Thyenula munda (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

SPECIES |   ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035974

Permalink: https://wsc.nmbe.ch/lsid/urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:035974

Described:

Distribution: Uganda, Zimbabwe, Mozambique


Type Repository Provide information
  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m - (Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014)
  • Paratype: National Collection of Arachnida (NCA), ARC – Plant Protection Research Institute (PPRI), Pretoria, South Africa 9m 25f (2009/3239-3240) of Thyenula hortensis Wesolowska & Cumming, 2008 - (Marais et al., 2013)
  • Holotype: Musée Royal de l’Afrique Centrale, Tervuren (MRAC/RMCA), Belgium f (222633) of Thyenula hortensis - (Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008)
Taxonomic References
Saitis mundus Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 198, pl. 21, f. 3 (Dm) Original description
Saitis mundus Prószyński, 1976: 153, f. 183 (m)
Thyenula hortensis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 219, f. 181-187 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:041655]
Thyenula munda Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014: 58 (mf, T from Saitis, S of Thyenula hortensis)
Thyenula munda Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 151, f. 99A-B (f)
References

Peckham, G. W. & Peckham, E. G. (1903). New species of the family Attidae from South Africa, with notes on the distribution of the genera found in the Ethiopian region. Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters 14(1): 173-278, pl. 19-29. -- Show included taxa

Prószyński, J. (1976). Studium systematyczno-zoogeograflczne nad rodziną Salticidae (Aranei) Regionów Palearktycznego i Nearktycznego. Wyższa Szkola Pedagogiczna Siedlcach 6: 1-260. [[pdf is made from a reprint from 1979]] -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Cumming, M. S. (2008). Taxonomy and natural history of a species rich assemblage of jumping spiders (Araneae: Salticidae); a long-term study of a suburban site in Zimbabwe. Annales Zoologici, Warszawa 58: 167-230. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W., Azarkina, G. N. & Russell-Smith, A. (2014). Euophryine jumping spiders of the Afrotropical Region – new taxa and a checklist (Araneae: Salticidae: Euophryinae). Zootaxa 3789(1): 1-72. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3789.1 -- Show included taxa

Wiśniewski, K. & Wesołowska, W. (2024). Jumping spiders (Salticidae) of Uganda – revised list, new species and distributional data. European Journal of Taxonomy 952: 1-171. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2024.952.2647 -- Show included taxa

External Resource References

* Disclaimer
As External Resources, the World Spider Catalog links here to species pages of other databases. They may contain further information for the given species. The databases, listed as External Resources, however, are not managed by World Spider Catalog and the information given there is not necessarily in agreement with the World Spider Catalog. All responsibility for such data is with the external database.

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
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 New taxonomic reference entry Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2014-08-07 Species distribution update Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 Old value
2014-08-07 Species updated Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 Old value
2014-08-07 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014
2014-08-07 Species synonymy Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 Thyenula hortensis synonymized with Thyenula munda
2014-08-07 Species updated Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 Old value Species epithet corrected
2014-08-07 Species transferred to new genus Wesołowska, Azarkina & Russell-Smith, 2014 Species transferred from Saitis to Thyenula

Sponsors