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

Thyene australis G. W. Peckham & E. G. Peckham, 1903

SPECIES | ACCEPTED

LSID: urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036584

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Described:

Distribution: DR Congo, Uganda, Zimbabwe, South Africa

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

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Syntype: Muséum d'histoire naturelle de la ville de Genève (MHNG), Geneva, Switzerland 2m 2f (ARTO-0027958) of Thyene magdalenae - (Lessert, 1927)

Taxonomic References

Thyene australis Peckham & Peckham, 1903: 230, pl. 25, f. 6 (Dm) Original description

Thyene magdalenae Lessert, 1927: 444, f. 25 (Dmf) [urn:lsid:nmbe.ch:spidersp:036601]

Thyene australis Wesołowska & Cumming, 2008: 214, f. 164-170 (mf, S of Thyene magdalenae)

Thyene australis Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024: 139, f. 90A-D, 91A-B (mf)

References

Lessert, R. de (1927). Araignées du Congo (Premiere partie). Revue Suisse de Zoologie 34(17): 405-475. doi: 10.5962/bhl.part.117612 -- 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

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

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

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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
2024-09-06	New taxonomic reference entry	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024
2024-09-06	Species distribution update	Wiśniewski & Wesołowska, 2024	Old value