Naturale, Verona (MCSNV), Italy 1f (Di Caporiacco 123) - (Ballarin, Salmaso & Latella, 2020)

Taxonomic References

Brancus hemmingi Caporiacco, 1949a: 466, f. 85 (Df) Original description

Brancus hemmingi Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 121 (description insufficient, taxonomic position remains unclear, T from Brancus by S of the genus)

References

Caporiacco, L. di (1949a). Aracnidi della colonia del Kenya raccolti da Toschi e Meneghetti negli anni 1944-1946. Commentationes Pontificia Academia Scientiarum 13: 309-492. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (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 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

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Metzner, H. (2026). Jumping spiders (Arachnida: Araneae: Salticidae) of the world. Online at https://www.jumping-spiders.com.

Prószyński, J. (2025). Salticidae (Araneae) Genera of the World "a management tool for developing a new system of Salticidae" - a scrollable e-Textbook. Version December 20th, 2025, online at http://www.salticidae.pl.

GBIF.org (2026). GBIF Home Page (via GBIF API). Available from: https://www.gbif.org [8 January 2026]

Edit History

Date	Type	Reference	Old value	Comment
2022-10-17	New taxonomic reference entry	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17	Species transferred to new genus	Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022		Species transferred from Brancus to Thyene