Thyene aperta (G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903)

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LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036583

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Described:

Distribution: Guinea, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Uganda, Tanzania, Zimbabwe, Mozambique


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  • Syntype: Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ), Harvard University, Cambridge, USA 2m - (Wesołowska, 2012b)
Taxonomic References
Modunda aperta Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 210, pl. 26, f. 9 (Dm) Original description
Paramodunda aperta Clark, 1974: 20, f. 25-26 (f, T from Modunda = Bianor, S of Mithion hesperius [revalidated by Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 608] and Paramodunda thyenioides [revalidated by Prószyński, 1984a: 168 and Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 608]; f. 25-26 labelled as Paramodunda thyenioides, here per Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 116)
Thyene aperta Prószyński, 1990: 348 (S of Thyene hesperius; revalidated by Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2011: 608)
Thyene semiargentea Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2000: 108, f. 300-306 (mf; misidentified per Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 116)
Thyene aperta Wesołowska, 2012b: 336, f. 40-44 (m)
Thyene aperta Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022: 116, f. 70A-D (m)
References

Clark, D. J. (1974). Notes on Simon's types of African Salticidae. Bulletin of the British Arachnological Society 3(1): 11-27. -- Show included taxa

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. (1990). Catalogue of Salticidae (Araneae): synthesis of quotations in the world literature since 1940, with basic taxonomic data since 1758. Wyższa Szkola Rolniczo-Pedagogiczna w Siedlcach, 366 pp. -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. & Russell-Smith, A. (2000). Jumping spiders from Mkomazi Game Reserve in Tanzania (Araneae Salticidae). Tropical Zoology 13(1): 11-127. doi: 10.1080/03946975.2000.10531126 -- Show included taxa

Wesołowska, W. (2012b). Redescriptions of some salticid species (Araneae: Salticidae) from South Africa and Zimbabwe described by G. and E. Peckham. African Entomology 20(2): 325-342. doi: 10.4001/003.020.0223 -- 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
2025-10-01 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Henrard, 2025 Old value
2025-06-29 Species distribution update Wawer & Wesołowska, 2025 Old value
2024-12-30 Species distribution update Haddad, Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-09-06 Species distribution update Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024 Old value
2024-01-08 Taxonomic reference added from other taxon Old value
2022-10-17 New taxonomic reference entry Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022
2022-10-17 Species distribution update Wesołowska & Russell-Smith, 2022 Old value

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